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Poverty and social impact
analysis
Poverty and
social impact analysis (PSIA) implies an analysis of the
distributional impact of policy reforms on the well-being or welfare
of different stakeholder groups, with particular focus on the poor
and vulnerable. PSIA has an important role in the elaboration and
implementation of poverty reduction strategies in developing
countries. It promotes evidence-based policy choices and fosters
debate on policy reform options. PSIA helps to:
- Analyze the link between policy
reforms and their poverty and social impacts
- Consider trade-offs among reforms on
the basis of their distributional impacts
- Enhance the positive impacts of
reforms and minimize their adverse impacts
- Design mitigating measures and risk
management systems
- Assess policy reform risks
- Build country ownership and capacity
for analysis
PSIA is a
systematic analytic approach, not a separate product. It starts with
the ex-ante analysis of expected poverty and social impacts of
policy reforms, with a view to helping to design the reforms. PSIA
then advocates monitoring results during implementation. Finally,
where possible, PSIA suggests evaluating ex-post the poverty and
social impacts of reforms.
This website was conceived as a forum for interaction and a
tool for disseminating experience. We invite you to send material,
links, references and suggestions to psia@worldbank.org. The
site will be updated as we gain experience.
The website presents information in the
following categories in the left-hand navigational menu :
- PSIA in the World Bank:
describes the activities
undertaken in the World Bank to build and disseminate knowledge on
PSIA
- Approach: presents the draft framework developed by the
World Bank to carry out PSIA of reforms
- Tools and
methods: presents a range of
tools and techniques to undertake the various steps of PSIA
- Country
experience: describes some of
the analysis carried out for specific countries and reforms
- Related PSIA
work: includes comments on
the PSIA approach and links to relevant sources
- Resources: includes references and translations of PSIA
material to other languages
- Training activities and
materials: includes useful
presentations and information from past events
The World Bank has
developed a PSIA User's Guide that is intended for practitioners
undertaking PSIA in developing countries. It introduces the main
concepts underlying PSIA, presents key elements of good practice
approaches to PSIA, and highlights some of the main constraints and
operational principles for PSIA. This User's Guide highlights some
of the key tools that practitioners may find useful to analyze
poverty and social impacts of policy reforms, but does not aim to be
comprehensive in coverage. It is available in several languages in
the box to the right.
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