Poverty mapping : what can we really learn?

Master Thesis

2010

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Naidoo, Jesse
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Wittenberg, Martin
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University of Cape Town

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School of Economics
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Faculty of Commerce
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Abstract
I examine the problem of poverty mapping. I explain the difficulties of small area estimation arising from data sparseness and argue that any attempt to overcome this fundamental problem has to take the form of a conditional homogeneity assumption.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-141).

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Economics

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Naidoo, J. 2010. Poverty mapping : what can we really learn?. University of Cape Town.

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