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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 methodology
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Quantitative methods for applied economic analysis
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Inequality in Latin America and the Importance of Data - An Interview with Nora Lustig
In this interview Professor Nora Lustig , Samuel Z...
Education Equality and inequality Fiscal policyJournal Article
A Graphical Approximation to Generalization: Definitions and DiagramsPart of Journal Special Issue Experiments in Development Economics
Mathematical economics Quantitative research methodologyJournal Article
First Order Dominance Analysis: Child Wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of CongoThis paper performs a multidimensional first order dominance analysis of child wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)...
Children Poverty measurement Methodology (Poverty)Working Paper
Home-grown and grassroots-based strategies for determining inequality towards policy action: Rwanda’s Ubudehe approach in perspectiveSurvey-based tools for determining inequality in Africa south of the Sahara have been critiqued for being too expensive, and oftentimes unsuitable to the realities of the region...
Economic policy Equality and inequality Household surveyBlog
Researching and Reporting on Global Wealth – Two Interviews with Anthony Shorrocks 30 October 2014 by Roger Williamson In this interview Professor Anthony Shorrocks describes the methodology to research global household wealth, developed by him and colleagues when he was Director of UNU-WIDER...
Economic growth Equality and inequality Quantitative research methodologyBlog
Aid, Growth, and Other Issues – An Interview with Finn Tarp 11 September 2014 by Roger Williamson In this interview Finn Tarp, Director of UNU-WIDER , discusses the evidence uncovered in the aid and growth and other themes of the ReCom – Research and Communication on Foreign Aid programme, coordinated b...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic growth Quantitative research methodologyBlog
Inequality in Focus at UNU-WIDER27 August 2014 Jukka Pirttilä and Tony Addison The last few months have seen major research activity in the area of inequality at UNU-WIDER. An update of the World Income Inequality Database (WIID) was first published in June...
Equality and inequality Methodology (Poverty) Quantitative research methodologyBlog
Focus on Poverty: Big Data is no Shortcut to Equality 27 May 2014 Roger Williamson For a school prize in the 1960s, I insisted on having a book on the revolution taking place in traditional social life and the embrace of new trends...
Economic surveys Equality and inequality Methodology (Economics)Working 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 methodologyWorking Paper
Putting It All Together: Aggregating Impacts of School-Feeding Programmes on Education, Health and Nutrition: Two Proposed MethodologiesSchool-feeding is an important intervention to attract children to school and augment their learning. The benefits of school-feeding cover several domains...
Children Education HealthWorking Paper
‘Ground-Truthing’ Chinese Development Finance in Africa: Field Evidence from South Africa and UgandaA new methodology, Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows (TUFF), allows us to systematically gather open-source information—e.g...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development International financeWorking Paper
First Order Dominance Analysis: Child Wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of CongoThis paper performs a multidimensional first order dominance (FOD) analysis of child wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)...
Children Poverty measurement Methodology (Poverty)Working Paper
A Graphical Approximation to Generalization: Definitions and DiagramsThe fundamental problem of external validity is not to generalize from one experiment, so much as to experimentally test generalizable theories. That is, theories that explain the systematic variation of causal effects across contexts...
Mathematical economics Quantitative research methodology