Gabriel Lara Ibarra
Biographic Data
| ID | 6077153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel Lara Ibarra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel Lara |
| FAMILY NAME | Ibarra |
| SIGNATURE | IBARRA G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Daniel P. Miller is with the School of Social Work, Boston University, Boston, MA. Lenna Nepomnyaschy is with the School of Social Work, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Gabriel Lara Ibarra is with the World Bank, Washington, DC. Steven Garasky is with IMPAQ International, Columbia, MD. |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4260-4999 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Children in Monetary Poor Households
This paper presents the first estimates of extreme child poverty and child poverty using the World Bank’s recently revised international poverty lines. Using the international poverty line of $3.00 per day and the higher $8.30 per day poverty line (both expressed in 2021 purchasing power parity), the paper provides new results of the global and regional trends over 2014–24. The estimates show that 19.2 percent of children, approximately 412 milli…
June 2025 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)
The June 2025 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) introduces several important changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. The most important change is the adoption of the 2021 Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs). In addition, new data for India has been incorporated and the existing series adjusted for comparability. This document details the changes to underlying data and the methodological reasons behind them. Dep…
Global Poverty Revisited Using 2021 PPPs and New Data on Consumption
Recent improvements in survey methodologies have increased measured consumption in many low- and lower-middle-income countries that now collect a more comprehensive measure of household consumption. Faced with such methodological changes, countries have frequently revised upward their national poverty lines to make them appropriate for the new measures of consumption. This in turn affects the World Bank’s global poverty lines when they are period…
The World Bank’s New Inequality Indicator
The World Bank recently introduced a new key indicator to guide its work: the number of countries with high inequality, defined as a Gini index above 40. The new indicator was introduced as part of the new World Bank vision of ending poverty on a livable planet. This paper reviews why reducing inequality matters for ending poverty on a livable planet, summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of using the Gini index to track inequality, outline…
September 2023 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)
The September 2023 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. In particular, some welfare aggregates have been revised, and the CPI, national accounts, and population input data have been updated. This document explains these changes in detail and the reasoning behind them. Moreover, 63 new country-years have been added, bringing the total number of surveys to …
April 2022 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)
The April 2022 update to the newly launched Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. Some welfare aggregates have been changed for improved harmonization, and the CPI, national accounts, and population input data have been updated. This document explains these changes in detail and the reasoning behind them. Moreover, a large number of new country-years have been added, br…
Estimating a Poverty Line for Brazil based on the 2017/18 Household Budget Survey
This study applies the \n cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total \n poverty lines for the Brazilian case. Using detailed data on \n expenditures from a 2017/18 household budget survey and \n caloric information from the Brazilian Table of Food \n Composition, calorie intake is assigned to more than 1,400 \n items to estimate the cost per calorie for a representative \n group of the population. The preferred results estimate the \…
Social Inclusion in Uruguay
Communities and Human Settlements - Indigenous Communities Poverty Reduction - Inequality Social Development - Social Analysis Social Development - Social Inclusion & Institutions Poverty Reduction - Achieving Shared Growth
Assessing the Effects of Fiscal Policies on Poverty and Inequality
This study looks at the redistributive \n effects of fiscal policy -- in particular of direct taxation \n and expenditures -- in Uruguay. This fiscal incidence \n analysis applies a widely recognized methodology to \n household survey data and government data for fiscal year \n 2017 and compares the results with the policies seen in 2009 \n to study the evolution of the distributional impacts of \n fiscal policy in the country. The study finds ev…
Exploring the Sources of Downward Bias in Measuring Inequality of Opportunity
This study analyzes the extent of \n downward bias in the calculation of inequality of \n opportunity for continuous outcomes such as income. A \n typically recognized source of bias is the unobserved \n circumstances as there is a limited set of variables \n available in household and labor force surveys. Another \n previously overlooked source is the likely unobservable \n nature of top incomes. Using Monte Carlo simulations where \n the underl…
How Unfair is the Inequality of Wage Earnings in Russia? Estimates from Panel Data
This paper attempts to determine the extent to which inequality in wage earnings in the Russian Federation is unfair. Unlike other similar attempts that can, at best, produce a lower bound on the estimate of the share of inequality that is unfair, this paper exploits the longitudinal nature of the data to come up with a lower bound as well as an upper bound. The upper bound is further refined to take into account the indirect effect of circumstan…
Accelerating Poverty Reduction in a Less Poor World
This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different levels of initial poverty. The analysis uses country panel-data for 1980-2010. The results indicate that, as countries become less poor, inequality-reducing policies are likely to become relatively more effect…
The minimal impact of a large-scale financial education program in Mexico City
Family Structure and Child Food Insecurity
Objectives. We examined whether food insecurity was different for children in cohabiting or repartnered families versus those in single-mother or married-parent (biological) families. Methods. We compared probabilities of child food insecurity (CFI) across different family structures in 4 national data sets: the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), the Early Childhood Lo…
