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What is poverty mapping? by Nikos Tzavidis

26-08-2014

The historical origins of poverty research and the more recent interest in estimating poverty at disaggregated geographical levels. Although the aim is not to present the 'best' way of measuring poverty, a review of the most popular poverty measures is provided. Poverty mapping is synonymous to small area estimation. A non-technical description of some popular small area models alongside the data requirements for estimating these models and for performing poverty mapping will be presented.