Mapping Deprivations in Mauritania
Recent economic growth In Mauritania has helped reduce poverty, but spatial disparities in terms of both monetary welfare and access to services and opportunities remain. Designing policies and projects to improve living conditions requires localiz...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/884081599596652504/Mapping-Deprivations-in-Mauritania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34463 |
| Summary: | Recent economic growth In Mauritania has
helped reduce poverty, but spatial disparities in terms of
both monetary welfare and access to services and
opportunities remain. Designing policies and projects to
improve living conditions requires localized and updated
data not usually available from household surveys.
Deprivation mapping—a new spatial deprivation analysis
tool—uses administrative and geospatial settlement-level
data (the lowest administrative unit in our case study
Mauritania) to estimate settlement access deprivations
across 4 dimensions: social services, basic infrastructure,
opportunities, and exposure to weather/climate shocks.
Database and visualizations (map) highlight and rank each
settlement’s deprivation index, enhancing national data and
showing spatial differences in the depth, complexity, and
persistence of deprivations to inform policies and
prioritize investments. |
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