Mapping Deprivations in Mauritania

Recent economic growth In Mauritania has helped reduce poverty, but spatial disparities in terms of both monetary welfare and access to services and opportunities remain. Designing policies and projects to improve living conditions requires localiz...

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Main Authors:	Dahmani-Scuitti, Anais, Doyle, Jesse, Lefebvre, Matthieu, Meyer, Moritz, Rajashekar, Anirudh
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	POVERTY MEASUREMENT ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE LIVING CONDITIONS HUMAN CAPITAL DEPRIVATION SPATIAL DISPARITY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/884081599596652504/Mapping-Deprivations-in-Mauritania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34463

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spelling	okr-10986-344632021-05-25T10:54:40Z Mapping Deprivations in Mauritania Dahmani-Scuitti, Anais Doyle, Jesse Lefebvre, Matthieu Meyer, Moritz Rajashekar, Anirudh POVERTY MEASUREMENT ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE LIVING CONDITIONS HUMAN CAPITAL DEPRIVATION SPATIAL DISPARITY Recent economic growth In Mauritania has helped reduce poverty, but spatial disparities in terms of both monetary welfare and access to services and opportunities remain. Designing policies and projects to improve living conditions requires localized and updated data not usually available from household surveys. Deprivation mapping—a new spatial deprivation analysis tool—uses administrative and geospatial settlement-level data (the lowest administrative unit in our case study Mauritania) to estimate settlement access deprivations across 4 dimensions: social services, basic infrastructure, opportunities, and exposure to weather/climate shocks. Database and visualizations (map) highlight and rank each settlement’s deprivation index, enhancing national data and showing spatial differences in the depth, complexity, and persistence of deprivations to inform policies and prioritize investments. 2020-09-16T19:10:58Z 2020-09-16T19:10:58Z 2020-09 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/884081599596652504/Mapping-Deprivations-in-Mauritania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34463 English Poverty and Equity Notes;No. 34 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Africa Mauritania
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topic	POVERTY MEASUREMENT ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE LIVING CONDITIONS HUMAN CAPITAL DEPRIVATION SPATIAL DISPARITY
spellingShingle	POVERTY MEASUREMENT ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE LIVING CONDITIONS HUMAN CAPITAL DEPRIVATION SPATIAL DISPARITY Dahmani-Scuitti, Anais Doyle, Jesse Lefebvre, Matthieu Meyer, Moritz Rajashekar, Anirudh Mapping Deprivations in Mauritania
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relation	Poverty and Equity Notes;No. 34
description	Recent economic growth In Mauritania has helped reduce poverty, but spatial disparities in terms of both monetary welfare and access to services and opportunities remain. Designing policies and projects to improve living conditions requires localized and updated data not usually available from household surveys. Deprivation mapping—a new spatial deprivation analysis tool—uses administrative and geospatial settlement-level data (the lowest administrative unit in our case study Mauritania) to estimate settlement access deprivations across 4 dimensions: social services, basic infrastructure, opportunities, and exposure to weather/climate shocks. Database and visualizations (map) highlight and rank each settlement’s deprivation index, enhancing national data and showing spatial differences in the depth, complexity, and persistence of deprivations to inform policies and prioritize investments.
format	Brief
author	Dahmani-Scuitti, Anais Doyle, Jesse Lefebvre, Matthieu Meyer, Moritz Rajashekar, Anirudh
author_facet	Dahmani-Scuitti, Anais Doyle, Jesse Lefebvre, Matthieu Meyer, Moritz Rajashekar, Anirudh
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title	Mapping Deprivations in Mauritania
title_short	Mapping Deprivations in Mauritania
title_full	Mapping Deprivations in Mauritania
title_fullStr	Mapping Deprivations in Mauritania
title_full_unstemmed	Mapping Deprivations in Mauritania
title_sort	mapping deprivations in mauritania
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/884081599596652504/Mapping-Deprivations-in-Mauritania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34463
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Mapping Deprivations in Mauritania

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