Penn World Tables (PWT) and of the World Development Indicators (WDI) better estimate true income per capita. We find that … constant-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World … Development Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as any recent vintages of the Penn World …

developing world and its regions. We get poverty estimates that are substantially lower and fall substantially faster than those … finding that economic growth has been higher in poor countries than the surveys suggest. We also find that developing world … living standards have grown faster, and the world income distribution has become more equal than would be suggested by …

true income per capita and $1-a-day poverty rates for the developing world and its regions. We obtain poverty estimates …

proxy: satellite data on lights at night. Our statistical framework uses light growth to supplement existing income growth …