A Simple Poverty Scorecard for Bangladesh
Center for Social Development, Washington University in Saint Louis
(February 2006)
How poor are participants in development projects in Bangladesh? Based on data from a national survey, this paper presents an easy-to-use, objective poverty scorecard that uses 10 simple indicators to estimate the likelihood that a participant has expenditure of less than $1/person/day. Field workers can compute scores by hand in real time. With 90-percent confidence, estimated poverty rates are correct within +/–1.5 percentage points. The low-tech scorecard can help programs target services, track changes in poverty over time, and report on poverty rates.
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