Subject(s): Poverty in Maps in Case studies. -- Poverty in Government policy in Case studies. -- Maps for policy making : Building awareness, changing perceptions, opening a new dialogue on poverty, designing interventions tailoring to local needs, stregthening accountability, promoting evidence based decision making by building capacity -- Increasing the impact of poverty maps : Defining the scope of mapping exercise, building support, creating demand, overcoming challenges, conflicts and tensions, establishing institutional arrangements, addressing data and software issues, producing the poverty maps and testing their validity, distribting poverty mapping products, supporting users and providing follow up, engaging external development partners, key counterparts in poverty mapping -- Country studies : Constructing and using poverty maps for policy making- experience in Albania, geography of monetary poverty in Bolivia, poverty mapping in Bulgaria, Cambodia, poverty maps of Yunnan province- uses and lessons for scaling up in China -- 1990 and 2001 Ecuador poverty maps, Indonesia's poverty maps, poverty maps and public policy in Mexico, poverty mapping application in Morocco, poverty maps in Sri Lanka- policy impacts and lessons, Thailand's poverty maps- from construction to application, poverty mapping- experience of Vietnam