The World Bank's Development Research Group has recently launched a new software platform for automated, faster economic analysis.

According to our colleagues, the new software package, ADePT (Automated DEC Poverty Tables), "simplifies and speeds up routine poverty analysis and helps to minimize errors. It also introduces new techniques and methods of applied economic analysis to a wider audience. It can be used as a tool for sensitivity analysis, data checking, and as an educational tool. By producing a standard set of tables and graphs, the program allows comparisons of poverty statistics across countries."

ADePT is free and can be easily downloaded from the Bank's website.

More information, and installation instructions.