IASS Webinar 43: Advancing Poverty Mapping: Applications and Validation Using Modern Methods
| Date | 28 Aug 2024 |
| Time | 12:00 GMT+02:00 - 13:00 GMT+02:00 |
| Level of instruction | Intermediate |
| Instructor |
Paul Corral
Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas
Heath Henderson
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| Registration fee | |
The World Bank has collaborated with statistical agencies across the globe obtain poverty maps for over a quarter of a century. The World Bank’s guidelines to small area estimation illustrated updates to the tools and methods used at the institution for poverty mapping and to guide the work going forward. The webinar will present work that stems from what has been learned from the guidelines: 1) an application in Ghana which sought to improve the targeting of the country’s proxy means test, 2) an application in Senegal where a vulnerability map was relied on to provide quotas for the expansion of the social security registry, and 3) a design based validation of machine learning based poverty maps compared to CensusEB and Fay-Herriot poverty maps.
Instructors
About the instructor
Paul Corral is a Senior Economist with the Poverty & Equity Team as the team lead of the Vietnam program, based in Hanoi. He is also the global co-lead for the Poverty and Equity Policy Lab, a global initiative aimed at providing distributional analysis of policy reforms. Paul led the work on the Guidelines to Small Area Estimation for Poverty Mapping and has published in the areas of small area estimation, agricultural development, income diversification, and human capital accumulation. He holds a PhD in economics from American University and an MSc degree in agricultural economics from the University of Hohenheim.
About the instructor
Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas is an Economist working for The World Bank in the Southeast Asia team of the Poverty and Equity practice. His work in recent years has focused on developing tools for the targeting of social programs using spatial and mobile phone data, and creating protocols that expand eligibility to vulnerable households. He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Davis and an MSc degree in Economics from Universidad de los Andes.
About the instructor
Heath Henderson is an associate professor of economics at Drake University and an associate editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. He holds a PhD in economics and an MA in international politics from American University in Washington, DC. His research has been published in many of the leading journals in development studies, including Journal of Development Economics, World Development, and American Journal of Agricultural Economics, among many others. In addition, Heath has worked with a variety of international organizations, such as the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Inter-American Development Bank.