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A ‘data revolution’ for sustainable development leaves gaps on inequality
Among the many things said about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the description by the President of the UN General Assembly’s 70 th session, Mogens Lykketoft, that the SDGs represented ‘an unprecedented statistical challenge&...
Inequality Quantitative research methodology Qualitative research methodologyJournal Article
Experimental and Non-Experimental Methods in Development Economics: A Porous DialecticPart of Journal Special Issue Experiments in Development Economics
Economic development Qualitative research methodology Regression analysisJournal Article
Ancillary Studies of Experiments: Opportunities and ChallengesPart of Journal Special Issue Experiments in Development Economics
Qualitative research methodologyJournal Article
Developing and Evaluating Governance Indexes: 10 QuestionsRecent years have seen a proliferation of composite indicators or indexes of governance and their use in research and policy-making. This article proposes a framework of 10 questions to guide both the development and evaluation of such indexes...
Index numbers (Economics) Public administration Qualitative research methodologyWorking Paper
Aid and the Environment in Africa: A Synthesis of Eight Case StudiesThis study seeks to understand what aid flows have been doing to the environment in eight countries in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Environment Qualitative research methodologyBlog
What can we Learn from Popular Representations of Development?17 October 2013 David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock When asked why she wrote novels about poverty rather than gather what we would now call ‘hard’ data, the Victorian novelist George Eliot famously responded that ‘a pi...
Economic development Qualitative research methodology Mass mediaWorking Paper
Evaluating Governance Indexes: Critical and Less Critical QuestionsRecent years have seen a proliferation of ‘composite indicators’ or ‘indexes’ of governance...
Index numbers (Economics) Public administration Qualitative research methodologyBlog
What Does Good Governance Mean? Rachel M. Gisselquist Almost all major development institutions today say that promoting good governance is an important part of their agendas...
Qualitative research methodology Quantitative research methodology Institutional economicsBook Chapter
Participatory Approaches and the Measurement of Human Well-beingFrom the book: Human Well-being
Poverty measurement Methodology (Poverty) Qualitative research methodologyBook Chapter
Measuring Food Security Using Respondents' Perception of Food Consumption AdequacyFrom the book: Food Security
Food security Household survey Qualitative research methodologyWorking Paper
Measuring Food Security Using Respondents' Perception of Food Consumption AdequacyFood security is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. As such, its measurement may entail and benefit from the combination of both ‘qualitative-subjective’ and ‘quantitative-objective’ indicators...
Food security Household survey Qualitative research methodologyWorking Paper
Participatory Approaches and the Measurement of Human Well-beingThis paper considers the use of participatory methods in international development research, and asks what contribution these can make to the definition and measurement of well-being...
Poverty measurement Methodology (Poverty) Qualitative research methodologyJournal Article
The link between firm-level innovation and aggregate productivity growth: A cross-country examinationA broad definition of innovation input is used, in which R&D is one of several sources of innovation...
Business enterprises Economic development Economic growth