The small-area estimation technique developed for producing poverty maps has been applied in a large number of …-area estimation methodology could significantly over-state the precision of local-level estimates of poverty, if underlying … conditions that have been argued to be essential for the method, confidence intervals for the poverty estimates also appear to be …

produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, they compare predicted welfare … poverty measures and lower for inequality measures. …

Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on … poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their … relative poverty status. They find large gains from targeting smaller administrative units, such as districts or villages. But …