New "Poverty Atlas" Reveals Critical Insights Into Relationship Between Geography And Poverty

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New "Poverty Atlas" Reveals Critical Insights Into Relationship Between Geography And Poverty

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To increase awareness and promote usage of geographic information
system applications in development strategies, the Center for
International Earth Science Information Network and the World Bank have
produced "Where the Poor Are: An Atlas of Poverty," a series of maps
detailing spatially referenced data on hunger, child mortality, income
poverty and other related indicators at the global, regional, national
and local