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From EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
The maps included in "Where the Poor Are" show how advances in data collection and technology can be used to put poverty-related indicators into meaningful visual context.
The book includes maps on the global and continental distribution of infant mortality and hunger, the distribution of resource inequality in five sub-Saharan countries, and poverty rates in Viet Nam, Nicaragua and Bolivia, to name just a few.
According to Marc Levy, Associate Director for Science Applications at CIESIN, these maps and data sets help broaden the understanding of the relationship between poverty and geography--beyond the more common urban-rural framework.
"The revolutionary advances in poverty mapping have made it possible to be precise about things we used to only generalize about," says Levy.
Experts at CIESIN and the World Bank hope that the Atlas will raise awareness of poverty maps' potential, and inspire further progress in their development and use.
Where the Poor Are: An Atlas of Poverty is a product of the Poverty Mapping Project at CIESIN, with support from The World Bank Japan Policy and Human Resource Development Fund.
The project involved a close collaboration with the Development Economics Data Group and the Development Economics Research Group at the World Bank and colleagues at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the Population Council, the State University of New York at Albany, and ORC-Macro.
The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), a member of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, works at the intersection of the social, natural, and information sciences.
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Posted on October 2, 2006 09:29 AM
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