Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- PART One Applications and Lessons -- 1 Poverty Maps for Policy Making: Beyond the Obvious Targeting Applications -- Building Awareness, Changing Perceptions, Opening a New Dialogue on Poverty -- Revisiting Old Ideas, Exploring New Options -- Designing Interventions Tailored to Local Needs -- Strengthening Accountability -- Promoting Evidence-Based Decision Making by Building Capacity -- Limitations -- Conclusions -- References -- 2 Increasing the Impact of Poverty Maps -- Step 1: Defining the Scope of the Mapping Exercise -- Step 2: Building Support -- Step 3: Creating Demand -- Step 4: Overcoming Challenges, Conflicts, and Tensions -- Step 5: Establishing Institutional Arrangements -- Step 6: Addressing Data and Software Issues -- Step 7: Producing the Poverty Maps and Testing Their Validity -- Step 8: Distributing Poverty Mapping Products -- Step 9: Supporting Users and Providing Follow-Up -- Step 10: Engaging External Development Partners -- Annex 2.1 Key Counterparts in the Poverty Mapping Process -- PART Two Country Studies -- 3 Constructing and Using Poverty Maps for Policy Making: The Experience in Albania -- Preparation and Dissemination of the Poverty Maps -- Awareness and Policy Outcomes -- Lessons Learned -- Conclusion: Increasing and Sustaining the Policy Impact of Poverty Maps -- Notes -- References -- 4 The Geography of Monetary Poverty in Bolivia: The Lessons of Poverty Maps -- The Demand for Poverty Maps in Bolivia -- Data and Methodology -- Policy Lessons from the Monetary Poverty Mapping Exercise -- More Than a Technical Exercise: Uses and Impact of the Monetary Poverty Map -- A Challenging Political and Institutional Context -- Weak Effort in Dissemination and Outreach -- Lack of Broad, Sustained Capacity Building -- Conclusions and Lessons Learned.

Annex 4.1 Use of the Monetary Poverty Maps by Governmental and International Institutions -- Notes -- References -- 5 The Poverty Mapping Exercise in Bulgaria -- Background -- Technical Aspects of Poverty Mapping -- Findings of the Poverty Mapping Exercise -- The Use of Poverty Maps and the Impact of the Maps on Policy -- The Long-Term Sustainability of the Poverty Maps -- Summary of the Lessons Learned -- Notes -- References -- 6 To Use or Not to Use? Poverty Mapping in Cambodia -- Poverty Mapping in Cambodia -- Poverty Reduction -- Ground-Truthing -- Nutrition Mapping -- The Interviews with Stakeholders -- Hearing about and Using the Poverty Map -- The Accuracy of the Map -- Map Distribution -- Capacity Building -- Other Challenges -- Lessons Learned -- Notes -- References -- 7 Poverty Maps of Yunnan Province: Uses and Lessons for Scaling-Up in China -- Country Context -- The Mapping Process -- Data Issues -- Field Validation -- Dissemination -- Impacts of the Maps -- Lessons for Scaling Up -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 8 The 1990 and 2001 Ecuador Poverty Maps -- Motivation -- Background -- Preparation of Poverty Maps: Technical Aspects -- Distribution of Poverty Maps and the Policy Impact -- Lessons for the Future -- Annex 8.1 Ecuador Poverty Maps -- Notes -- References -- 9 Indonesia's Poverty Maps: Impacts and Lessons -- Country Context -- The Mapping Process -- Impacts: Actual Poverty Map Applications -- Impacts: Potential Poverty Map Applications -- Lessons -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 10 Poverty Maps and Public Policy: Lessons from Mexico -- The Evolution of Poverty and the Need for Disaggregation -- Institutional Changes That Have Reinforced the Need for Data -- The Mapping Process and Its Diverse Dimensions -- The Use of Poverty Maps -- Are Poverty Maps Perceived as Useful? Are They Being Used by Other Agents?.

Updating Poverty Maps: Selected Issues -- Lessons Learned -- Annex 10.1 The Process for the Selection of Variables -- Notes -- References -- 11 The Poverty Mapping Application in Morocco -- Overview -- Technical Aspects of the Poverty Mapping Exercise -- Results, Analysis, and the Implications for Policy Use -- The Implications for Targeting Strategies -- The Impact of the Poverty Map on Policy -- The Sustainability of the Poverty Map -- Lessons Learned -- References -- 12 Poverty Maps in Sri Lanka: Policy Impacts and Lessons -- Building a Poverty Map, Technical Considerations -- Results of the Poverty Mapping Exercise -- Further Analysis Using the Poverty Maps -- Building Capacity to Sustain the Poverty Mapping Exercise -- The Impact of the Poverty Maps on Policy -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 13 Thailand's Poverty Maps: From Construction to Application -- Rapid Poverty Reduction -- Unpacking Spatial Poverty -- Roadblocks to Application -- The Way Forward -- Notes -- References -- 14 Poverty Mapping: The Experience of Vietnam -- Background -- Arrangements and Process -- Technical Aspects -- The Findings of the Poverty Mapping Exercise -- Impact -- Missed Opportunities for Influence -- Sustainability -- The Lessons Learned -- References -- Boxes -- 1.1 Building Poverty Maps: The Small Area Estimation Method -- 1.2 What May Be Projected onto the Poverty Maps -- 1.3 Geographical Targeting: How Much Does It Help? -- 1.4 Potential Technical Issues and Policy Relevance -- 2.1 The 10 Steps of the Poverty Mapping Process -- 5.1 Major Dissemination, Training, and Capacity-Building Events, Bulgaria -- 8.1 Actual and Potential Poverty Map Uses: Policy and Applications Audience -- 13.1 The Sufficiency Economy -- 13.2 Data Collection for the BMN and NRD2C Data Sets -- 13.3 The POREP Initiative -- Figures.

