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 … Bank's database of household surveys. The command also retrieves inequality statistics provided by the database …

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 …