Project Approach

The objective of this project is to develop a poverty module of the MIRAGE model of world economy. This new version of MIRAGE will be continuously enhanced with disaggregation of households depending on the economic characteristics of the developing country and the quality of available household surveys. The goal is to develop a model with household disaggregation in two countries by mid-2010, five countries at the end of 2010, and ten countries in 2011.These countries will be selected based on their representation of world poverty and on the availability of household level data…