Geographic Decomposition of Inequality in Health and Wealth: Evidence from Cambodia

• Main Author: FUJII, Tomoki
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: Small-area estimation; Health inequality; Cambodia; Asian Studies; Health Economics; Income Distribution
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1079; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2078/viewcontent/nutri_pov_decomp.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The small-area estimation developed by Elbers, Lanjouw and Lanjouw (2002, 2003), in which a census and a survey are combined to produce the estimates of welfare measures for small geographic areas, has become a standard tool for poverty analysis in developing countries. The small-area estimates are typically plotted on a map, which are commonly called a poverty map. Poverty maps proved useful for policy analysis and formulation, and have become increasingly popular among policy-makers and researchers. In Cambodia, poverty maps have been used by various international organizations, ministries and non-governmental organizations for analyzing the poverty situations for their operation areas, selecting the potential locations for their projects and programs, and educating students in classrooms (Fujii, 2007).