Other writing

Reports:

• Atlas of Global Development 2026,

with several co-authors. 

• Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023,

with several co-authors. 

• World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives,

with several co-authors.

• Lesotho Poverty Assessment: Progress and Challenges in Reducing Poverty,

with Victor Sulla and Precious Zikhali

• Fragile and Conflict-Affected States: On the Frontlines of the Fight Against Poverty,

with Paul Corral, Alexander Irwin, Nandini Krishnan, and Tara Vishwanath.

• Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2018: Piecing Together the Poverty Puzzle,

with several co-authors.

• Fair Progress? Educational Mobility around the World 

with Alexandru Cojacaru, Rakesh Gupta, Christoph Lakner, Ambar Narayan, Silvia Redaelli, Stefan Thewissen & Roy Van der Weide.

Selected other writing:

Poverty

• Past, Present, and Future: 100 Years of Challenges in Tackling Extreme Poverty, in Atlas of Global Development 2026

• Book Review: Hierarchy of needs and the measurement of poverty and standards of living by Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber, Journal of Economic Inequality. 

• Measuring Global Extreme Poverty: Has the Goalpost Shifted? 

with Benoit Decerf, Christoph Lakner, Gabriel Ibarra, and Jonas Lønborg. 

• Behind the numbers: How we measure global poverty, 

with Kimberly Bolch. 

• Constructing Comparable Global Poverty Trends, 

with Elizabeth Foster, Christoph Lakner, Zander Prinsloo, Rostand Mbouendeu, and Samuel Tetteh-Baah.  

• How Improved Household Surveys Influence National and International Poverty Rates, 

with Elizabeth Foster and Samuel Tetteh-Baah. 

• The shifting gravity of global poverty.

Inequality

• A Kuznets curve for intergenerational mobility, 

with Roy van der Weide, Christoph Lakner, Ambar Narayan, and Rakesh Gupta.

• How Lesotho, one of the world's most unequal countries, became a lot more equal.

• Lower inequality: A critical measure to align development and climate goals, 

with Philip Wollburg, and Stephane Hallegatte. 

Climate

• Illustrating the gap between the global extreme poor and global emissions, 

with Cameron Haddad, Gabriel Ibarra, Haoyu Wu, and Minh Nguyen. 

• Is green growth more effective at reducing poverty than gray growth?

• High energy prices--who is most impacted and why? 

with Haoyu Wu, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Gabriel Ibarra, and Minh Nguyen.

Data

• Creating an Integrated National Data System -- Lessons from Estonia, Ghana, and Mexico, 

with Lucas Kitzmuller, Philip Wollburg, Dean Jolliffe, and Malar Veerappan. 

• How much should governments spend on data? 

with Dean Jolliffe, Talip Kilic, and Philip Wollburg.

• Navigating the independence and relevance of national statistical offices, 

with Dean Jolliffe, Talip Kilic, and Philip Wollburg. 

Other

• Time to stop referring to the "developing world", 

with Alaka Holla and Umar Serajuddin.

• Inequalities in Use of and Exposure to Artificial Intelligence, in Atlas of Global Development 2026, with He Wang and Michel Weber

• Global Hunger Nears One Billion, with Bo Andree, Umar Serajuddin, and Zacharey Carmichael

• How should countries set realistic and ambitious development targets? with Nishant Yonzan, Divyanshi Wadhwa, Umar Serajuddin, and Rossana TatulliBo Andree, Umar Serajuddin, and Zacharey Carmichael

• Internet Access in Sub-Saharan Africa, 

with Jose Montes and David Newhouse. 

• Nudge: A push in the right direction? 

In Danish, with Felix Sebastian Døssing and David Dreyer Lassen.