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  • Price Adjustments and Poverty Measurement (English)

    Measuring poverty entails making interpersonal welfare comparisons, that should account for differences in prices faced by households, both over time and across space. This paper investigates the impact...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPs10426 Document Date: April 27, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Amendola,Nicola,Mancini,Giulia,Redaelli,Silvia,Vecchi,Giovanni



  • September 2020 PovcalNet Update : What’s New (English)

    The September 2020 update to PovcalNet mainly involves the adoption of the revised 2011 PPPs for the estimation of global poverty. In addition, the coverage rules for reporting regional and global poverty...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 152802 Document Date: September 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Castaneda Aguilar,Raul Andres,Fujs,Tony Henri Mathias Jany,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Lakner,Christoph,Mahler,Daniel Gerszon,Nguyen,Minh Cong,Schoch,Marta,Vargas Mogollon,David L.,Viveros Mendoza,Martha Celmira,Tetteh Baah,Samuel Kofi,Yonzan,Nishant,Yoshida,Nobuo

  • Inflation and Public Debt Reversals in Advanced Economies (English)

    This paper quantitatively assesses the effects of inflation shocks on the public debt-to-GDP ratio in 19 advanced economies using simulation and estimation approaches. The simulations based on the debt...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9129 Document Date: January 29, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fukunaga,Ichiro,Komatsuzaki,Takuji,Matsuoka,Hideaki

  • September 2019 PovcalNet Update : What's New (English)

    The September 2019 global poverty update from the World Bank includes revised survey data which lead to minor changes in the most recent global poverty estimates. The update includes revisions to 18 surveys...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 142013 Document Date: September 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Atamanov,Aziz,Castaneda Aguilar,Raul Andres,Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Lakner,Christoph,Mahler,Daniel Gerszon,Montes,Jose,Moreno Herrera,Laura Liliana,Newhouse,David Locke,Nguyen,Minh Cong,Prydz,Espen Beer,Sangraula,Prem Prasad,Tandon,Sharad Alan,Yang,Judy

  • International Comparisons of Poverty in South Asia (English)

    This paper explores the methodological differences underlying the construction of the national consumption aggregates that are used to estimate international poverty rates for all countries in the South...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8683 Document Date: December 19, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Islam,Tonmoy,Newhouse,David Locke,Yanez Pagans,Monica

  • International Comparisons of Poverty in South Asia (English)

    This paper explores the methodological differences underlying the construction of the national consumption aggregates that are used to estimate international poverty rates for all countries in the South...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 133138 Document Date: December 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Islam,Tonmoy,Newhouse,David Locke,Yanez Pagans,Monica

  • Prices Used in Global Poverty Measurement (English)

    To compare welfare aggregates over time and across space, the World Bank's global poverty estimates incorporate temporal and spatial price adjustments, as well as currency changes. This short note summarizes...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 129963 Document Date: September 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De,Corral,Paul A.,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Lakner,Christoph,Mahler,Daniel Gerszon,Montes,Jose,Nguyen,Minh Cong,Prydz,Espen Beer

  • Consumer Price Indices Used in Global Poverty Measurement (English)

    Temporal deflators are needed to compare welfare aggregates over time, and thus to measure real changes in poverty. This note describes the sources of the consumer price indices that are used for every...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 129964 Document Date: September 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lakner,Christoph,Mahler,Daniel Gerszon,Nguyen,Minh Cong,Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De,Chen,Shaohua,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Prydz,Espen Beer,Sangraula,Prem Prasad



  • Solomon Islands poverty and equity brief: spring 2018 (English)

    Like many countries in the Pacific region, the Solomon Islands suffers from infrequent collection of data and a lack of comparability between rounds. Using the international poverty line of USD 1.90 (2011...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 126883 Document Date: June 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:







  • Turkey’s GDP revision : understanding the sources of changes (English)

    The Turkish statistical institute (TURKSTAT) has gone through a major revision of its national accounts system. TURKSTAT has undertaken a number of changes simultaneously to align its methodology with...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 112968 Document Date: February 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Yilmaz,Ayberk,Yasar,Pinar,De Rosa,Donato