Measuring Monetary Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa Region : Data Gaps and Different Options to Address Them
This paper identifies gaps in availability, access, and quality of household budget surveys in the Middle East and North Africa region used to measure monetary poverty and evaluates ways to fill these information gaps. Despite improving public acce...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/114681590710969392/Measuring-Monetary-Poverty-in-the-Middle-East-and-North-Africa-MENA-Region-Data-Gaps-and-Different-Options-to-Address-Them http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33843 |
| Summary: | This paper identifies gaps in
availability, access, and quality of household budget
surveys in the Middle East and North Africa region used to
measure monetary poverty and evaluates ways to fill these
information gaps. Despite improving public access to
household budget surveys, the availability and timeliness of
welfare data in the Middle East and North Africa region is
poor compared to the rest of the world. Closing the data gap
requires collection of more HBS data in more countries and
improving access to data where it exists. However, when
collection of consumption data is not possible, a variety of
other second-best strategies can be employed. Using
imputation methods can help to measure monetary poverty.
Constructing non-monetary poverty and asset indexes from
less robust surveys, using non-traditional surveys such as
phone surveys, and "big data" -- administrative
records, social networks and communications data, and
geospatial data -- can help substitute for, or complement
data from existing traditional survey data. |
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