Every year the World Bank produces up to 15 poverty assessments. Almost every poverty assessment entails significant time and resources devoted to the production of a reasonably standard set of tables and graphs with basic statistics. The ADePT software is designed to simplify and speed-up this work. ADePT allows users to free up resources for other activities, including drawing policy implications from the empirical evidence. It also helps to minimize human errors, and to introduce new techniques and methods of applied economic analysis to a wide audience of practitioners. ADePT can be used as a tool for sensitivity analysis, data checking, and as an educational tool. The program should also be helpful in the situation of the limited access to the micro data. By producing a standard set of tables and graphs the program allows standardizing the poverty statistics among the countries opening the possibilities for the research on intra-country poverty comparisons. Currently there are four modules developed based on ADePT software plaform. ADePT POVERTY Version 2.5 available The first product developed on that platform, named ADePT (Automated DEC Poverty Tables), was launched in June 2007. ADePT allows users to produce print-ready tables and graphs with standard poverty and inequality statistics. The tasks that could take several weeks of a qualified consultant work could be accomplished within minutes using ADePT. The automatically-generated output eliminates the possibility of human errors in the calculations. The current version of ADePT POVERTY accepts individual level data and generates tables and graphs on poverty, inequality, decompositions of poverty changes, poverty profiles by socio-demographic categories, consumption regressions, poverty simulations and sensitivity analysis. ADePT LABOR ADePT LABOR is a tool for the automated analysis of the Labor Market Issues. The program allows users to produce a set of tables and graphs with labor market indictors that can help assessing current labor market conditions in low- and middle-income countries and understanding of how labor market conditions have evolved over time. These graphs and tables were identified in "A guide for Assessing Labor Market Conditions in Developing Countries" developed by HDNSP, PREMPR and HDNED as well as those set forth in "The Role of Employment and Labor Income in Shared Growth: what to look for and How". Specific definitions of the indicators have been refined based on the results of pilot studies conducted in eight countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, Jordan, Madagascar, Morocco, and Senegal. ADePT MAPS This module is designed to help users to output any economic indicator on a geographical country map by combining GIS files of geographic information with the user-provided datasets (LSMS-, DHS-, LFS-, or any other types of surveys). For example, using the household survey data, the user can create a map of a country with regional Gini, regional map of any FGT poverty measures, wages, health indicators, etc. The main difference of ADEPT MAPS from the specialized mapping software is that it is run in Stata, is very simple, and allows users with a very limited experience in Stata programming to generate print-quality maps. These maps could be useful addition to many reports produced by the Bank. We plan to have the files with coordinates for the most countries in the World in our web depository. ADePT P-LINES The program facilitates the construction of poverty lines using the standard data from LSMS or household surveys. The World Bank has, to some extent, the standard approach to calculating the poverty lines (Ravallion 1992). While the main theoretical principles of this approach are well-understood, the practical application of these principles leaves a lot of discretion to the researcher. ADePT P-LINES module allows the poverty practitioners to easily generate the whole spectrum of poverty lines to analyze (in a graphical form and in tabulations) the impact of different assumptions on the value of poverty line and on the resulting poverty profiles.
The ADePT software is created in the Poverty Team of the Development Research Group, Development Economics SVP by the group led by Michael Lokshin, Senior Economist, and included Zurab Sajaia and Sergiy Radyakin. The project is under guidance of Martin Ravallion, Director of DECRG.
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