Mapping Marginality Hotspots: Geographical Targeting for Poverty Reduction

Mapping marginality hotspots and agricultural potentials in Bangladesh

Although Bangladesh made some remarkable achievements in reducing poverty and in improving social and economic outcomes in recent decades, about one-third of the rural population still lives below the upper poverty line most of whom depend on agriculture as their primary source of income. One of the reasons for their poverty is the low productivity that results from sub-optimal use of inputs an...

Agroforestry Tree Products (AFTPs): Targeting Poverty Reduction and Enhanced Livelihoods

Roger R.B. Leakey, Zac Tchoundjeu, Kate Schreckenberg, Sheona E. Shackleton and Charlie M. Shackleton Agroforestry and Novel Crops Unit, School of Tropical Biology, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia; 2World Agroforestry Centre, BP 2067, Yaoundé, Cameroon; Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD, England; Department of Envi...

Targeting Efficiency of Poverty Reduction Programs in Pakistan

Marginality: A Numerical Mapping for Enhanced Exploitation of Taxonomic Attributes

Hierarchical attributes appear in taxonomic or ontologybased data (e.g. NACE economic activities, ICD-classified diseases, animal/plant species, etc.). Such taxonomic data are often exploited as if they were flat nominal data without hierarchy, which implies losing substantial information and analytical power. We introduce marginality, a numerical mapping for taxonomic data that allows using on...

Public Spending for Poverty Reduction