Environmental approaches to poverty mapping: An example from Uganda

Information Development

Volumn 23, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 205-215

  Robinson, Timothy ^a   Emwanu, Thomas ^b   Rogers, David ^c  

^a Pro Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI)   (Italy)

^b Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS)   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disaggregation; Discriminant analysis; Geographic information systems; Poverty; Poverty mapping; Small area estimates; Spatial environmental data; Targeting; Temporal Fourier processing; Uganda

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250698961     PISSN: 02666669     EISSN: 17416469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266666907079077     Document Type: Article

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