1. Measuring Poverty An introduction with Excel Sajjad Zohir Lecture # 3 GED-ERG Training Workshop on Measuring Poverty 9 – 11 May 2015

2. What is it we want to achieve? Refresh our ability to walk through numbers on an Excel platform In the process know the basic poverty measures, and how to derive those with We also address several measures of inequality

3. Selected Poverty Measures Head Count Poverty Poverty Gap Index Squared Poverty Gap (Poverty Severity) Index Sen Index Sen-Shorrock-Thon Index Watts Index Time taken to exit Chronic Poverty Multidimensional poverty Gini Coefficient with Lorenz curve

4. Exercises on Excel Head Count Poverty Poverty Gap Index Squared Poverty Gap (Poverty Severity) Index Sen Index Gini Coefficient with Lorenz curve