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

If you wish to preorder this title please complete our order form and fax it to +1-703-661-1501. The allocation of resources and the design of policies tailored tolocal-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. Itpresents the range of policies and interventions which have beeninformed 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.World Bank Staff is the author of 'More Than a Pretty Picture Using Poverty Maps to Design Better Policies and Interventions', published 2007 under ISBN 9780821369319 and ISBN 0821369318.