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    1. How can I keep up to date with updates, additions, and revisions?

    2. How does the World Bank classify countries?

    3. Why do the estimates in the Subnational Population Database sometimes differ from official statistics?

    4. What are quintiles?

    5. How often is the Quarterly Public Sector Debt data updated?

    6. What is the difference between purchaser prices, producer prices (VAP), and basic prices (VAB)?

    7. How do you define remittances?

    8. Do you have data on World Bank interest rates by country?

    9. Which countries have reported data to Quarterly External Debt Statistics (SDDS)?

    10. Which countries have reported data to Quarterly External Debt Statistics (GDDS) ?

    11. What is an “international dollar”?

    12. What is the $2.15 poverty line, and based on this new measure, how many people are living in extreme poverty in the world?

    13. Why do countries revise their national accounts?

    14. I need a more comprehensive list of surveys and censuses conducted in low and middle-income countries. Where can I find that?

    15. How do I customize the Table in DataBank?

    16. What do we mean by microdata?

    17. How is the international poverty line derived? How is it different from national poverty lines?

    18. How do you extrapolate the PPP conversion factors estimated by the ICP?

    19. How can I learn more about a specific indicator?

    20. Why are Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) ratings only available from 2005 onwards?

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