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Part I (501 KB)

Foreword
Abstract
Acknowledgement
Contents
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - The demand for better information

The Summit decade and the emergence of a global anti-poverty agenda
Global monitoring and assessment products
The search for indicators
The Summit decade and the emergence of a global anti-poverty agenda

The millennium goals and targets
The millennium indicators

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their uses
The FIVIMS initiative
The food insecurity, poverty and environment global GIS database(FGGD)

Part II

Uses and limitations of early global statistical maps
Early application of a global GIS-based approach to evaluate the influence of geography on poverty and malnutrition
The millennium project and the millennium assessment report

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