The minimal impact of a large-scale financial education program in Mexico City
Family Structure and Child Food Insecurity
Objectives. We examined whether food insecurity was different for children in cohabiting or repartnered families versus those in single-mother or married-parent (biological) families. Methods. We compared probabilities of child food insecurity (CFI) across different family structures in 4 national data sets: the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), the Early Childhood Lo…
Accelerating Poverty Reduction in a Less Poor World
This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different levels of initial poverty. The analysis uses country panel-data for 1980-2010. The results indicate that, as countries become less poor, inequality-reducing policies are likely to become relatively more effect…
The minimal impact of a large-scale financial education program in Mexico City
Family Structure and Child Food Insecurity
Objectives. We examined whether food insecurity was different for children in cohabiting or repartnered families versus those in single-mother or married-parent (biological) families. Methods. We compared probabilities of child food insecurity (CFI) across different family structures in 4 national data sets: the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), the Early Childhood Lo…
Exploring the Sources of Downward Bias in Measuring Inequality of Opportunity
This study analyzes the extent of \n downward bias in the calculation of inequality of \n opportunity for continuous outcomes such as income. A \n typically recognized source of bias is the unobserved \n circumstances as there is a limited set of variables \n available in household and labor force surveys. Another \n previously overlooked source is the likely unobservable \n nature of top incomes. Using Monte Carlo simulations where \n the underl…
How Unfair is the Inequality of Wage Earnings in Russia? Estimates from Panel Data
This paper attempts to determine the extent to which inequality in wage earnings in the Russian Federation is unfair. Unlike other similar attempts that can, at best, produce a lower bound on the estimate of the share of inequality that is unfair, this paper exploits the longitudinal nature of the data to come up with a lower bound as well as an upper bound. The upper bound is further refined to take into account the indirect effect of circumstan…
Social Inclusion in Uruguay
Communities and Human Settlements - Indigenous Communities Poverty Reduction - Inequality Social Development - Social Analysis Social Development - Social Inclusion & Institutions Poverty Reduction - Achieving Shared Growth
Assessing the Effects of Fiscal Policies on Poverty and Inequality
This study looks at the redistributive \n effects of fiscal policy -- in particular of direct taxation \n and expenditures -- in Uruguay. This fiscal incidence \n analysis applies a widely recognized methodology to \n household survey data and government data for fiscal year \n 2017 and compares the results with the policies seen in 2009 \n to study the evolution of the distributional impacts of \n fiscal policy in the country. The study finds ev…
Estimating a Poverty Line for Brazil based on the 2017/18 Household Budget Survey
This study applies the \n cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total \n poverty lines for the Brazilian case. Using detailed data on \n expenditures from a 2017/18 household budget survey and \n caloric information from the Brazilian Table of Food \n Composition, calorie intake is assigned to more than 1,400 \n items to estimate the cost per calorie for a representative \n group of the population. The preferred results estimate the \…
April 2022 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)
The April 2022 update to the newly launched Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. Some welfare aggregates have been changed for improved harmonization, and the CPI, national accounts, and population input data have been updated. This document explains these changes in detail and the reasoning behind them. Moreover, a large number of new country-years have been added, br…
September 2023 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)
The September 2023 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. In particular, some welfare aggregates have been revised, and the CPI, national accounts, and population input data have been updated. This document explains these changes in detail and the reasoning behind them. Moreover, 63 new country-years have been added, bringing the total number of surveys to …
The World Bank’s New Inequality Indicator
The World Bank recently introduced a new key indicator to guide its work: the number of countries with high inequality, defined as a Gini index above 40. The new indicator was introduced as part of the new World Bank vision of ending poverty on a livable planet. This paper reviews why reducing inequality matters for ending poverty on a livable planet, summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of using the Gini index to track inequality, outline…
Children in Monetary Poor Households
This paper presents the first estimates of extreme child poverty and child poverty using the World Bank’s recently revised international poverty lines. Using the international poverty line of $3.00 per day and the higher $8.30 per day poverty line (both expressed in 2021 purchasing power parity), the paper provides new results of the global and regional trends over 2014–24. The estimates show that 19.2 percent of children, approximately 412 milli…
June 2025 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)
The June 2025 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) introduces several important changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. The most important change is the adoption of the 2021 Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs). In addition, new data for India has been incorporated and the existing series adjusted for comparability. This document details the changes to underlying data and the methodological reasons behind them. Dep…
Global Poverty Revisited Using 2021 PPPs and New Data on Consumption
Recent improvements in survey methodologies have increased measured consumption in many low- and lower-middle-income countries that now collect a more comprehensive measure of household consumption. Faced with such methodological changes, countries have frequently revised upward their national poverty lines to make them appropriate for the new measures of consumption. This in turn affects the World Bank’s global poverty lines when they are period…
Economics (11 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (11 works) · Mathematics (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Inequality (8 works) · Poverty (8 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Econometrics (3 works)