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Estimation Tools & Surveys

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Modules for the Poverty Analysis

Software Platform for Automated Economic Analysis—ADePT was developed to automate and standardize the production of analytical reports.

+ Using example dataset

Estimation Tools

STATA Human Opportunity Index (HOI)

The program computes the Human Opportunity Index proposed by Barros et al (2008), including the Coverage of Basic Opportunities (P), the Dissimilarity Index (D), and the Human Opportunity Index (HOI).

PovcalNet is an interactive computational tool that allows you to replicate the calculations made by the World Bank’s researchers in estimating the extent of absolute poverty in the world ($1 a day).

growth-inequality decomposition

The growth-inequality decomposition introduced by Datt and Ravallion (1992) quantifies the relative contributions of economic growth and redistribution (e.g., changes in inequality) to changes in poverty

Poverty Impacts of changes in Food and Fuel Prices

This tool is designed to be easy-to-use, with modest data requirements. It estimates the impact of price changes and/or policy responses.

Software

Poverty Mapping

Surveys

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