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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 WIIDBlog
From the editor's desk: Focus on data
This month, a partnership between UNU-WIDER and the Groningen Growth and Development Center (GGDC) brings a new database on economic transformation public...
Data Economic Transformation Database Income inequalityBlog
Data for better tax policy analysis: Introducing the latest version of the Government Revenue Dataset
Thanks to the updated version of the Government Revenue Dataset ( GRD ) we are now able to gain a clear picture of tax and other revenue trends in over 190 countries over the past four decades, up until 2018...
Government revenue Taxation DataWorking Paper
Data, global development, and COVID-19: Lessons and consequencesThe COVID-19 pandemic holds at least seven lessons for the relationship between data-driven decision making, the use of artificial intelligence, and development...
Data science Data Artificial intelligenceProject
SOUTHMOD - simulating tax and benefit policies for development Phase 2
Theme: Transforming states
SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulation Tax-benefit policyWorking Paper
Trade liberalization and South African manufacturing: Looking back with dataThis paper provides a retrospective assessment of the effects of trade policies on South African manufacturing since the transition to democracy, examining the differences and commonalities in the views of economists in favour of and against an accel...
Trade policy Manufacturing Trade liberalizationProject
World Income Inequality Database (WIID)
Theme: Transforming societies
Inequality Equality Income inequality
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Revenue data like you’ve never seen it before: Introducing the GRD Explorer Let’s face it, data is important. It sits at the core of almost everything that we in the development economics research community do. However, the way in which we use, share, understand, interpret and present data is more important still...
Government revenue Taxation DataWorking Paper
Assessing the quality of the income data used in SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation modelIn this paper we explore the income data in two surveys that underpin a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model...
Tax-benefit microsimulation Income distribution Data