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Nepal's 2010 Living Standards Survey is used to construct an easy-to-use scorecard that estimates the likelihood that a household has expenditure below a given poverty line. The scorecard uses 10 simple indicators that field workers can quickly collect and verify. Poverty scores can be computed on paper in the field in about ten minutes. The scorecard's bias and precision are reported for a range of poverty lines. The simple poverty scorecard is a practical way for pro-poor programs in Nepal to measure poverty rates, to track changes in poverty rates over time, and to target services.
This paper updates an earlier version that used data from 2003/4. Estimates from the two scorecards are compatible because they use the same definition of poverty, so users of the old scorecard can (and should) switch to the new one here.
This work was sponsored by Good Return, Plan International/Nepal, and Nirdhan Utthan Bank Limited. Data are from Nepal's Central Bureau of Statistics.
The simple poverty scorecard is the same as what Grameen Foundation (GF) calls the Progress out of Poverty Index®. The PPI® is a performance-management tool that GF promotes to help organizations achieve their social objectives more effectively.
Mark Schreiner, Microfinance Risk Management, L.L.C.
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