Locating the poor: Spatially disaggregated poverty maps for Sri LankaThis report presents the results of subnational poverty estimation using aggregate poverty statistics and how they can help policy interventions. In particular, they estimate the poverty map across the DS division level in Sri Lanka. The poverty map depicts the proportion of households below the poverty line, which is based on household expenditure for food for obtaining the minimum calorie requirement. |
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access to water acre agricultural holdings agricultural operators Anuradhapura assess auxiliary information availability and access Badulla Census clustering of DS clustering of poor clustering of poverty Colombo distance to roads division poverty map DS division poverty economic activities explanatory variables geographical targeting Global Moran’s Hambantota high-high poverty cluster household 2002 Agri incidence of poverty income infrastructure interventions IWMI Kalutara Kurunegala land levels of poverty Local Moran’s low-low poverty cluster minor irrigated area Monaragala Moran’s I indicates Moran’s I statistic neighboring units number of agricultural number of poor OLS1 OLS2 operators per household percent percentage of poor Polonnaruwa poor DS divisions poor households poverty alleviation poverty estimation poverty levels poverty line principal component analysis proportion quadrant Ratnapura regression rural areas similarity or dissimilarity small areas smallholding sector spatial autocorrelation spatial clustering spatial dependence spatial similarities spatial variation Sri Lanka standard deviations subnational poverty variation of poverty water availability yala rainfall