LMICS: The Luxembourg Middle-Income Countries Study
For the last 26 years, LIS has gathered and harmonized income datasets from over 30 mostly high-income countries. LIS is now expanding its global reach, adding datasets from middle-income countries.
With support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the EU Eurosocial Fund, and in collaboration with the World Bank, LIS has nearly completed a pilot project involving the harmonizing of five income datasets from Latin America. These datasets -- from Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, and Uruguay – will be added to the LIS database in 2009.
With further support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, we have begun the process of adding approximately 15 more middle-income countries, and a few selected low-income countries.