[PDF] Lsms Working Paper eBook

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Page : 372 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Developing countries
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"The LSMS Working Paper series was started to disseminate intermediate products from the LSMS. Publications in the series include critical reviews covering different aspects of the LSMS data collection program and reports on improved methodologies for using LSMS survey data. More recent publications recommend specific survey, questionnaire, and data processing designs and demonstrate the breadth of policy analysis that can be carried out using LSMS survey data". - homepage, viewed Apr. 1, 2009.

Author : Raylynn Oliver
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821339343

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Living Standards Measurement Survey Working Paper No. 130.This document presents a set of Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) questionnaires that have been developed for use in the Russian-speaking countries of the former Soviet Union. The questionnaires are available in English and Russian, as well as in an electronic format. The document describes in detail how to modify the questionnaires for use in any specific country. The author guides the questionnaire writer through the modification process, illustrating the important aspects of LSMS surveys, the translation and field-testing procedures, and a section-by-section description of the types of modification that are likely to be required to suit particular goals and circumstances.Also available in Russian : (ISBN 0-8213-3935-4) / Stock No. 13935

Author : Margaret E. Grosh
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
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This manual explains the planning process, technical procedures, and standards used in Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS) household surveys, including what these procedures entail, why they are used, and how they can be implemented. It provides a factual description of different procedures and standards as well as their purpose and an explanation of their distinctions. The report offers explicit instructions, along with examples of ways LSMS survey procedures have been implemented in different countries. Although the lessons presented here are derived from LSMS surveys, many of them are applicable to surveys in general, and especially to those that are complex or especially concerned with quality control. Topics covered in this manual include technical aspects of questionnaire formatting and testing, methods of implementing sample design, and fieldwork and data management procedures that have been successful. The report sketches ideas about which directions to pursue in analyzing data, presents a brief description of how to assess local statistical capacity, and includes sample work plans and budgets to give surveyors estimates of how long each process will take.

Author : Christopher Thomas Saunders
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Page : 88 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
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This document contains three papers which give an overview of the major LSMS objectives, efforts, and some problems which may be encountered. The first, Household Surveys as an Instrument for Assessing Living Standards in Developing Countries, considers the use of household surveys as one instrument among many for providing the information needed for planning and evaluating social and economic development. It focuses on an assessment of the areas in which these surveys are the best way of eliciting information and on how to improve use of these surveys. The second paper, Selected Problems in the Implementation of Household Surveys, highlights some of the problem areas, specifically the concept of a household, the measurement of income and expenditures, the concept of employment, the design of surveys, and the tabulation and analysis of results. The third contains the Proceedings of the LSMS Expert Group Meeting, February 25-29, l980.

Author : Margaret E. Grosh
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821333754

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World Bank Discussion Paper No. 302. Presents an alternative way of financing development in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to address the shortcomings of past investment lending. This study discusses sector investment programs (SIPs) as an alternative way of financing development in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to address the shortcomings of past investment lending in the region. The report examines the nature and features of SIPs by drawing on the limited experience with such operations in a number of coutries to date, including Bangladesh, Mozambique, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Zambia. A SIP is distinguished by its comprehensive sector coverage, by close coordination among all parties, including stakholders and donors, and by the requirement that it be formulated under local ownership and management

Author : Martin Ravallion
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821342268

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A poverty line helps focus the attention of governments and civil society on the living conditions of the poor. This paper offers a critical overview of alternative approaches to setting poverty lines. In reviewing the methods found in practice, the paper tries to throw light on, and go some way toward resolving, ongoing debates about poverty measurement, emphasizing those debates which would appear to have greatest bearing on policy discussions.