The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in … 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of ?ending extreme poverty.? However, the … countries have zero or only one poverty estimate. This paper refers to such lack of poverty data as ?data deprivation,? because …

Monitoring progress towards the World Bank Group's (WBG) goals, eradicating poverty and boosting shared prosperity, is … essential to adjust the Bank's portfolio investment decisions and to effectively implement projects. The Poverty and Equity …

progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. This paper estimates the resource requirements to …

The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in … 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of "ending extreme poverty." However, the … countries have zero or only one poverty estimate. This paper refers to such lack of poverty data as "data deprivation," because …

progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. This paper estimates the resource requirements to …

The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in … 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of “ending extreme poverty.” However, the … countries have zero or only one poverty estimate. This paper refers to such lack of poverty data as “data deprivation,” because …

The March 2024 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to the data underlying the … global poverty estimates. In particular, some welfare aggregates have been revised, and the CPI, national accounts, and … availability of recent survey data, global and regional poverty estimates are reported up to 2022. This is the first time PIP is …

This paper presents updated poverty and inequality estimates from the Somalia High Frequency Survey. This survey used … the Rapid Consumption Method to collect consumption data quickly in an environment of high insecurity. Its poverty … estimation, therefore, requires imputation of skipped consumption modules. Previous poverty estimates did not properly impute …

This paper presents updated poverty and inequality estimates from the South Sudan High Frequency Survey (HFS …, which the previous method overestimated. As a result of all the above adjustments, South Sudan's national poverty headcount …