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Estimating Global Poverty in Stata

Year: 2019

Type: book

Abstract: This note describes how poverty measures reported by the World Bank can be replicated using the Stata command povcalnet. Users can estimate poverty at any poverty line for the world, regions or sets of countries, by directly querying the World Bank's database of household surveys. The command also retrieves inequality statistics provided by the database.

Source: World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks

DOI: 10.1596/32477

Authors: Raul Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Christoph Lakner, Espen B. Prydz, Jorge Soler Lopez, Ruoxuan Wu, Qinghua Zhao

Language: Italian

Topic: Income, Poverty, and Inequality

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: No poverty, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2976809779

FWCI: 2.799

Cites: 7

Cited by: 20

Related to: 10