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Exploring youth’s role and engagement in African rural economies
A boy at work in a maize field, Ethiopia. Photo credit: C. Robinson/CIMMYT How do young rural Africans engage in the rural economy? How important is farming relative to non-farm activities and the...
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Alternative methods to produce poverty estimates when household consumption...
Poverty reduction consistently ranks among the most prioritized tasks of developing countries as well as the international community. Indeed, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recently adopted...
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From Data Day to a Data Decade
The World Bank’s inaugural Data Day had something for everyone and was a huge win for data: more than 1,000 participants voted with their feet and their time to show their commitment for data—and...
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Why it's never too early to think about getting old
This blog is a part of a series using data from the Women, Business and the Law project. The data explores legal and regulatory challenges faced by women through different stages of their working...
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Do household surveys face a non-response crisis? Not necessarily, according...
In a recently published article, Meyer et al 2015 argue that household surveys are in crisis, in part due to rising rates of unit and item non-response, which could imply serious biases in inferences...
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Protecting women from domestic violence: a key piece of the gender equality...
This blog is a part of a series using data from the Women, Business and the Law project. The data explores legal and regulatory challenges faced by women through different stages of their working...
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The unequal burden for new mothers in the Caribbean
This blog is a part of a series using data from the Women, Business and the Law project. The data explores legal and regulatory challenges faced by women through different stages of their working...
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What is TFSCB?
Today we’re launching a new blog series, “TFSCB: Statistics for a Better World.” Read on to learn about what the TFSCB is and how it catalyzed sustainable development in data poor countries. The Trust...
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Alternative methods to produce poverty estimates: When household consumption...
In Part I of this blog, we discuss the question of how to monitor progress in reducing poverty when the poorest countries of the world are more likely to be missing data for poverty comparisons over...
View ArticleMeasles vaccine coverage at 85% globally
Measles is a highly contagious disease. It’s also mostly preventable thanks to vaccines and widespread immunization. In 2000, measles was declared eliminated in the United States. Since then, it has...
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