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Mapping Poverty in Afghanistan: Technical Report

dc.contributor.author World Bank Group
dc.date.accessioned 2019-05-16T20:16:07Z
dc.date.available 2019-05-16T20:16:07Z
dc.date.issued 2018-09
dc.description.abstract Afghanistan has been in protracted conflict for almost four decades, with direct implications on progress towards development objectives. This context of recurring episodes of violence and insecurity, economic and political instability, and the consequent displacement of populations within and outside the nation’s borders has important implications on the landscape of data and evidence available for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of interventions and programs, and their timeliness and relevance. Afghans represent the world’s largest and most protracted refugee population, with an estimated 3.5 million people currently living abroad as refugees for more than four decades. Given the large disparities in poverty incidence and high levels of inequality within Afghanistan, the knowledge of living standards at more disaggregated geographical levels of districts and nahias could help inform policy design and improve decision making at a sub-province level. Therefore, poverty mapping, which aims at estimating poverty incidence at levels lower than the household survey, was applied in Kabul and Herat provinces. This technical report describes the methodology and data used to produce the Kabul and Herat poverty maps and presents the resulting collection of poverty maps, the first of its kind for Afghanistan. The structure of the report is as follows. Section 2 outlines the poverty mapping methodology, specifically the small area estimation approach, applied in Afghanistan. Section 3 discusses the data sources and the various technical challenges faced with the datasets. Section 4 discusses the modeling phase, including model selection, model parameters, and assumptions. Section 5 presents the poverty maps at a district and nahia level, and section 6 concludes. The Annexes contains supporting data and analysis. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/742981557407427684/Mapping-Poverty-in-Afghanistan-Technical-Report
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31719
dc.language English
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject POVERTY MAP
dc.subject SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF POVERTY
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
dc.subject CENSUS DATA
dc.subject POVERTY RATE
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD WELFARE
dc.title Mapping Poverty in Afghanistan en
dc.title.subtitle Technical Report en
dc.type Report en
dc.type Rapport fr
dc.type Informe es
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.crossref.title Mapping Poverty in Afghanistan
okr.date.disclosure 2019-05-09
okr.doctype Economic & Sector Work
okr.doctype Economic & Sector Work :: Other Poverty Study
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/742981557407427684/Mapping-Poverty-in-Afghanistan-Technical-Report
okr.identifier.doi 10.1596/31719
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 090224b086ce09d5_3_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 30734883
okr.identifier.report 133403
okr.imported true en
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/742981557407427684/pdf/Mapping-Poverty-in-Afghanistan-Technical-Report.pdf en
okr.region.administrative South Asia
okr.region.country Afghanistan
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Poverty Lines
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Poverty Monitoring & Analysis
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Small Area Estimation Poverty Mapping
okr.unit Poverty GP SAR (GPV06)
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