SAGA Progress Report - Technical Assistance

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SAGA Progress Report
April, 2003

II. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

    1. Uganda

Stephen Younger has worked closely with Ashie Mukungu and Ibrahim Kasirye to develop a formal proof that, using OLS estimates with expenditures as a dependent variable and then predicting poverty status based on those estimates, is more efficient than estimating a probit for poverty status. This point has long been conjectured in the literature, but never proven, and many researchers ignore it when estimating multivariate poverty profiles.

    2. South Africa

Paul Cichello, Ravi Kanbur, and Stephen Younger are working with DPRU and NIEP to prepare a two-week poverty and inequality workshop for faculty at South Africa’s historically disadvantaged universities. The workshop is scheduled for June23-July 4 and will involve about 25 participants, along with staff from Cornell, DPRU, and NIEP.

    3. Senegal

Leopold Sarr has been working at CREA for the past 4 months. He will remain there through the end of the August, 2003. He has assumed primary responsibility for managing and implementing the household survey that is being conducted by the Ministry of Education and CREA.

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