[SDI-Africa] Maps help in flight on African poverty

[Kate Lance]

In the November 2007 issue of GEOconnexion International Magazine... Felicia Akinyemi looks at how maps are used to examine the multidimensional factors that impact on programmes to implement poverty reduction in Africa.

Maps help in flight on African poverty 
http://www.geoconnexion.com/uploads/africanpoverty_intv6i10.pdf
"Poverty maps are useful tools in focusing on pockets of poverty spatially distributed within countries. A simple
GIS application could be to overlay the poverty levels with road or rail infrastructure datasets. From close inspection, areas of high poverty may occur in areas of sparse road network. This leads to generating new hypothesis, for example, ‘the greater the degree of isolation, the higher the level of poverty experienced in a
locality’. Isolation can be measured by distance to nearest road or urban center while poverty is measured using a particular poverty measure or indicator."

See also: Spatial Data Needs for Poverty Management
http://gsdidocs.org/gsdiconf/GSDI-9/papers/TS54.1paper.pdf

Contact: 
Felicia O.Akinyemi Ph.D, Department
Surveying and Geoinformatics, University of Lagos,
Akoka, Lagos State, Nigeria
Email: felicia.akinyemi at gmail.com


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