poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … the forecasts, suggesting an important role for inequality on the path to eliminating extreme poverty …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in …

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 …

This paper provides an initial analysis of the impact on the World Bank's global poverty estimates of the revised 2011 … and new 2017 PPPs published in May 2020. The revised 2011 PPPs slightly increase poverty in South Asia and Sub …-Saharan Africa, causing the extreme poverty headcount ratio for the world to rise by 0.3 percentage points to 10.3 percent in 2015 …

In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the … distributions, while the poorer deciles in rich countries lagged behind. Although within-country inequality increased in population …-weighted terms, for the average developing country the rise in inequality slowed down in the second half of the 2000s. However, like …

Using a new database of household surveys, this paper examines inequality among all individuals living in developing …. Inequality increased during the initial decade, regardless of the choice of inequality measure. The trend appears to have … reversed in the mid-2000s. Regional inequality is now almost entirely explained by within-country differences, while gaps in …

interpersonal inequality has increased (from a Gini index of 52 percent in 1993 to 56 percent in 2008), driven by increasing … disparities in living standards across countries, while there has been no systematic increase in within-country inequality. For …