Identifying the Poor using CBMS
Presented by: Dr. Celia Reyes
Date of Presentation: 16 February 2010
Venue: Emilio C. Yap, Jr. Case Room A (St. La Salle 219), De La Salle University
About the Author
Celia M. Reyes is currently a Research Fellow at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies and conducts studies on poverty, develops econometric models, and supervises the maintenance and further improvement of the PIDS database and Geographical Information System-based socio-economic indicators. In addition, she is a Team Leader of the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) International Network and supervises the development of a community-based monitoring system that can be used to determine the poverty status of households in the Philippines and to formulate of poverty reduction action plans. She also coordinates the CBMS initiatives in 12 countries in Asia and Africa in this project.
Dr. Reyes earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in Econometrics. She has a B.Sc. in Statistics (Cum Laude) from the University of the Philippines and has attended workshops at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank.
Her current research activities are developing community-based monitoring systems for poverty monitoring and formulating poverty-reduction action plans, poverty profiling, analyzing government policies and programs related to poverty, and determining characteristics of chronic and transient poverty.
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