After almost two decades of poverty maps produced by the World Bank and multiple advances in the literature, this paper … presents a methodological update to the World Bank's toolkit for small area estimation. The paper reviews the computational … procedures of the current methods used by the World Bank: the traditional approach by Elbers, Lanjouw and Lanjouw (2003) and the …

reductions. In validation tests, the model's predictions perform comparably to the World Bank's current adjustment method when …