The World Bank's low-income threshold is based on the operational threshold for 'civil works preference'.
Sources
- How are the income group thresholds updated? (datahelpdesk.worldbank.org)
- https://www.cgdev.org/blog/what-does-it-mean-be-low-income (cgdev.org)
- https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/cdp/cdp_background_papers/bp2014_21.pdf (un.org)
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