Publication: Poverty Mapping in El Salvador
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2023-02
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2023-02
Author(s)
Robayo-Abril, Monica
Rude, Britta
Abstract
Poverty mapping, the spatial
representation and analysis of human wellbeing and poverty
indicators is becoming an increasingly important instrument
for investigating and discussing socioeconomic issues,
informing targeting efforts, and guiding the geographic
allocation of resources. One approach to addressing poverty
is the geographic approach. In the geographic approach, poor
people are identified and targeted through poverty maps.
Indeed, the geographical approach is one of the methods used
worldwide for targeting anti-poverty programs to reduce the
gaps in social protection coverage of poor and vulnerable
groups, and it has been widely implemented in several
countries around the world. In 2020, the Salvador's
General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses (DIGESTYC)
and the World Bank started working on the project ‘Poverty
mapping in El Salvador‘. The project is part of the
government and International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (IBRD) Programme, which is performed by experts
of the National Statistical Institute (NSI) and the World
Bank (WB). The main objective is to calculate the shares of
households living in moderate and extreme poverty at
disaggregated territorial levels (municipalities). Poverty
mapping enhances our understanding of the geographic
distribution of people living in poverty. This report
presents poverty maps at the municipality level based on the
Fay-Herriot model for small-area estimations.
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“Robayo-Abril, Monica; Rude, Britta. 2023. Poverty Mapping in El Salvador. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/39424 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”