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the 2009 World Development Report has Economic Geography as its focus....

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We need more studies and papers like this one. Few people seem to know what might happen in developing countries as move through this global economic crisis.

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Lots of stuff from the World Bank about methods and uses of poverty maps

web.worldbank.org/...16618~theSitePK:430367,00.html - Preview

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Nice photograph of a woman transporting cassava on her head....

www.guardian.co.uk/...livelihoods-news - Preview

cassava Uganda world food crisis Africa Cassava

An excellent source of information on everything about Latin America....

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LANIC Latin America World Wide Web source Tools

this site lets you calculate poverty statistics using the world bank dollar-a-day method - the one they use for making their global calculations of the number of poor

iresearch.worldbank.org/...index.jsp - Preview

world bank poverty dollar-a-day PPP Web Tools Poverty

Potentially useful archive of soil maps from around the world....

eusoils.jrc.it/...EUDASM.htm - Preview

soil map global world geography Soil

Article on google earth and virtual world stuff

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Google Earth virtual world Web Tools Geography GIS

General article on the potential for Sweet Potato

biopact.com/...potatoes-and-carbohydrate.html - Preview

Sweet potato global world crops harvestplus Cassava Potato

CIP's page with sweet potato data.

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Sweet potato global world crops harvestplus HarvestPlus

This is a 104 minute video from the World Bank of a presentation on poverty mapping, particularly small area estimation.

info.worldbank.org/...PresentationView.asp - Preview

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This is an opinion piece about malnutrition in Colombia, commenting on a recent World Bank report...

eltiempo.terra.com.co/...EB-_NOTA_INTERIOR-2784708.html - Preview

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The WB Report as reported in the NYTimes....

www.nytimes.com/...03hunger.html - Preview

malnutrition India World Bank stunting intervention HarvestPlus

This is a comprehensive report for the world bank that has lots of implications for attacking malnutrtion in developing countries

siteresources.worldbank.org/...NutritionStrategy.pdf - Preview

malnutrition India World Bank stunting intervention HarvestPlus

This discusses droughts in southern Africa and their effects on food security. Has a good analysis of problems with the food aid system.

www.nytimes.com/...23zambia.html - Preview

Zambia Africa food security drought World Food Program humanitarian assistance Poverty Security

Uses nightlights, current cloud cover and current time information to simulate places that recieve or do not receive sunlight at a given time

www.die.net/earth - Preview

sunlight map world darkness cloud Geography

This is the home page of the Living Standards Measurement Study. You can get to everything from here.

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LSMS household survey World Bank living standards Poverty

This monograph examines how decentralization can work or how it fails....

lnweb18.worldbank.org/...hinking%20Decentralization.pdf - Preview

decentralization developing countries World Bank governance HarvestPlus Food Policy

www.prb.org/...04WorldDataSheet_Eng.pdf - Preview

population fertility world growth reference Population