Abstract
This note describes how poverty measures reported by the World Bank can be replicated using the Stata command povcalnet. Users can estimate poverty at any poverty line for the world, regions or sets of countries, by directly querying the World Bank’s database of household surveys. The command also retrieves inequality statistics provided by the database.
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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.