Where are Iraq’s Poor? : Mapping Poverty in Iraq

Vishwanath, Tara; Sharma, Dhiraj; Krishnan, Nandini; Blankespoor, Brian

Where are Iraq’s Poor? : Mapping Poverty in Iraq

2015

Vishwanath, Tara | Sharma, Dhiraj | Krishnan, Nandini | Blankespoor, Brian

Measuring poverty and tracking it over time is an important prerequisite to national economic planning. Absence of official data on household expenditure or poverty line hampered the ability of Iraqi policymakers to understand the extent of the problem, analyze their causes, and devise appropriate policies. Iraq household socioeconomic survey (IHSES) 2006-07 was the first survey of its kind since 1988 to cover all 18 governorates. The survey collected rich information on income, expenditure, employment, housing, education, health, and other socioeconomic indicators. Building on the experience of the first IHSES survey and using international best practice on sampling and questionnaire design and survey implementation, the second round of IHSES was fielded in 201-/13. To fill the data gap, a larger survey was designed to collect information on correlates of household welfare like demographic characteristics, education, occupation, housing, and assets and estimate small-area poverty rates using projection methods. This report presents results from the exercise, the first of its kind for Iraq. Poverty mapping not only provides a visual representation of poverty at subnational levels, it also reveals pockets of poverty and islands of prosperity where they exist. This knowledge is useful to inform decisions on policy design and targeting of development projects and programs.

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Mots clés AGROVOC

access to markets accounting agricultural land budget consumption drinking water drought equity expenditure food food consumption household budget household consumption household expenditure household income household surveys housing immunization income instrument investment irrigation local government markets nutrition poverty poverty alleviation poverty reduction returns rural areas sanitation social protection spatial distribution targeting war

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World Bank, Washington, DC

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Poor; Shares; Security; Poverty mapping methodology; Labor markets; Poverty reduction strategy; Household welfare; Contract; Child mortality; Headcount rate; Check; Rural; Household characteristics; Poverty line; Poverty map; Incidence of poverty; Poverty rate; Poverty maps; Rural area; Measuring poverty; Poverty incidence; Transactions; Dummy variable; Goods; Regions; Household heads; Dummy variables; Measures; Maternal mortality; National poverty lines; Household; Poor households; Poverty assessment; Spatial pattern; Clean water; Poor area; Household level; Inequality; Contract enforcement; Household head; Welfare program; Standard errors; Food expenditure; Poor people; National poverty line; Empirical question; Autonomous region; Human development; Household size; Poor persons; Durable assets; Durable goods; Equipments; Employment status; Poverty mapping; Investment fund; Mobile phone; National poverty rate; Poor areas; Trust fund; Market; Correlates of poverty; Household survey; Reserves; Poverty rates; Poverty headcount rate; Caloric intake; Information system; Tax; Poverty indicators; Oil reserve; Widespread poverty; Welfare measures; Access to services; Interest; Share; Regional poverty lines; Durable; Checks; Poverty mapping exercise; Regional dummy; Counterfactual; Household members; Poverty headcount rates; Reserve; Poverty status; Living standard; Determinants of poverty; Regional models; Region; Decline in poverty; Decline in poverty rates; Regional poverty; Options; Poverty lines; National poverty; Poverty estimates

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CC BY 3.0 IGO. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/. World Bank

Type

Report; Economic & Sector Work; Economic & Sector Work :: Poverty Assessment

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24746796/iraq’s-poor-mapping-poverty-iraq http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22351

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