More than a pretty picture [[electronic resource] ] : using poverty maps to design better policies and interventions / / edited by Tara Bedi, Aline Coudouel, Kenneth Simler
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| Titolo: |
More than a pretty picture [[electronic resource] ] : using poverty maps to design better policies and interventions / / edited by Tara Bedi, Aline Coudouel, Kenneth Simler
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.5/561 |
| Soggetto topico: | Poverty - Maps |
| Poverty - Government policy | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
BediTara <1978->
CoudouelAline
SimlerKenneth
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 loo |
| Titolo autorizzato: | More than a pretty picture |
| ISBN: | 1-281-11319-0 |
| 9786611113193 | |
| 0-8213-6932-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452060603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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