March 2019 PovcalNet Update: What's New

Aziz Atamanov, R. Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Paul Corral Rodas, Reno Dewina, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Dean Jolliffe, Christoph Lakner, Kihoon Lee, Jose Montes, Laura Liliana Moreno Herrera, Rose Mungai, David Newhouse, Minh Nguyen, Espen Prydz, Prem Sangraula and Judy Yang

No 7, Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note Series from The World Bank

Abstract: The March 2019 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 national accounts and population input data have been updated. This document explains these changes in detail and the reasoning behind them. Emphasis is given to the update of the CPIs series released by the IMF on November 2018 and the changes to the national inequality measures in China, India, and Indonesia. In addition to the changes listed here, 50 new country-years have been added, bringing the total number of surveys to 1657.

Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2019-03
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