TY - BOOK ED - United Nations ED - United Nations Statistics Division. TI - Handbook on Poverty Statistics: Concepts Methods and Policy Use. SN - 9789211615067 U1 - 339.46'021 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Geneva PB - United Nations KW - Poverty KW - Statistics N1 - Special Project on Poverty Statistics. United Nations Statistics Division, December, 2005 N2 - The handbook provides a comprehensive review of the current practices of poverty measurement worldwide and sketches a road to improving country practices while achieving greater comparability within and across countries. It is hoped that the book will serve as the basis for formulating national, regional and international statistical programs to strengthen the capacity in member countries to collect and analyze data ER -