Poverty
By Kieron L Jones, on 15 July 2009
“The Global Poverty Mapping Project seeks to enhance current understanding of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions of where the poor live. Additionally, the project aims to assist policy makers, development agencies, and the poor themselves in designing interventions to reduce poverty.”
Project highlights include the ability to:
“… download the collection of subnational, spatially explicit, poverty data sets. These are available for selected proxy measures of poverty, at global and national scales. The global data are of varying resolution, but primarily coarse; the national data sets are of considerable higher-resolution.”
“… explore the data catalogs. These catalogs describe the variables available in each data set, and the underlying spatial, survey, and census data sets used to construct the integrated collection. Metadata records also provide details on source data and methods.”