description of the spatial patterns of poverty. Second, it incorporates new methodological refinements aimed at improving modeling …Small area estimates of poverty have become useful tool in targeting poverty reduction by geographic areas. For Nepal …, this is the second poverty map produced after a gap of seven years in collaboration with the Central Bureau of statistics …

Small area poverty maps allow for the design of policies based on spatial differences in welfare. They are typically … estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper … presents a new method which allows for the estimation of up-to-date small area poverty maps when only a dated census and a more …