Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a novel sensitivity analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We measure global poverty using different data sources, parametric and nonparametric...

We analyze the performance of kernel density methods applied to grouped data to estimate poverty (as applied in Sala-i-Martin, 2006, QJE). Using Monte Carlo simulations and household surveys, we find that the technique gives rise to biases in poverty estimates, the sign and magnitude of which...

Covers the period from 1980 to 1989.

Das Statistische Bundesamt weist seit der großen Revision 2005 in den Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen (VGR) die Entwicklung des realen Bruttoinlandsprodukts und seiner Komponenten auf Vorjahrespreisbasis aus. Durch Verkettung (»Chain-Linking«) werden die zunächst unvergleichbaren...

In den deutschen Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen (VGR) wurde bisher das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) in konstanten Preisen eines Basisjahres nachgewiesen (Festpreisbasis). Auf der Grundlage der Entscheidung der EU-Kommission vom 30. November 1998 wird bei der nächsten anstehenden...

This paper discusses Bhutan’s Technical Assistance Evaluation report. Participation in the statistical projects financed by the Japanese government in national accounts, prices, government finance, and balance-of-payments statistics is having a major effect on Bhutan’s statistical...

Using the author’s recently constructed data set, this article measures the productivity performance of China’s 19 manufacturing industries, four mining industries, plus utilities, over the reform period 1980-2005. The approach is based on neoclassical assumptions on institutional settings...

The review article first presents a brief overview of each chapter, focusing on the main contributions of the respective authors. This does not fully do justice to their work since these chapters include much more than can be considered here, but it will provide a useful summary of the main...

The Atkinson Report examined measurement of public services' output and productivity. Traditionally, only inputs to the government sector were reflected in the National Accounts. This treatment imposed zero productivity growth for the government sector. From the late 1990s, the United Kingdom...