(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:

1. There are substantial disagreements on what appropriate macroeconomic policies are to reduce poverty most effectively, and
2. 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.

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