Expert Group on Poverty Statistics

Expert Group on Poverty Statistics: "The United Nations Statistical Commission, in its 28th Session of 1995, created a Group of Experts to study the statistical consequences of the World Summits of the United Nations on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994), on Social Development (Copenhagen, 1995) and the conditions of Women (Beijing, 1995) and to make proposals on the use of statistical information to follow up and monitor the objetives and goals approved in those summits. One outcome of this work was the recommendation, approved in the session of 1997, of a 'Minimum National Social Data Set' of indicators to be adopted by countries. "