Links
This page provides you with an index of poverty mapping related initiatives and information
Categories of links
Poverty
- Globalissues.org: Causes of Poverty
- Millenium Development Goals: Poverty
- UN Division on Social Policy and Development: Poverty Eradication
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network
- WorldBank: Heavily indebted poor countries
- WorldBank: PovertyNet
- WorldBank: Global Poverty Monitoring
- WorldBank: Poverty and growthin India
- The World Bank Research
Poverty mapping
- Global distribution of Poverty - poverty mapping at SEDAC/CIESIN
- Geographic Aspects of Inequality and Poverty - The World Bank's PovertyNet
- Measuring Poverty in South Africa
- Fondo de Inversi?n Social: Sistema de Informacion Geografica (SIG) - Panama
- The US Census Bureau's Poverty pages
- Poverty mapping in Indonesia, Thailand and China
- Digital Atlas Of The United States: US Poverty
- Charles Booth and poverty mapping in late nineteenth century London - Middlesex University Business School
- When Geograhpy Seperates the Poor from the Rich (Azerbaijan International)
- World Poverty Map (Neural Networks Research Centre)
- Self-Organising Patterns in World Poverty
- IAWG-FIVIMS Secretariat (located at FAO, Rome)
- IAWG-FIVIMS Secretariat (located at FAO, Rome)
Poverty and environment
Information sources and statistics
- The Earth Institute at Columbia University
- US Department of Health and Human Services: Poverty Guidelines, Research and Measurement
- Joint Center for Poverty Research (JCPR)
- The Social Disadvantage Research Group Home Page
- Poverty and social policy - Institute of Development Studies, Sussex
- Institute for Research on Poverty - University of Wisconsin-Madison
- World Development Report on Poverty - World Bank
- World Bank: Poverty in Africa
- Social Watch - Social Development Indicators
- Eldis - The Gateway to Development Information
- Journal of Poverty; Monthly Magazine
- OneWorld.net: Poverty Resources
- Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (IMF)
- Oregon State University: Wealth and Poverty
- World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study
- Chronic Poverty Research Center
- Economist.com
- The African Development Bank Group
- Global Poverty links (Ruth Lawson - Professor of International Politics, Mass., US)
- Macro International
- Poverty on the Development Gateway (dgPoverty)
Food insecurity early warning
- FAO's Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS)
- Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping System (FIVIMS)
- FAO Case Study on Food insecurity and nutritioning: Niger (in french only)
- Economic Democracy Information Network (EDIN): Who Are the Hungry?
- USAID Famine Early Warning System
- GMFS - Global Monitoring for Food security (A European initiative to provide accurate crop production data as inputs for existing early warning systems)
Programmes and Activities
- Asian Development Bank: Poverty Reduction
- UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST): Activities on Poverty and Social Exclusion
- Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP)
- Volte-face contre la mis?re; Le Rapport de la Banque Mondiale sur la Pauvret? (Article in La Liberation, september 2000)
- Leicester University - International Inequalities
- Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
- German Organization for Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
- U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
- UNDP Poverty Homepage
- Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
- International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- International labour Organisation (ILO)
- Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- UNEP Earthwatch and poverty
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- The World Bank (WB)
- World Food Programme (WFP)
- World Health Organisation (WHO)
- World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
- ACC/Sub-Committee on Nutrition (ACC/SCN)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- DANIDA, the Danish development agency
- SIDA, the Swedish development agency
- NORAD, the Norwegian development agency
- UK Department for International Development (DFID)
- Development Cooperation Ireland
- UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific
- Population Environment Research Network
CGIAR System/Network
- The CGIAR Home Page
- Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT)
- International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas ( ICARDA )
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA )
- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI )
- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)