This section provides information on recent trends in poverty indicators and links to sources of data on poverty in South Asia. Bank-Wide Resources  Data on Poverty and Inequality: A guide to current poverty trends and key poverty indicators that monitor various dimensions of poverty, including consumption/income, health and education indicators.
Types of Data: Reviews the different aggregation levels and collecting agencies and examines different types of data sources. Accessing Surveys: A guide to a number of data initiatives that have been launched in recent years to improve the availability and quality of household data collected for policy design and analysis, poverty monitoring, and program evaluation. Tools: A collection of tools to estimate poverty and inequality measures, compare them over time, decompose them and their changes, and analyze the distributional patterns of growth. These include POVCAL, PovcalNet, DAD, PovSTAT, SimSip Poverty, Poverty Analysis Toolkit, etc.
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