3.1 Poverty Headcount Ratio in Albania by Region, District, and Commune/Municipality -- 3.2 Policy Impact Analysis: Distribution of Social Assistance Block Grants in Albania -- 4.1 Incidence and Intensity of Consumption Poverty in Bolivia, 2001 -- 4.2 Average per Capita Consumption and Monetary Poverty in Municipalities, Bolivia -- 4.3 Inequality and Consumption in Municipalities, Bolivia 2001 -- 4.4 Inequality and Extreme Poverty Measures in Municipalities, Bolivia 2001 -- 4.5 UBN and Consumption Poverty Maps on Municipalities, Bolivia 2001 -- 4.6 Poverty and UBN in Municipalities, Bolivia 2001 -- 4.7 Uses for and Awareness of Monetary Poverty Maps among Institutions, Bolivia -- 5.1 Poverty Headcount Ratio by Municipality, Bulgaria -- 5.2 Poverty Headcount Ratio by Oblast, Bulgaria -- 7.1 County-Level Poverty Incidence Estimates, Yunnan Province, China -- 7.2 Township-Level Poverty Incidence Estimates, Yunnan Province, China -- 8.1 Per Capita Gross Domestic Product, Ecuador 1990-2002 -- 8.2 Consumption Poverty and Unmet Basic Needs, Ecuador -- 8A.1 Incidence of Poverty by Parish, Ecuador 2001 -- 8A.2 Incidence of Poverty by Canton, Ecuador 1990 and 2001 -- 8A.3 Changes in Poverty in the Cantons and Provinces, Ecuador 1990-2001 -- 9.1 Poverty Headcount Ratio, by Province, Indonesia, 2000 -- 9.2 Poverty Headcount Ratio, by Regency and City, Indonesia, 2000 -- 10.1 The Composition of Local Government Budgets, Mexico 1978-2000 -- 10.2 Poverty Headcount Ratio by State in Mexico -- 10.3 Consistency with Other Indicators, Mexico 2000 -- 12.1 Poverty Headcount Ratio at the DS Level, Sri Lanka -- 12.2 Estimated Distribution of the Poor, Sri Lanka -- 12.3 Poverty Headcount Ratio at the Grama Niladhari Level in Colombo District, Sri Lanka -- 12.4 Estimated Distribution of the Poor in Colombo District, Sri Lanka -- 12.5 Accessibility Index, Sri Lanka.

12.6 Rainfall Anomalies, Sri Lanka 2001 -- 12.7 Poverty Headcount Ratios in Parts of Southern Province, Sri Lanka -- 13.1 Poverty Headcount Ratio and Distribution by Province, Thailand 1988, 1994, and 2002 -- 13.2 Poverty Headcount Ratio, Thailand, 2000 -- 13.3 Rural Village Poverty Status, Thailand: Poverty Map of 2000 and NRD2C of 1999 -- 13.4 Comparison of Subdistrict Poverty Status in Thailand: 2002 BMN and 2002 Poverty Map -- 13.5 Comparison of Individual Poverty Status in Thailand: 2004 Poverty Line and POREP -- 13.6 Poverty Headcount Estimates in the Northeast, Based on POREP Registrations and the 2002 Household Socioeconomic Survey in Thailand -- 14.1 Provincial Poverty Incidence by Molisa and the GSO, Vietnam 2002 and 2003 -- 14.2 Incidence of Poverty in Communes, Vietnam -- 14.3 Density of Poverty and Poverty Gap by District, Vietnam -- 14.4 Cumulative Distance below the Poverty Line by Province and District, Vietnam -- 14.5 Poverty Incidence by Province, District, and Commune, Vietnam -- 14.6 Poverty by Province, As Estimated by Molisa and GSO, Vietnam, 1999 -- 14.7 Poverty Incidence in Communes with and without Program 135,Vietnam -- Tables -- 5.1 Poverty Headcount Ratio by Strata in Bulgaria, 2003 and 2005 Poverty Maps -- 5.2 Distribution of Municipalities by Poverty Headcount Ratio, Bulgaria -- 8.1 Poverty Incidence, Ecuador -- 8.2 Headcount Ratio from Poverty Maps, Ecuador 1990 and 2001 -- 10.1 Trends in Poverty Incidence among Households, Mexico 2000-02 -- 10.2 Trends in Poverty Incidence among Households, Mexico 2002-04 -- 12.1 Estimates of Poverty Headcount Ratios by District, Sri Lanka.