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A Simple Poverty Scorecard for Ethiopia
10 Apr 2009, Schreiner, M. & Chen, S.
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Using poverty scoring for targeting pro-poor programs

This paper presents a simple poverty scorecard for Ethiopia that can be used to estimate:

Likelihood that a household has expenditure below a given poverty line;
Poverty rate of a group of households at a point in time;
Changes in the poverty rate of a group of households between two points in time.

The scorecard is built with a sub-sample of data from Ethiopia’s 2004/5 Household Income, Consumption and Expenditure Survey. The scorecard is:

Useful for targeting;
Inexpensive to use;
Can be understood by non-specialists;
Designed to be practical for local pro-poor organizations who want to improve their social performance management.

For targeting, programs can use the scorecard's results to select a cut-off that fits their values and mission. The design of the scorecard focuses on transparency and ease-of-use. It uses eleven indicators that are inexpensive to collect and straightforward to verify. The design helps managers understand and trust scoring, and allows non-specialists to generate scores quickly while in the field.

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07 Jul 2009
A simple poverty scorecard for Ethiopia

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Journal Volume/Pages:
98

Publisher(s):
Microfinance Risk Management, L.L.C.