Tools

PovcalNet — 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). It also allows you to calculate the poverty measures under different assumptions and to assemble the estimates using alternative country groupings or for any set of individual countries of your choosing. PovcalNet is self-contained. PovcalNet is a product of the World Bank's Development Research Group.

Poverty Analysis Toolkit — This site provides the STATA .ado programs to perform growth-inequality and sectoral decompositions of poverty between two periods of time. Moreover, the program GICURVE produces the growth incidence curve and calculates the rate of pro-poor growth. The toolkit is a product of the World Bank's Development Research Group.

Jean-Yves Duclos, Abdelkrim Araar and Carl Fortin, "DAD: A Software for Distributive Analysis / Analyse Distributive", MIMAP programme, International Development Research Centre, Government of Canada, and CIRPÉE, Université Laval. This freely available software program enables comparison of living standards, social welfare, poverty, and inequality across distributions, and performs various statistical functions. The web site contains the software, a user's and conceptual manual, and a presentation of sample applications.

PovSTAT — an Excel based program that produces forecasts that vary by level of complexity depending on the availability of reliable data for the post survey period and on the extent to which various factors influencing poverty levels are incorporated. You will find a chapter describing the tool, as well as a file with the program itself.

Guide to Tools for Analyzing Survey Data — This web site contains a number of data analysis tools for use with household data sets, especially the Living Standard Measurement Study, LSMS. These tools are products of the World Bank's Development Research Group.

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