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Datasets

ADePT  
Not in reality a dataset, the ADePT site simplifies the use of Stata, the standard platform that economists have used at the Bank for years to produced standardized poverty tables. It now takes just 15 minutes to produce 30 standardized poverty tables and six graphs from household survey data (free and easily downloaded).
Geography of Academic Research
Over 17,000 academic papers in over 202 major economic journals are covered, in studying relationships between publication rates and variables such as GDP, language, country of interest, etc.  (December 2009)

Inequality Around the World datasets

Living Standards Measurement Study - Household Surveys (LSMS)
Provides household survey data, tools for designing new surveys, and links to reports and research using LSMS data.

PovcalNet
Computational tool allows you to replicate the calculations made by the World Bank's researchers in estimating the extent of absolute poverty in the world, including the $1 a day poverty measures. 

PovcalNet
Computational tool allows you to replicate the calculations made by the World Bank's researchers in estimating the extent of absolute poverty in the world, including the $1 a day poverty measures.

Poverty in India
Data presented at the state level and at the all-India level separately. Period coverage is roughly from 1950 to 1994. The database contains 30 spreadsheets and 89 text files (ASCII) that are grouped into the six subject blocks.




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