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POVERTY AND SOCIAL IMPACT
ASSESSMENT (PSIA)
(Formerly Referred to on this
Website as Exante Poverty Impact Assessment (EPIAM))
The New Rules for Global
Finance Coalition calls for the development of some standards, methodologies and
tools that can be used for the poverty and social impact assessment in developing countries.
The rationale to develop
such standards, methodologies, and tools is based on two related facts:
there are
substantial disagreements on what appropriate macroeconomic policies are to
reduce poverty most effectively, and
there are no
agreed standards, methodologies, or tools to assess the impact of macroeconomic
policies on poverty.
Based on overall positive
replies from top researchers in academia and senior staff members at some
international organizations (i.e., IFPRI, ILO, IMF, and World Bank) to a draft
of a Strategy Paper, the Coalition is currently in the process of contacting all
international and many national developmental institutions for a formal
commitment to work together on next steps to develop some standards,
methodologies and tools that can be used for poverty and social impact assessments in developing countries. Think tanks, NGOs,
and researchers in academia are also welcome to join the project.
The Coalition welcomes
your suggestions, comments, and questions. Please contact David Evans (IDS,
Sussex University), the PSIA project director.
H.D.Evans@ids.ac.uk
New Rules-PSIA-Project
c/o Missionary Oblates of
Mary Immaculate
1470 Irving Street, NW
Washington, DC 20010, USA
For the latest
information, please take a look at the Newsletters (below).
I. Current and Recent Activities
◄
A Review of Ex-ante Poverty Impact Assessments of Macroeconomic Policies in
Cameroon and Ghana. African Development Bank Economic Research Working
Paper No 86 written by Nicholas Adamtey and Vitus Azeem, Integrated Social
Development Centre (ISODEC) and Samuel Fambon, University of Yaoundé II. This
paper is a summarized and merged version of two extensive country case studies
of experiences with ex-ante poverty impact assessments of macroeconomic policies
in Cameroon and Ghana. July 2006
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Workshop
on
“Experiences with Ex-ante Poverty Impact
Assessments of Macroeconomic Policies in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Ghana,
the Philippines, and Nepal” March 13 – 16, 2006 in Washington, DC.
This 4-day workshop will be the next step to bring the case studies to
completion. The purposes for the workshop include bringing the research teams
together to enable them to learn from one another; to meet with other experts in
the field of ex ante poverty impact analysis of macroeconomic policies—from the
PSIA network, the World Bank, the IMF, and NGOs with a PSIA focus; and to refine
their papers and prepare them for a public seminar and eventual publication.
Financial support has been is being provided by the Canadian
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and by the British Department
for International Development (DfID).
◄Analysing
Macro-Poverty Linkages: Special Theme Issue of the Development Policy Review:
The analysis of macro-poverty linkages has emerged
as an important but contentious area of national and international
policy-making. Over the last few years, considerable progress has been made in
understanding the linkages between macroeconomic policies and poverty reduction,
as well as in developing evaluation tools and methodologies useful in conducting
ex-ante PSIAs of macro policies.
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◄International
Research Competition on Exante Poverty Impact Assessment of Macroeconomic
Policies
The
New Rules for Global Finance Coalition launched an international research
competition on issues related to the Poverty and Social Impact Assessments (PSIAs) in low-income countries. Submissions were due by
May 31, 2004. The research competition was won by the Institute for Policy
Research and Development in Nepal. Please see Newsletter #6 for further details.
◄PSIA
Case Studies
The
New Rules for Global Finance Coalition is currently carrying out five case
studies on the lessons from experiences with Poverty and Social Impact
Assessments. Please see Newsletter #5 for further details.
◄International
Workshop: Tools for the Exante Poverty Impact Assessment of Macroeconomic
Policies (EPIAM)
October 14-15, 2003 in Washington, DC
This workshop was jointly organized by
the International Food Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI) and a consortium of civil society organizations: the
European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD), the New Rules for Global
Finance Coalition, and Oxfam International.
II. PSIA Newsletter
Newsletter #6 (July 2004) and
Update on PSIA Leadership (August 2004)
Newsletter #5 (April 2004)
Newsletter #4 (December 2003)
Newsletter #3 (September 2003)
Newsletter #2 (March 2003)
Newsletter #1 (November 2002)
III. PSIA Research
Executive Summary
Main Part of Strategy Paper
Appendix 1: Debates on the Impact of Specific Macroeconomic Policies on Poverty
Appendix 2: Joint World Bank and IMF Concept Note on Social Impact Analysis of
Macroeconomic and Structural Policies (April 26, 2001)
Appendix 3: Department for International Development (DFID): Terms of Reference
(Working Draft) on Piloting Social
Impact Analysis of Stabilisation and Adjustment Programmes (July 26, 2001)
Bibliography of the Strategy Paper
You
can also download the
Whole Strategy Paper in one PDF-file (994 KB).
Correction/Update (of August 2003):
Due to
recent developments in the modeling of the Millennium Institute's T21
model, the T21 is actually a very useful tool to assess different
development strategies. Furthermore, the Millennium Institute is in the
process of adding a monetary sector to the model, which will allow for
an even better impact assessment of macroeconomic policies on poverty.
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