March 2021 PovcalNet Update: What's New

Tanida Arayavechkit, Aziz Atamanov, Karen Barreto Herrera, Nadia Belhaj Hassine, R. Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Tony Fujs, Reno Dewina, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Ifeanyi Edochie, Dean Jolliffe, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Mahler, Jose Montes, Laura Moreno Herrera, Rose Mungai, David Newhouse, Minh Nguyen, Diana Sanchez Castro, Marta Schoch, Dhiraj Sharma, Kenneth Simler, Rob Swinkel, Shinya Takamatsu, Ikuko Uochi, Martha Viveros Mendoza, Nishant Yonzan, Nobuo Yoshida and Haoyu Wu

No 15, Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note Series from The World Bank

Abstract: The March 2021 update to PovcalNet involves several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. Some welfare aggregates have been changed for improved harmonization, and the CPI, national accounts, and population input data have been updated. This document explains these changes in detail and the reasoning behind them. In addition to the changes listed here, a large number of new country-years have been added, resulting in a total number of surveys of more than 1,900. Moreover, this update includes important revisions to the historical survey data and for the first time, poverty estimates based on imputed consumption data.

Pages: 66 pages
Date: 2021-03
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