In this video series-2, Mark Schreiner, Director, Microfinance Risk Management, explains the methodology of Poverty Scoring and the challenges in implementing the system. Detailing the ground work behind poverty scoring Mark reveals that poverty scoring cards are based on quantitative data collected such as national expenditure surveys over a period of time. Further, he explains how every country’s score differs depending on the data collected in that region. Talking about the challenges, Mark outlines data veracity as the main challenge for poverty scoring card.