The WDR explores the tremendous potential of data to improve lives. For the vision to be achieved, a new compact on data is necessary. The data revolution holds the promise of better decision-making, improved...
Modernized National Statistical Systems (NSSs) are key drivers of international development. They play an important role in the optimization of data and data-related services that support policy and decision-making...
The international community, including the World Bank, has helped developing countries build their national statistical systems. The Bank alone has invested more than US1 billion dollars in statistical...
This paper describes the challenges of accurately measuring the upper tail of the income and wealth distributions in low- and middle-income countries. It reviews the seminal contributions in the literature...
This paper reviews the main methods for small area estimation of welfare indicators. It begins by discussing the importance of small area estimation methods for producing reliable disaggregated estimates...
This paper presents a unified analytical framework to organize and review the literature on consumption-based poverty measurement, with a focus on establishing absolute poverty lines. Based on this framework...
The WDR explores the tremendous potential of data to improve lives. For the vision to be achieved, a new compact on data is necessary. The data revolution holds the promise of better decision-making, improved...
Poverty measurement among forcibly displaced populations, including refugees and internally displaced persons, has been, for long, neglected by the economics profession and by poverty specialists working...