POVCALNET: Stata module to access World Bank Global Poverty and Inequality measures

Jorge Soler-Lopez, Andrés Castañeda, Christoph Lakner, Espen Beer Prydz, Ruoxuan Wu, Qinghua Zhao
October 2018
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Abstract

The povcalnet commands allows Stata users to compute poverty and inequality indicators for more than 160 countries and regions in the World Bank’s database of household surveys. It has the same functionality as the PovcalNet website. PovcalNet is a computational tool that allows users to estimate poverty rates for regions, sets of countries or individual countries, over time and at any poverty line.

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Jorge Soler-Lopez
Jorge Soler-Lopez
International Consultant & PhD in Political Economy

I am a Fellow at Bocconi University and an International Consultant at the World Bank (ECA Poverty and Equity team). I hold a PhD in Public Policy and Administration from Bocconi University. My research covers migration and democratic attitudes, economic hardship and political outcomes, minority political behavior, and poverty measurement.

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