More than a pretty picture : using poverty maps to design better policies and interventions / edited by Tara Bedi, Aline Coudouel, Kenneth Simler. Using poverty maps to design better policies and interventions - xviii, 286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm. - World Bank e-Library. .

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.

0821369318 0821369326 (electronic) 9780821369319 9780821369326 (electronic)

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Poverty--Maps--Case studies.
Poverty--Government policy--Case studies.

HC79.P6 / W65 2007

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