The city poverty assessment: A primer
- Washington, D.C. The World Bank 2000
- vi, 37p.
- Bank Technical Paper No. 490 .
Discusses the concept of and tools used in city poverty assessments which provide information about a city?s poor, determinants of poverty, anti-poverty programmes, distribution of city finances, and they relation between city growth and poverty. It explains how to use the tools such as poverty maps, institutional maps, tracking the incidence of taxes and expenditures, and rapid service satisfaction surveys. A detailed step by step process of conducting the assessment is explained, it involves data collection, analysis and discussions with stakeholders.