Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis, World Bank, 2024 [co-lead]

A Fresh Take on Reducing Inequality and Enhancing Mobility in Malaysia, World Bank, 2025 [extended team]

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting Course, World Bank, 2022

Global Economic Prospects January 2022, World Bank, 2022

World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery, World Bank, 2022 [extended team]

Poverty, Median Incomes, and Inequality in 2021: A Diverging Recovery, World Bank [Ruth Hill, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Mahler, Ambar Narayan and Nishant Yonzan]

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020: Reversals of Fortune, World Bank, 2020 [primarily responsible for Chapter 1]

Contributor to COVID-19 and Human Capital: Europe and Central Asia Economic Update, World Bank, Office of the Chief Economist, Fall 2020.

A Global View of Inequality, Policy Research Talk, World Bank, September 2019.

Fair Progress? Economic Mobility Across Generations Around the World, World Bank, Equity and Development, 2018 [Ambar Narayan, Roy van der Weide, Alexandru Cojocaru, Christoph Lakner, Silvia Redaelli, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Rakesh Gupta N. Ramasubbaiah, Stefan Thewissen]: Full report; Overview; Data.

Contributor to Riding the Wave: An East Asian Miracle for the 21st Century, World Bank, East Asia and Pacific Regional Report, 2018.

Contributor to Eruptions of Popular Anger: The Economics of the Arab Spring and Its Aftermath [Elena Ianchovichina], MENA Development Report, World Bank, 2018.

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016: Taking on Inequality, World Bank, 2016 [primarily responsible for Chapter 4]

Contributor to Beegle, Christiaensen, Dabalen, and Gaddis (2016), Poverty in a Rising Africa. World Bank.

The incidence of subsidies to residential public services in Argentina: The subsidy system in 2014 and some alternatives, Series of technical reports of The World Bank in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, No. 7, 2016 [Christoph Lakner, Maria Ana Lugo, Jorge Puig, Leandro Salinardi and Martha Viveros]. Other version: CEDLAS working paper No. 201 (August, 2016).

Institutional arrangements for the production of poverty statistics [in Spanish], Series of technical reports of The World Bank in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, No. 8, 2016 [Christoph Lakner, Maria Ana Lugo, Alejandro Medina-Giopp and Martha Viveros].

Contributor to regional study on urbanization in Argentina: Leveraging the Potential of Argentine Cities: A Framework for Policy Action [Elisa Muzzini, Beatriz Eraso Puig, Sebastian Anapolsky, Tara Lonnberg, Viviana Mora], World Bank, 2016.

The Future of Residential Subsidies in Argentina: Reaching the Poor in a More Efficient and Less Costly Way [in Spanish], World Bank, Argentina Development Discussion Notes, 2015 [Andrea Coppola, Christoph Lakner, Bernardo Díaz de Astarloa, Verónica Raffo, Camila Rodríguez, Lucía Spinelli and Martha Viveros].

Rwanda Poverty Assessment [Tom Bundervoet, Christoph Lakner and Patricia Geli], World Bank, 2015.

Contributor to A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and the Twin Goals, Policy Research Report, World Bank, 2015.