Includes bibliographical references and index.

Poverty maps for policy making: beyond the obvious targeting applications -- Increasing the impact of poverty maps : beyond the technical exercise -- Constructing and using poverty maps for policy making : the Albania experience -- The geography of monetary poverty in Bolivia : lessons from poverty maps -- Poverty map country application : Bulgaria -- To use or not to use? : poverty mapping experience in Cambodia -- Poverty maps of Yunnan Province : potential usages and lessons for scaling-up in China -- The 1990 and 2001 Ecuador poverty maps -- Indonesia's poverty maps : impacts and lessons -- Poverty maps and public policy : lessons from Mexico -- Poverty map country application : Morocco -- Sri Lanka poverty map : policy impacts and lessons -- Thailand's poverty map : from construction to application -- Poverty mapping : experience from Vietnam.