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A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice is an introduction to the theory and practice of measuring poverty and inequality, as well as a user's guide for analyzing income or consumption distribution for any standard household dataset using the World Bank's ADePT software. The approach taken here considers income standards as building blocks for basic measurement, then uses them to construct inequality and poverty measures. This unified approach provides advantages in interpreting and contrasting the measures and in understanding the way measures vary over time

Urban poor -- Developing countries. --- Poverty --- Equality --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Poverty. --- Equality. --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Destitution --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy

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The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews measurement methodologies, posits desired attributes, and presents theoretical and empirical frameworks for the new, improved index to monitor progress in the statistical capacity of nations. The paper illustrates the properties of the updated index with global data from 2016.

Agriculture --- Data --- Early child and children's health --- Economic growth --- Food security --- Health, nutrition and population --- Inequality --- Macroeconomics and economic growth --- Measurement --- National statistical system --- Nutrition --- Poverty assessment --- Poverty diagnostics --- Poverty impact evaluation --- Poverty lines --- Poverty monitoring and analysis --- Reproductive health --- Statistical capacity --- Statistical index --- Statistical indicators