Estimating Global Poverty in Stata : The PovcalNet Command

Castaneda Aguilar, R. Andres

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

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Year of publication:	2019
Authors:	Castañeda Aguilar, R. Andrés
Other Persons:	Castañeda Aguilar, R. Andrés (contributor) ; Lakner, Christoph (contributor) ; Prydz, Espen Beer (contributor) ; Soler Lopez, Jorge (contributor) ; Wu, Ruoxuan (contributor) ; Zhao, Qinghua (contributor)
Publisher:	2019: Washington, D.C : The World Bank
Subject:	Armut \| Poverty \| Welt \| World \| Armutsbekämpfung \| Poverty reduction \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Globalisierung \| Globalization

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Series:	World Bank E-Library Archive Other papers
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1596/32477 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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