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PovertyNet
PovertyNet provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for researchers and practitioners.

PovcalNet
PovcalNet is an interactive computational tool that allows you to replicate the calculations made by the World Bank's researchers in estimating the extent of absolute poverty in the world.  It also allows you to calculate the poverty measures under different assumptions and to assemble the estimates using alternative country groupings or for any set of individual countries of your choosing.  PovcalNet is self-contained; it has reliable built-in software that immediately does the relevant calculations for your from the built-in database.

Online Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals
The first target is to reduce the proportion of people living on less than $1 a day to half the 1990 level by 2015. The atlas includes the latest available data (1994-2004) for the share of population living on less than $1 a day. (International poverty rates are currently being revised.)