Catalog of Learning Activities

WBI Program: Growth and Crisis
Activity Title: Impact of the Financial Crisis on Poverty: Advanced Poverty Measurement and Analysis E-Learning Course
Activity ID: GCR10-00-055
   

Contact Info

Task Manager: Hippolyte L. Fofack
Email: Hfofack@worldbank.org
Task Admin: Vasumathi L Rollakanty
Email: Vrollakanty@worldbank.org

Date and Cost

Start Date: November 30 2009
End Date: December 19 2009
Cost: Fees Apply

Description

Over a period of three weeks, this ten-session on-line course on poverty analysis will emphasize the measurement and interpretation of poverty dynamics, or how poverty changes over time, and the concept of vulnerability to poverty.

Objective

Learn to measure and interpret poverty dynamics in a clear and coherent way, and how to assess the implications of the global economic and financial crisis on poverty. Upon completion, participants will be able to measure and interpret poverty using household survey data, merge panel datasets and compute poverty dynamic measures such as the extent of persistent poverty or the movement of households across quintiles, critically assess the value of panel data, and distinguish poverty from vulnerability and measure and interpret the latter. Participants will also have a better understanding of the transmission channels from growth to poverty.

Topic(s)

Macroeconomics and Economic Growth

Participants

Audience: Staff of government statistics offices, Government officials from line ministries and advisory units staff, University faculty

Target Country(s): World Wide

Site Information

Delivery Modes: Electronic Learning (60 Hours)
Locations:Online, World Wide
 Languages: English