ICTs and decision making: findings from the Poverty Assessor

Claire Heffernan and Jun Yu

Development in Practice, 2010, vol. 20, issue 2, 287-296

Abstract: Pro-poor decision making depends on an understanding of the complexities and inter-relationships between household livelihood, demographic, and economic factors. This article describes the design and implementation of the Poverty Assessor, a software programme to assist practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in visualising the direct impacts on poverty of specific livelihood factors and events among populations living in poverty. The software enables users to upload their own data and profile households in relation to the national poverty line, by selecting from a range of demographic and livelihood indicators. The authors present findings from the programme, using a dataset from Bolivia.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/09614520903566491

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