Knowledge Externalities from Poverty Mapping in the European Union
The Poverty Mapping in the European Union (EU) project, an initiative of the World Bank and European Commission (EC) in cooperation with EU member states, has developed a set of high-resolution poverty maps by using information from recent national population censuses and household income...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23905 |
| Summary: | The Poverty Mapping in the
European Union (EU) project, an
initiative of the World Bank and
European Commission (EC) in
cooperation with EU member
states, has developed a set of
high-resolution poverty maps
by using information from
recent national population censuses
and household income
surveys to estimate the rates
of monetary poverty for small
geographic areas in EU member
states. This disaggregated
information can help guide
allocations of EU funds to the
areas in highest need as well
as inform decision making and
policies at the national and sub
-national levels in each of the
EU member states. This brief
outlines several of the key knowledge externalities
gained in the context of this project that
have improved the World Bank’s approach to
poverty mapping, including methodological innovations
in small area poverty estimation and
enhancements to the publicly available poverty
mapping software PovMap. |
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