Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

RETA 6088: Strengthening and Collection of Purchasing Power Parity Data in Selected Developing Member Countries Administration of Supplementary Grant Fund - Regional
Financed by Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

Project Summary

This TA involves research and capacity building to make the purchasing power parity more attuned to the realities of the poor households by adjusting the basket of commodities and channels through which price data collection is carried out. The proposed activities will be carried out as part of the International Comparison Program in the Asia Pacific which is essential for improving the methodologies for collecting and analyzing consistent and comparable data for the magnitude and incidence of poverty in the region.

The activities are as follows:

• review and preparation
• training for data collection and aggregation
• consultation and dissemination workshops

• TACR [ PDF: 38kb | 2 pages ]
• TA Report [ PDF: 55kb | 5 pages ]
• ICP Activities
• Poverty Workshop presentations, ADB, Manila, 21–22 November 2005

-  Poverty PPP Project, ICP Asia-Pacific: Introduction and Plan

-  Poverty Measurement: Methodology and Country Practices

-  PPPs for Regional and Global Poverty Measurement: Current Methodology, Issues and Options

-  A Framework for Poverty PPP Compilation: Proposed Methodology

-  Household Expenditure Survey Data for Poverty-PPPs: Weights for Aggregation, Compilation of Weights

-  Compilation of Poverty-PPPs: Methodology, Aggregation at the Basic Heading Level

-  Poverty PPPs: Other Issues and Discussion: Milestones for ICP Asia-Pacific

• Final Report of 2005 International Comparison Program in Asia and the Pacific: Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures [ PDF: 4,700kb | 231 pages ]
• Publication: Research Study on Poverty-Specific Purchasing Power Parities for Selected Countries in Asia and the Pacific