Poverty Analysis Guideline
What is Poverty Analysis and what does it tell us?
Poverty analysis refers to approaches and methodologies that can be used to understand who the poor are, causes of their poverty and identifies ways of reducing poverty.
More specifically, poverty analysis:
- Helps us understand the causes and consequences of poverty
- Clarifies the interactions between various social processes and power dynamics that perpetuate poverty
- Identifies solutions in policy and practice that might break the cycle of persistent poverty
- Identifies categories of poor and vulnerable people
- Analyses the causes of poverty for specific people in a particular context
- Helps determine which dimensions of poverty are most relevant and susceptible to improvement
Helps prioritise sectors and areas for intervention.