Researchers presented techniques for estimating poverty lines and indices

On the 8th of October, the FGSES Vice-Dean Professor Dorothée Boccanfuso and Professor Touhami Abdelkhalek led a research seminar on statistical inference for poverty lines and measures, within the University’s Campus in Rabat.

The seminar addressed the uncertainty in estimating poverty lines and its impact on poverty measurement. Professors Boccanfuso and Touhami introduced four methods: interval projection, optimization, and bootstrap techniques to construct confidence intervals for poverty lines and Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty indices