"More than a Pretty Picture: Using Poverty Maps to Design Better Policies and Interventions" discussed at the InfoShop on Tuesday October 30 at 12:00 pm in J1-050

InfoShop & Poverty Reduction Group
cordially invite you to a book launch and panel discussion featuring

More than a Pretty Picture
Using Poverty Maps to Design Better Policies and Interventions.
Edited by Tara Bedi, Aline Coudouel, and Kenneth Simler

The allocation of resources and the design of policies tailored to local-level
conditions require highly disaggregated information. Data on poverty at the
local level is typically not available because most household surveys are not
representative past the regional level. This volume aims to promote the
effective use of Small Area Estimation poverty maps in policy making. It
presents the range of policies and interventions which have been informed by
poverty maps, focusing on the political economy of poverty maps and the key
elements to their effective use by policy makers. The volume also looks at the
future of poverty maps in terms of new techniques and new areas of application.

Tuesday, October 30
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave
.A light lunch will follow the event

MODERATED BY
Danny Leipziger
Vice President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM), World
Bank
Danny Leipziger is Vice President and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic
Management Network (PREM) at the World Bank. As the Head of the PREM Network,
he provides leadership for the Bank's strategic work on growth and poverty
reduction across the Bank?s regional PREM units. He is the focal point for
economic policy, debt, trade, gender and governance issues and for the Bank's
dialogue on these issues with key partner institutions -- including the IMF,
WTO, OECD, and the EU. Mr. Leipziger also serves as the Vice-Chair (with
Michael Spence) of the Commission on Growth and Development (2006) and Chair of
the World Bank's Sanctions Board (2007).

PRESENTED BY
Ken Simler
Senior Economist in the PREM Poverty Reduction Group, World Bank
Kenneth Simler is a Senior Economist in the PREM Poverty Reduction Group, where
he leads the team working on shared growth. Prior to joining the Bank in 2006,
Ken was a research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute
and the Cornell University Food and Nutrition Policy Program. He has published
numerous journal articles and book chapters on poverty and inequality, human
capital development, education, and child undernutrition.

COMMENTS BY
Indermit Gill
Director, World Development Report 2009
Indermit Gill is Director of the upcoming 2009 World Development Report Spatial
Disparities and Development Policy. Indermit joined the Bank in 1993 has held
various positions, his most recent being PREM Sector Manager and Economic
Advisor in the East Asia and Pacific Region. He has published widely on
development topics, especially on labor market issues. After completing the WDR
on spatial disparities next year he will take up the post of Chief Economist for
the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region.

Marc Levy
Deputy Director of the Center for International Earth Science Information
Network
Marc Levy is Deputy Director of the Center for International Earth Science
Information Network (CIESIN), part of the Earth Institute at Columbia
University. He leads CIESIN's work on environment-security connections, the
Environmental Sustainability Index and the Environmental Performance Index,
poverty mapping, the human footprint, and conflict early-warning. He has served
as convening lead author on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and UNEP's
Global Environmental Outlook.
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