countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 …

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 …-Saharan Africa, causing the extreme poverty headcount ratio for the world to rise by 0.3 percentage points to 10.3 percent in 2015 …

represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …