March 2020 PovcalNet Update : What's New

Atamanov, Aziz ; Castaneda Aguilar, R. Andres ; Fujs, Tony H.M.J. ; Dewina, Reno ; Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina ; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon ; Jolliffe, Dean ; Lakner, Christoph ; Matytsin, Mikhail ; Montes, Jose ; Moreno Herrera, Laura L. ; Mungai, Rose ; Newhouse, David ; Nguyen, Minh C. ; Parada Gomez Urquiza, Francisco J. ; Silwal, Ani Rudra ; Sanchez Castro, Diana M. ; Schoch, Marta ; Vargas Mogollon, David L. ; Viveros Mendoza, Martha C. ; Yang, Judy ; Yoshida, Nobuo ; Wu, Haoyu

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: POVERTY MEASUREMENT;    POVERTY MONITORING;    POVERTY ASSESSMENT;    POVERTY ESTIMATE;    WELFARE AGGREGATES;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The March 2020 update to PovcalNetinvolves several changes to the data underlying the globalpoverty estimates. Some welfare aggregates have been changedfor improved harmonization, and some of the CPI, nationalaccounts, and population input data have been revised. Thisdocument explains these changes in detail and the reasoningbehind them. In addition to the changes listed here, a largenumber of new country-years have been added, bringing thetotal number of surveys to more than 1,900.