The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

This note describes how poverty measures reported by the World Bank can be replicated using the Stata command povcalnet …. Users can estimate poverty at any poverty line for the world, regions or sets of countries, by directly querying the World …

This paper provides an initial analysis of the impact on the World Bank's global poverty estimates of the revised 2011 … and new 2017 PPPs published in May 2020. The revised 2011 PPPs slightly increase poverty in South Asia and Sub …-Saharan Africa, causing the extreme poverty headcount ratio for the world to rise by 0.3 percentage points to 10.3 percent in 2015 …