{"id":488398,"date":"2010-03-30T05:27:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T09:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/dgs\/jrc\/index.cfm?id=2820&dt_code=HLN&obj_id=465"},"modified":"2010-03-30T05:27:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T09:27:38","slug":"new-tool-to-measure-rural-poverty-robustness-assessment-by-the-jrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/488398","title":{"rendered":"New tool to measure rural poverty: robustness assessment by the JRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/dgs\/jrc\/site_images\/thumb_10570.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" alt=\"MPAT is a new framework for measuring rural poverty\" title=\"MPAT is a new framework for measuring rural poverty\" width=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p>\nScientists at the JRC&#8217;s Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) carried out an independent analysis and provided recommendations for additional improvements to the United Nations&#8217; International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT) framework and surveys. This analysis also statistically confirmed the suitability of using a thematic indicator, as opposed to a composite indicator, and verified the overall robustness of MPAT&rsquo;s architecture.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMPAT is a multi-purpose tool that can be used to assess and support rural poverty alleviation efforts in developing countries. This survey-based (household and village level) thematic indicator is primarily designed to support monitoring and evaluation, targeting, and prioritisation efforts at the local level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the JRC&#8217;s Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) carried out an independent analysis and provided recommendations for additional improvements to the United Nations&#8217; International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT) framework and surveys. This analysis also statistically confirmed the suitability of using a thematic indicator, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}