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October 10, 2024

Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024: Background Papers

Below are a series of background papers that have informed some of the research in the Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024:

 

  • Kraay, Aart C. ⓡ Christoph Lakner ⓡ Berk Ozler ⓡ Benoit M. A. Decerf ⓡ Dean M. Jolliffe ⓡ Olivier C.B. Sterck ⓡ Nishant Yonzan. 2023. "A New Distribution Sensitive Index for Measuring Welfare, Poverty, and Inequality." Policy Research working paper, no. 10470. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
  • Haddad, Cameron Nadim, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Ruth Hill, Christoph Lakner, and Gabriel Lara Ibarra. 2024. "The World Bank’s New Inequality Indicator: The Number of Countries with High Inequality." Policy Research working paper, no. 10796. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
  • Yonzan, Nishant ⓡ Minh Cong Nguyen ⓡ Christoph Lakner ⓡ Aart Kraay ⓡ Dean Mitchell Jolliffe ⓡ Haoyu Wu ⓡ Gabriel Lara Ibarra. [Unpublished]. “Bottom-Coding for the Measurement of Global Poverty and Inequality.” 
  • Wai-Poi, Matthew, Mariano Sosa, and Pierre Bachas. [Unpublished]. “Taxes, Spending and Equity: International Patterns and Lessons for Developing Countries.”
  • Mahler, Daniel Gerszon, Elizabeth Foster, and Samuel Tetteh-Baah. 2024. "How Improved Household Surveys Influence National and International Poverty Rates." Global Poverty Technical Note 40, Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
  • Doan, Miki Khanh, Ruth Hill, Stephane Hallegatte, Paul Corral, Ben Brunckhorst, Minh Nguyen, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, and Naikal Esther. 2023. “Counting People Exposed to, Vulnerable to, or at High Risk from Climate Shocks: A Methodology.” Policy Research Working Paper, no. 10619. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
  • Danielle V. Aron, R. Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Tony H. M. J. Fujs, Diana C. García R., Ruth Hill, Lali Jularbal, Christoph Lakner, Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Daniel G. Mahler, Minh C. Nguyen, Samuel Nursamsu, Carlos Sabatino, Zurab Sajaia, William Seitz, Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir, Samuel K. Tetteh-Baah, Martha C. Viveros Mendoza, Hernan Winkler, Haoyu Wu, and Nishant Yonzan. 2024. "September 2024 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) : What’s New." Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note 39, Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
  • Wollburg, Philip, Stephane Hallegatte, and Daniel Gerszon Mahler. 2023. “Ending Extreme Poverty Has a Negligible Impact on Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions.” Nature 623 (7989): 982–86. https://doi .org/10.1038/s41586-023-06679-0.

 

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