Timor-Leste Poverty Assessment : Poverty in a New Nation - Analysis for Action, Volume 2. Technical Report

Timor-Leste has achieved enormous progress in rehabilitating its economy, reconstructing its infrastructure, reintegrating its refugees and building the key elements of a sustainable political process in an environment of internal peace. It now faces many challenges of nation-building and of overcoming the deprivation affecting the lives of the poor. This report written in two volumes lays out the challenge of poverty reduction in Timor-Leste. It is based on the first nationally-representative household survey collected during August to December 2001. The report's objectives are modest: to set a baseline for the new country on the extent, nature and dimensions of poverty; and to assist the decision making of the newly elected government and its efforts in formulating, implementing and monitoring its Poverty Reduction Strategy. The overall objective was not to lay out the elements of poverty strategy but rather to present evidence on the basis of which the Timorese can define and refine their own poverty reduction strategy. The key challenge lies now in formulating a poverty monitoring plan that includes both quantitative and participatory elements, and lays out the institutional arrangement for data analysis and reporting to ensure that the collected data inform policy making and program design.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington DC 2003-05
Subjects:	POVERTY REDUCTION, ABSOLUTE POVERTY, RURAL POVERTY, HUMAN CAPITAL, CAPACITY BUILDING, REFUGEES, HEALTH CARE DELIVERY, SOCIAL SERVICES, VULNERABLE GROUPS, SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, FOOD SECURITY, ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE, AGE DISTRIBUTION, CHILD LABOR, CHILD WELFARE, CORRUPTION, CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION, DETERMINANTS OF POVERTY, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DISADVANTAGED GROUPS, DISSEMINATION, DROPOUT, ECOLOGICAL ZONES, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC STATUS, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT STATUS, EQUIVALENCE SCALES, FOOD SHORTAGE, GEOGRAPHIC AREAS, GOVERNMENT POLICIES, GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, HEALTH, HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION, HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE, HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY, HOUSEHOLD HEAD, HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS, HOUSEHOLD SIZE, HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, ILLITERACY, INCOME, INEQUALITY, INFORMATION SYSTEM, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, INTRAHOUSEHOLD TRANSFERS, LABOR FORCE, LABOR MARKETS, LAND SIZE, LAND VALUE, LIVING CONDITIONS, LIVING STANDARDS, LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT, LIVING STANDARDS SURVEY, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL, NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN, NATIONAL POVERTY, NATIONAL PRIORITIES, NGO, PARTICIPATION RATES, PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION, POLICY DECISIONS, POOR, POPULATION GROUPS, POVERTY ASSESSMENT, POVERTY LINES, POVERTY MEASURE, POVERTY MEASUREMENT, POVERTY MEASURES, POVERTY PROFILE, POVERTY RATES, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY, PPA, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PURCHASING POWER, PURCHASING POWER PARITY, QUALITY CONTROL, REGIONAL POVERTY, RURAL, RURAL AREA, RURAL AREAS, SAMPLE SIZE, SAVINGS, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, SCHOOL CHILDREN, SCHOOL-AGE POPULATION, SCHOOLING, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SELF-EMPLOYMENT, SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS, SOCIAL WELFARE, TETANUS, UNEMPLOYMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, URBAN AREA, URBAN AREAS, URBAN CENTERS, URBAN HOUSEHOLDS, WAGE EMPLOYMENT POVERTY REDUCTION,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/05/7320218/timor-leste-poverty-assessment-poverty-new-nation-analysis-action-vol-2-2-technical-report https://hdl.handle.net/10986/14817
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