Thanks, all, for your help on finding this information.

The best analyses I have found (in regard to the World Bank poverty
measure that I was most interested in)
are in a series of papers (and the references in these) co-authored by
Sanjay Reddy:
http://www.columbia.edu/~sr793/techpapers.html

Reddy's arguments that poverty threshholds should be set higher seem
beside the point to me:
poverty is an inherently relative concept...
But his papers are excellent in describing a) how the data are
collected, and
b) what is done to the data after they are collected.


Irfan Nooruddin wrote:
> Nothing exactly on that topic comes to mind, but here are two
> possibilities:
>
> (1) Yoshiko Herrera and Devesh Kapur. "Improving Data Quality: Actors,
> Incentives, and Capabilities."
> http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eherrera/YHDK050802.pdf
>
> (2) Michael L. Ross. "Is Democracy Good for the Poor?"
> http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/faculty/ross/Does%20Democracy%20Reduce%20IMR%20-%20full%20version.pdf
>
> (Tackles the question from the perspective of selection bias induced by
> differential patterns of missing data for indicators of infant mortality
> and the like.)
>
> Cheers, Irfan
>
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> Gary Klass wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for articles, commentaries or reports on data collection
>> practices and the reliability of data reported for developing countries
>> in the United Nations Human Development Reports and\or the World Bank
>> World Development Indicators.
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