More than a pretty picture [electronic resource] : using poverty maps to design better policies and interventions / edited by Tara Bedi, Aline Coudouel, Kenneth Simler.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2007.Description: xviii, 286 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 26 cmOther title:
  • Using poverty maps to design better policies and interventions
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.5/561 22
LOC classification:
  • HC79.P6 W65 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Poverty maps for policy making: beyond the obvious targeting applications -- Increasing the impact of poverty maps : beyond the technical exercise -- Constructing and using poverty maps for policy making : the Albania experience -- The geography of monetary poverty in Bolivia : lessons from poverty maps -- Poverty map country application : Bulgaria -- To use or not to use? : poverty mapping experience in Cambodia -- Poverty maps of Yunnan Province : potential usages and lessons for scaling-up in China -- The 1990 and 2001 Ecuador poverty maps -- Indonesia's poverty maps : impacts and lessons -- Poverty maps and public policy : lessons from Mexico -- Poverty map country application : Morocco -- Sri Lanka poverty map : policy impacts and lessons -- Thailand's poverty map : from construction to application -- Poverty mapping : experience from Vietnam.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Poverty maps for policy making: beyond the obvious targeting applications -- Increasing the impact of poverty maps : beyond the technical exercise -- Constructing and using poverty maps for policy making : the Albania experience -- The geography of monetary poverty in Bolivia : lessons from poverty maps -- Poverty map country application : Bulgaria -- To use or not to use? : poverty mapping experience in Cambodia -- Poverty maps of Yunnan Province : potential usages and lessons for scaling-up in China -- The 1990 and 2001 Ecuador poverty maps -- Indonesia's poverty maps : impacts and lessons -- Poverty maps and public policy : lessons from Mexico -- Poverty map country application : Morocco -- Sri Lanka poverty map : policy impacts and lessons -- Thailand's poverty map : from construction to application -- Poverty mapping : experience from Vietnam.

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