Poverty Assessment Tools (Discussion Transcript)

This is a Summary for the Speakers Corner #13 that took place on August 8-10, 2006 on the subject of Poverty Assessment Tools.

Thierry van Bastelaer, the director of the Enterprise Development Group at the IRIS Center at the University of Maryland, hosted the August Speakers Corner on Poverty Assessment Tools, a program designed to develop and field test accurate and practical tools for measuring poverty levels of USAID microenterprise clients. The e-conference focused on the practicality of Poverty Assessment Tools, practitioners’ current experience in measuring poverty, the utility of poverty tools for practitioners, and how the tools can be implemented in practice.