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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Poverty Mapping"”.
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Poverty mapping in Namibia
The concept of poverty is interpreted and understood in different ways, but when it comes to actually measuring poverty, several difficulties arise which can lead to different interpretation. This dissertation draws its analysis from "Living conditions in Namibia: a household income and expenditure …
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Poverty mapping : what can we really learn?
I examine the problem of poverty mapping. I explain the difficulties of small area estimation arising from data sparseness and argue that any attempt to overcome this fundamental problem has to take the form of a conditional homogeneity assumption.
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Access to Water: Advancement of Multidimensional, Multiscalar, and Participatory Methods of Measurement in the Global South
This project deploys a modified Water Poverty Index (WPI) in villages reconstructed after the 2004 tsunami in southeastern India. While previous measurements of access to water have advanced understandings of waterscape complexities, this modified WPI improves past efforts and deconstructs some of …
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PRO-POOR PLANNING: A Tool for Strategic Territorial Planning and a Conceptual Framework Drawn from Studies in Colombia and Costa Rica
… to comprehend and visualize the phenomenon of poverty at inter- and intra-urban levels, which compromises their ability to inform decision-makers on the effects on poverty reduction of the land-based actions they design, implement and monitor. This challenge was addressed from conceptual, …