Advanced training on universal poverty measurement

This training was facilitated by ACEIR affiliate Prof. David Gordon from the University of Bristol and built on a previous course on advanced poverty research methods. It covered briefly both the theory and the practice of creating a universal poverty measure and drew on Townsend's theory of poverty as relative deprivation as scientific in that it can, at least theoretically, be used to measure poverty in all societies at all points in history. The training spanned the measurement theory, analytical framework, and the practical steps involved in constructing a suitable, valid, reliable, and additive poverty indicator.