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Christoph Lakner

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Economist at World Bank Data Group. Working on poverty, (global) inequality, shared prosperity and top incomes. Opinions are my own. sites.google.com/site/christophlakn…

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Christoph Lakner @christophlakner.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Recently, we updated the World Bank’s global poverty measures – three big changes: (1) New survey data (especially for India) (2) Change to 2021 PPPs (3) New global poverty lines Blog: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/... Details: documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0... [1/5]
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June 2025 global poverty update from the World Bank: 2021 PPPs and new country-data
The Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) updated global poverty estimates up to 2023, including nowcasted estimates up to 2025. The update includes new survey data for several country-years, adoption...
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