"Many developing countries assign local governments increasing responsibilities in fighting poverty. This requires local social policy to go beyond the execution of centrally designed and funded education and health programs. Hence, local governments and their partners have both an opportunity...

Poverty maps provide information on the spatial distribution of living standards. They are an important tool to policymakers, who rely on them to allocate transfers and inform policy design. This article uses the case of Ecuador to demonstrate how sample survey data can be combined with census...

Many developing countries assign local governments increasing responsibilities in fighting poverty. This requires local social policy to go beyond the execution of centrally designed and funded education and health programs. Hence, local governments and their partners have both an opportunity...

Combining sample survey data and census data can yield predicted poverty rates for all households covered by the census. This offers a means to construct detailed poverty maps. But standard errors on the estimated poverty rates are not negligible.Poverty maps, providing information on the...