Research
Here is an overview of my published articles, working papers, policy reports and other writings that I have contributed to. I try to link ungated versions where available and to and related blogs and media mentions. Please email me if links don't work.
Publications
How Much Does Reducing Inequality Matter for Global Poverty? (with Christoph Lakner, Mario Negre, Daniel Mahler) doi: 10.1007/s10888-021-09510-w . Journal of Economic Inequality. March 2022. (Issue pending)
Disparities in Assessments of Living Standards Using National Accounts and Household Surveys. (with Jolliffe, Dean and Serajuddin, Umar). Review of Income and Wealth. May 2022.
Societal poverty: a relative and relevant measure. World Bank Economic Review. 35(1), pp.180–206. February 2021. (with Jolliffe, Dean) doi: 10.1093/wber/lhz018
Ungated version: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8073
World Bank Open Data Blog: A quarter of the world lives in societal poverty
Estimating international poverty lines from comparable national thresholds. The Journal of Economic Inequality, 14(2), pp.185-198. 2016. (with Jolliffe, Dean) doi: 10.1007/s10888-016-9327-5
Ungated version: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7606
A global count of the extreme poor in 2012: data issues, methodology and initial results. The Journal of Economic Inequality, 14(2), pp.141-172. 2016. (with Ferreira, Francisco. et al) doi: 10.1007/s10888-016-9326-6 [Open Access]
Working papers
Global poverty goals: How does purchasing power parity matter? IZA Discussion Paper No. 9064, Bonn, 2015 (PDF) /World Bank Policy Research WP No. 7256, 2015 doi: 10.1596/1813-9450-7256 (with Jolliffe, Dean).
The Financial Times: Earth’s poor set to swell as World Bank moves poverty line (September 23, 2015)
Let's Talk Development: The world is about as poor as we thought, and the fight to end poverty remains ambitious
Twinning the goals: how can promoting shared prosperity help to reduce global poverty? World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7106. 2014. (with Christoph Lakner, Mario Negre) doi: 10.1596/1813-9450-7106
The Economist Poverty’s long farewell (Print Edition, 28 February 2015)
Mapping the world population one building at a time. (with Tiecke, T.G., et al) 2017. arXiv:1712.05839. doi: 10.1596/33700.
Policy and flagship reports
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2018: Piecing Together the Poverty Puzzle. Washington, DC: World Bank. doi: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1330-6
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016: Taking on Inequality. Washington, DC: World Bank. doi: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0958-3
A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and the Twin Goals. 2014. doi: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0361-1
Levels and trends in child malnutrition 2017, 2018, 2019 (doi: 10665/331097) eds. UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Group joint child malnutrition estimates: key findings report. (with C Hayashi et al).
Technical notes on global poverty measurement
September 2019 PovcalNet Update: What’s new. Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note. No. 10. September 2019. World Bank. (Aziz Atamanov, R. Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Dean Jolliffe, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Jose Montes, Laura Liliana Moreno Herrera, David Newhouse, Minh C. Nguyen, Espen Beer Prydz, Prem Sangraula, Sharad Alan Tandon and Judy Yang)
Estimating Global Poverty in Stata: The povcalnet command. Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note. No. 9. September 2019. World Bank (R. Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Christoph Lakner, Espen Beer Prydz, Jorge Soler Lopez, Ruoxuan Wu and Qinghua Zhao)
National accounts data used in Global Poverty Measurement. Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note. No. 8. March 2019. World Bank (Espen Beer Prydz, Dean Jolliffe, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler and Prem Sangraula]
March 2019 PovcalNet Update: What’s new. Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note. No. 7. March 2019. World Bank. (Aziz Atamanov, R. Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Paul A. Corral Rodas, Reno Dewina, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Dean M. Jolliffe, Christoph Lakner, Kihoon Lee, Jose Montes, Laura Liliana Moreno Herrera, Rose Mungai, David Newhouse, Minh C. Nguyen, Espen Beer Prydz, Prem Sangraula and Judy Yang)
Purchasing Power Parities used in Global Poverty Measurement. Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note. No. 5. September 2018. World Bank. (Aziz Atamanov, Dean M. Jolliffe, Christoph Lakner and Espen Beer Prydz)
Consumer Price Indices used in Global Poverty Measurement. Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note. No. 4. September 2018. World Bank. (Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Minh C. Nguyen, Joao Pedro Azevedo, Shaohua Chen, Dean M. Jolliffe, Espen Beer Prydz and Prem Sangraula)
Prices used in Global Poverty Measurement. Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note. No. 3. September 2018. World Bank. (Joao Pedro Azevedo, Paul A. Corral Rodas, Dean M. Jolliffe, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Jose Montes, Minh C. Nguyen and Espen Beer Prydz)
September 2018 PovcalNet Update: What's new. Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note. No. 2. September 2018. World Bank. (Shaohua Chen, Dean M. Jolliffe, Christoph Lakner, Kihoon Lee, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Rose Mungai, Minh C. Nguyen, Espen Beer Prydz, Prem Sangraula, Dhiraj Sharma, Judy Yang and Qinghua Zhao)
April 2018 Povcalnet update: What’s new. Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note No. 1. April 2018. World Bank. (Aziz Atamanov, Joao Pedro Azevedo, R. Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Shaohua Chen, Paul A. Corral Rodas, Reno Dewina, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Dean M. Jolliffe, Christoph Lakner, Kihoon Lee, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Jose Montes, Rose Mungai, Minh C. Nguyen, Espen Beer Prydz, Prem Sangraula, Kinnon Scott, Ayago Esmubancha Wambile, Judy Yang and Qinghua Zhao): Blog post.
Other
Classifying countries by income. World Development Indicators.
A Legacy of Conflict: Poverty in South Sudan. 2013. (Chapter with Gabriel Demombynes)
Inflation in South Sudan (February 2012) World Bank Policy Note
Food Security in South Sudan (July/October 2012) World Bank Policy Note