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Poverty and Inequality Research
  • ADePT 
    Simplifies the use of Stata, the standard platform that economists have used at the Bank for years to produced standardized poverty tables. It now takes just 15 minutes to produce 30 standardized poverty tables and six graphs from household survey data (free and easily downloaded).
  • Decomposing World Income Distribution Database 
    National income and expenditure distribution data from 119 countries can be used to decompose total income inequality between the individuals in the world, by continent and by "region" (countries grouped by income level).
  • Living Standards Measurement Study - Household Surveys (LSMS)
    Provides household survey data, tools for designing new surveys, and links to reports and research using LSMS data.
  • PovcalNet
    Computational tool allows you to replicate the calculations made by the World Bank's researchers in estimating the extent of absolute poverty in the world, including the $1 a day poverty measures. 
  • Poverty in India
    Data presented at the state level and at the all-India level separately. Period coverage is roughly from 1950 to 1994. The database contains 30 spreadsheets and 89 text files (ASCII) that are grouped into the six subject blocks.
  • Poverty Mapping Program
    SAS program combines survey and census data to generate poverty and inequality estimates with standard errors at low levels of aggregation. 



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