Estimating Global Poverty in Stata : The PovcalNet Command

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...

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Main Authors:	Castaneda Aguilar, R. Andres, Lakner, Christoph, Prydz, Espen B., Soler Lopez, Jorge, Wu, Ruoxuan, Zhao, Qinghua
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	POVERTY INEQUALITY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS STATA PROGRAM SOFTWARE POVERTY MEASUREMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/836101568994246528/Estimating-Global-Poverty-in-Stata-The-Povcalnet-Command http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32477

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spelling	okr-10986-324772021-05-25T09:56:23Z Estimating Global Poverty in Stata : The PovcalNet Command Castaneda Aguilar, R. Andres Lakner, Christoph Prydz, Espen B. Soler Lopez, Jorge Wu, Ruoxuan Zhao, Qinghua POVERTY INEQUALITY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS STATA PROGRAM SOFTWARE POVERTY MEASUREMENT 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. 2019-09-30T19:47:10Z 2019-09-30T19:47:10Z 2019-09 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/836101568994246528/Estimating-Global-Poverty-in-Stata-The-Povcalnet-Command http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32477 English Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note,9; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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topic	POVERTY INEQUALITY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS STATA PROGRAM SOFTWARE POVERTY MEASUREMENT
spellingShingle	POVERTY INEQUALITY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS STATA PROGRAM SOFTWARE POVERTY MEASUREMENT Castaneda Aguilar, R. Andres Lakner, Christoph Prydz, Espen B. Soler Lopez, Jorge Wu, Ruoxuan Zhao, Qinghua Estimating Global Poverty in Stata : The PovcalNet Command
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Castaneda Aguilar, R. Andres Lakner, Christoph Prydz, Espen B. Soler Lopez, Jorge Wu, Ruoxuan Zhao, Qinghua
author_facet	Castaneda Aguilar, R. Andres Lakner, Christoph Prydz, Espen B. Soler Lopez, Jorge Wu, Ruoxuan Zhao, Qinghua
author_sort	Castaneda Aguilar, R. Andres
title	Estimating Global Poverty in Stata : The PovcalNet Command
title_short	Estimating Global Poverty in Stata : The PovcalNet Command
title_full	Estimating Global Poverty in Stata : The PovcalNet Command
title_fullStr	Estimating Global Poverty in Stata : The PovcalNet Command
title_full_unstemmed	Estimating Global Poverty in Stata : The PovcalNet Command
title_sort	estimating global poverty in stata : the povcalnet command
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/836101568994246528/Estimating-Global-Poverty-in-Stata-The-Povcalnet-Command http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32477
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Estimating Global Poverty in Stata : The PovcalNet Command

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