UNECE Seminar: "The way forward in poverty measurement"

Geneva, a great international town, these days hosts an UNECE conference «The way forward in poverty measurement». The event brings together a big group of statisticians to discuss the way forward in measurement of poverty. The programme is packed with quite interesting presentations from countries: «Multidimensional poverty and social isolation in Poland», «Providing international comparability of poverty assessments: experience and problems», «Within subjective poverty, multidimensional poverty and food security: a glance at the living conditions of households and children in Colombia»; as well as from international organizations: «The OECD approach to measure and monitor income poverty across countries», «World Bank Poverty Monitoring in Europe and Central Asia: High frequency data», «The measurement of poverty and social inclusion in the EU: achievements and further improvements (Eurostat)»

We will present out cutting edge work on data, three big blocks: (i) Capturing Intersecting Inequalities—Social Exclusion Index; (ii) Development that Lasts—Affordable Human Development Index; and (iii) Getting the best out of qualitative and quantitative data—micronarratives. all three are departing from the basic starting point-current poverty measures (however perfect and sophisticated they are) do not capture certain important things, like how sustainable and affordable is achieved development level? what are inequalities, and more important-intersecting inequalities-in our society? what stands behind certain numbers, can we get stories behind the figures?

UNDP cutting edge data work (Presentation for UNECE Workshop December 2013) from Mike Peleah

Innovative measurements: combining creativity with solid methodological ground

Last week I attended a training “Making an Impact with National Human Development Reporting”, organized by HDRO and BRC in Almaty. This was a great event, which brought together many people professionally dealing with measuring unmeasurable. I was speaking about tough job of combining creativity with solid methodological ground. The presentation outlines main methodological questions, which forms the solid background for creative measurement of issues, related to sustainable human development. The presentation included practical examples from Kyrgyzstan Local HDI and Municipal Capacity Index, Social Exclusion Index used for countries in region, Armenia Affordable Human Development Index proposal and 'Micronarratives' approach with examples from Montenegro.

Innovative measurements in NHDRs: combining creativity with solid methodological ground from Mike Peleah

Indicators, Human Development and .. Shrek

Have you ever tried to explain indicators and human development to .. kids? How soon did they fall asleep? Explaining complex things, like human development measurement, in simple language is hard but very necessary. During Summer University Course on Sustainable Human Development in CEU, Budapest we paid specific attention to measurement issues. This year we experimented and called for ... Shrek story to explain indicators.


Slides are available on-line