Measurements of Poverty and Inequality. Evaluation of Poverty and Inequality Reduction Policies

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

6

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Applied Economics

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

2 year, 1, 2 module

Instructor

Kotyrlo, Elena

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course is aimed at preparing students for independent research activities. Its particular goals include introducing students into the methodology of measuring poverty and inequality, training them to critically evaluate reliability and adequacy of the statistical data, as well as comparability of different statistical sources, providing them a systematic understanding of the relations between poverty, inequality and economic development, and introducing into a range of quantitative methods of evaluation of poverty and inequality reduction policies. This course relies on previous knowledge of students in economics, political and social theories, and statistics. During the course students will have an opportunity to apply their understanding of the demographic and economic situation in certain countries and regions, as well as of the global demographic and economic trends to the analysis of social processes in different parts of the world.

Learning Objectives

• The successful development of the course will enable students to improve their general skills of oral homework essays and the ability to participate in a discussion on a given topic in English. They will im-prove their critical reading and critical thinking skills and develop abilities to assess reports and academic papers, analyze legal documents, evaluate and interpret statistical data seeing limitations and advantages of one statistical sources over others. As a result of mastering the discipline, the students are expected:  to have a deeper knowledge of well-being, poverty, inequality and quality of life measure-ment;  to be able to estimate, interpret and compare the most popular poverty and inequality indica-tors;  acquire practical skills of analytical work on the study of poverty and inequality at national and international level;  to be able to perform comprehensive analysis of poverty and inequality based on the popula-tion survey data and using one of the common statistical packages.  to possess knowledge on quantitative methods of evaluation of poverty and inequality re-duction policies.  to be able to apply methods of assessing policies of poverty and inequality reduction for a specific socio-economic process under study.  to gain experience of working with STATA, which allow applying methods of poverty and inequality measurement and evaluating policies of their reduction.

Expected Learning Outcomes

•  acquire practical skills of analytical work on the study of poverty and inequality at national and international level
•  to be able to apply methods of assessing policies of poverty and inequality reduction for a specific socio-economic process under study
•  to be able to estimate, interpret and compare the most popular poverty and inequality indica-tors;
•  to be able to estimate, interpret and compare the most popular poverty and inequality indica-tors;  to possess knowledge on quantitative methods of evaluation of poverty and inequality reduction policies.  to be able to apply methods of assessing policies of poverty and inequality reduction for a specific socio-economic process under study
•  to gain experience of working with STATA, which allow applying methods of poverty and inequality measurement and evaluating policies of their reduction
•  to have a deeper knowledge of well-being, poverty, inequality and quality of life measure-ment
•  to possess knowledge on quantitative methods of evaluation of poverty and inequality reduction policies

Course Contents

• Introduction to the course. Poverty and inequality: basic concepts
• Measuring poverty
• Inequality measures
• Policies of reduction poverty and inequality and their estimates
• Policies monitoring and evaluation

Assessment Elements

• Активность
  Current control in the form of solving problems on measurement of poverty/inequality, reduction policy and its impact evaluation based on the population survey data and using Stata package
• Активность
  Current control in the form of solving problems on measurement of poverty/inequality, reduction policy and its impact evaluation based on the population survey data and using Stata package
• Эссе
  An essay summarizing implementation of meas-urement of poverty/inequality, reduction policy and its impact evaluation in one of the recom-mended articles or other sources
• Тест
  Final examination in the form of test with multi-ple choice questions

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  0.15 * Активность + 0.15 * Активность + 0.4 * Тест + 0.3 * Эссе

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Handbook on impact evaluation : quantitative methods and practices, Khandker, S. R., 2010

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• A guide to modern econometrics, Verbeek, M., 2012

Authors

• KOTYRLO ELENA STANISLAVOVNA
• Васанова Ольга Львовна