Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Alessandra Petrucci

Nicola Salvati

Chiara Seghieri

Poverty mapping in developing countries is used to identify ways to improve living standards and, until now, methods have been generally based on econometric models which do not take into account the spatial dependence that may exist in human societies, with regard to income distribution. This report uses spatial regression techniques to model more accurately the distribution of poverty across regions in Ecuador.

Chiara Seghieri

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