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Bootcamp for better tax policies in Africa
‘I intend to see a world in which tax policy research is based on evidence, and policy decisions are data-driven.’ This is an aspiration expressed by a participant of the WIDER Winter School 2022 ...
Tax compliance Capacity building DataWorking Paper
The COVID-19 pandemic and the state in BiharThis paper presents a critical analysis of official data related to COVID-19 in Bihar state, India, which points to the manipulation of data for political ends...
Data Pandemic COVID-19In the media
Above or below the poverty line – research on shifts in global poverty picked up by development media
COVID-19 Global poverty Precarity Workshop
Metadata and data curation training for revenue authoritiesAn online microdata and metadata management course is provided to 10 participants, representing researchers and tax experts at the revenue authorities in Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, and to three UNU-WIDER researchers. In the training participants...
Research Brief
Three key insights for research on social mobility in developing countriesThe volume, Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods, and Determinants , brings together leading scholars from a range of social science disciplines working on a variety of issues related to social mobility...
Social mobility Inequality & Human Development Human capitalBlog
Data for development
The first of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to end poverty in all its forms, everywhere. The monumental task — a long-time dream of humanity — is followed by 16 more goals under the 2030 Agenda...
Data SDGs UNU-WIDER Annual ReportWorking Paper
Ethnic dominance and exclusion: Unpacking cross-national dataIt is widely accepted that the distribution of power between ethnic groups within a country plays a key role in major social, political, and economic outcomes...
Exclusion Ethnicity DataResearch Brief
What do we need to know about social mobility in the Global South?The volume, Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods and Determinants, brings together leading scholars from several disciplines to advance research practice on social mobility...
Social mobility Inequality & Human Development Human capitalTechnical Note
Ethnic conflict, tensions, and protests: taking stock of available cross-country dataThis note provides an overview of available cross-country data on ethnic conflict, tensions, and protests...
Data Ethnic conflict Ethnic tensionsJournal Article
Data deprivations, data gaps and digital divides: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemicThis study draws lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for the relationship between data-driven decision making and global development...
Data science Data Artificial intelligenceWorking Paper
Exploring the quality of income data in two African household surveys for the purpose of tax-benefit microsimulation modelling: Imputing employment income in Tanzania and ZambiaThe quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or implausible values...
Income Imputation MicrosimulationWorking Paper
How far does the apple really fall from the tree?: Practical guidance on measuring intergenerational mobility from a simulation frameworkDespite the importance attributed to intergenerational educational mobility in the process of development, there remains little consensus on how mobility should be measured...
Mobility Measurement error Sample truncationTechnical Note
WIID Companion (May 2021): data selectionThis document is part of a series of technical notes describing the compilation of a new companion database that complements the World Income Inequality Database (WIID)...
Data Inequality WIIDResearch Brief
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New WIID Companion to improve the study of inequality
There is a growing need to understand income inequality trends and how they interplay with other social, economic, and political outcomes, both at the country level and worldwide...
Inequality Equality Economic inequalityTechnical Note
WIID Companion (March 2021): data selectionThis document is part of a series of technical notes describing the compilation of a new companion database that complements the World Income Inequality Database (WIID)...
Data Inequality WIID