| The World Bank is using Guatemala’s poverty map in conjunction
with other data to help develop a road strategy (1). |
Poverty mapping influenced the allocation of US$100 million that
will be used to improve roads in especially those departments shown
to have low accessibility to basic services.Data comparisons on
poverty and infrastructure indicated that travel time is significantly
higher in poorer areas. |
There is a need to build a broad cadre of environmental analysts
in Guatemala to facilitate poverty map use in other spatial and
comparative analyses. |
