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Creating a poverty map for Azerbaijan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
'Poverty maps' - graphic representations of spatially disaggregated estimates of welfare - are increasingly used to geographically target scare resources. But their development in many low resource settings is hampered due to data constraints. Data on income or consumption are often unavailable or direct survey estimates for small areas yield ...
Baschieri, Angela, Falkingham, Jane
openaire   +2 more sources

Community Prosperity/Poverty (Prospov) Maps: Development and Usefulness

Journal of Poverty, 2023
The number of poor people and the total number of people in United States counties are strongly and non-linearly correlated, illustrated by power laws. The total number of people and the number of enterprises in U.S. counties and micropolitan statistical
D. F. Toerien
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Problem gambling within the context of poverty: a scoping review

International Gambling Studies, 2021
The burden of gambling problems is felt more strongly among people who experience poverty. A small but emerging body of research is developing with no identified reviews exploring the scope of the academic literature on the confluence of poverty and ...
Tara Hahmann   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Identifying and evaluating poverty using multisource remote sensing and point of interest (POI) data: A case study of Chongqing, China

, 2020
Poverty is a chronic worldwide dilemma that can seriously hamper human sustainable development, which is closely related to economic growth, environmental protection, ecological restoration, and sustainable utilization of resources.
Kaifang Shi   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Spatial Distribution of Poverty in Vietnam and the Potential for Targeting [PDF]

open access: yesPolicy Research Working Papers, 2002
The authors combine household survey and census data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam and evaluate the accuracy of geographically targeted antipoverty programs. First, they estimate per capita
Bob Baulch, Nicholas Minot
exaly   +2 more sources

Sustainable development goals and corporate strategy: A map of the field

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity, call on companies everywhere to advance sustainable development through the
Elías Domingo‐Posada   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The role of mobile broadband in poverty alleviation: a comparison of the effects of 3G and 4G network expansion in underdeveloped regions of Indonesia

Information Technology for Development
Alleviating poverty remains a significant global challenge necessitating effective interventions. While Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is widely acknowledged as a contemporary solution for addressing socioeconomic issues, the impact of ...
Kasmad Ariansyah   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Extreme energy poverty in the urban peripheries of Romania and Israel: Policy, planning and infrastructure

, 2020
Extreme energy poverty results from a mix of conditions including lack of access to a reliable and affordable grid-based energy source that meets basic domestic needs.
N. Teschner   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Regression trees for poverty mapping

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 2020
SummaryPoverty mapping is used to facilitate efficient allocation of aid resources, with the objective of ending poverty, the first of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Levels of poverty across small geographic domains within a country are estimated using a statistical model, and the resulting estimates displayed on a poverty map ...
Penelope Bilton   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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