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Grant Competition: Deadline May 18, 2009

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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

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

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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

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

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

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Article on google earth and virtual world stuff

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Google Earth virtual world Technology Web Tools Geography GIS

General article on the potential for Sweet Potato

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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

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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....

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Everything about poverty mapping from the World Bank. It looks like Uwe Deichmann put together this page

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

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