The objectives of this paper are to overview existing data on Papua New Guinea and to highlight common issues and challenges associated with PNG data. Over 25 surveys, administrative and other databases were reviewed and listed along with its descriptions. Evaluation of some selected data is...

Evidence on the association between traditional poverty measures and health is widely available in the literature. However, the traditional ex-post poverty measures neglect many aspects of household welfare by overlooking the risk that a household faces in view of fewer resources available to...

ndia's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been hailed as one of the country's most creative social initiatives. Since the program was begun only recently (in 2004-05) there is a need to assess household access to this program and persistence of benefits to households not just...