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 …

The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative led by the World Bank under the … the world's economies. The report provides ICP results for the benchmark year 2017 and revised results for earlier years …-operation and Development, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Notably, PPPs and ICP data are used in indicators monitoring …

Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition …

), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … previous round of PPP data from 2005 led to a large increase in the estimated number of poor in the world. The 2011 price data … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set …

This paper explores the determinants of public employment across the world and finds that it is negatively associated …