WorldMapper's visual representation of world poverty
Hello, everyone! My name is Keena Seyfarth and I’m thrilled to be blogging for the Foreign Policy Association on development aid. I have lived and worked in Africa for most of my life, and am currently in graduate school for a combination Masters degree in International Health and Humanitarian Assistance at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and International Development and International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. More posts will come shortly, but to start things off I wanted to show you all a visual representation of the distribution of poverty (defined as living on less than $2 a day) across the world, courtesy of WorldMapper: see the map and accompanying description here. I also highly recommend looking at the rest of the website if you have some spare time- it’s quite cool.
Thanks for reading, and come back soon to share your comments and discuss development.