More Than a Pretty Picture : Using Poverty Maps to Design Better Policies and Interventions

by Bedi, Tara; Coudouel, Aline; Simler, Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9780821369319
• ISBN10: 0821369318
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-03
• Publisher: World Bank

Summary

The allocation of resources and the design of policies tailored to local-level conditions require highly disaggregated information. Data on poverty at the local level is typically not available because most household surveys are not representative past the regional level. This volume aims to promote the effective use of Small Area Estimation poverty maps in policy making. It presents the range of policies and interventions which have been informed by poverty maps, focusing on the political economy of poverty maps and the key elements to their effective use by policy makers. The volume also looks at the future of poverty maps in terms of new techniques and new areas of application.

Table of Contents

Maps for Policy Making: Beyond the Obvious Targeting Applications	p. 3
Increasing the Impact of Poverty Maps	p. 23
Constructing and Using Poverty Maps for Policy Making: The Experience in Albania	p. 53
The Geography of Monetary Poverty in Bolivia: The Lessons of Poverty Maps	p. 67
The Poverty Mapping Exercise in Bulgaria	p. 90
To Use or Not to Use? Poverty Mapping in Cambodia	p. 125
Poverty Maps of Yunnan Province: Uses and Lessons for Scaling-Up in China	p. 143
The 1990 and 2001 Ecuador Poverty Maps	p. 153
Indonesia's Poverty Maps: Impacts and Lessons	p. 177
Poverty Maps and Public Policy: Lessons from Mexico	p. 188
The Poverty Mapping Application in Morocco	p. 208
Poverty Maps in Sri Lanka: Policy Impacts and Lessons	p. 225
Thailand's Poverty Maps: From Construction to Application	p. 241
Poverty Mapping: The Experience of Vietnam	p. 261
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