• The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Inequality and Poverty, Daniel Gerszon Mahler ⓡ Nishant Yonzan ⓡ Christoph Lakner, 2022, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 10198. Updated version.

• A New Distribution Sensitive Index for Measuring Welfare, Poverty, and Inequality, Aart Kraay ⓡ Christoph Lakner ⓡ Berk Özler ⓡ Benoit Decerf ⓡ Dean Jolliffe ⓡ Olivier Sterck ⓡ Nishant Yonzan, 2023, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 10470. 

• Predicting Income Distributions from Almost Nothing, Daniel Mahler, Marta Schoch, Christoph Lakner, Minh Nguyen and Jose Montes, 2025, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 11034.

• Global Poverty Revisited Using 2021 PPPs and New Data on Consumption, Elizabeth Foster ⓡ Dean Jolliffe ⓡ Gabriel Lara Ibarra ⓡ Christoph Lakner ⓡ Samuel Tetteh-Baah, 2025, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 11137. 

• Constructing Comparable Global Poverty Trends, Daniel Mahler, Elizabeth Foster, Christoph Lakner, Zander Prinsloo, Rostand Tchouakam Mbouendeu and Samuel Tetteh-Baah, 2025, World Bank Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note. No. 45.

Permanent working papers

• Distribution of consumption expenditure in East Asia, La-Bhus Fah Jirasavetakul and Christoph Lakner, 2017, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7968.

  • Background paper for Riding the Wave: An East Asian Miracle for the 21st Century.

• The Effect of New PPP Estimates on Global Poverty: A First Look, Aziz Atamanov, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah and Judy Yang, 2020, World Bank Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note. No. 12.

• COVID-19 and Economic Inequality : Short-Term Impacts with Long-Term Consequences, Ambar Narayan, Alexandru Cojocaru, Sarthak Agrawal, Tom Bundervoet, Maria Davalos, Natalia Garcia, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Veronica Montalva Talledo, Andrey Ten, Nishant Yonzan, 2022, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9902.

• What Do We Know about Poverty in India in 2017/18?, Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Christoph Lakner, Laura Moreno Herrera, David Locke Newhouse, Sutirtha Sinha Roy, Nishant Yonzan, 2022, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9931.

  • Background paper for Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020: Reversals of Fortune.

• The World Bank’s New Inequality Indicator: The Number of Countries with High Inequality, Cameron Haddad, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Ruth Hill, Christoph Lakner, Gabriel Lara Ibarra, 2024, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 10796.