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The Reliability of Small Area Estimation Prediction Methods to Track PovertyTracking poverty is predicated on the availability of comparable consumption data and reliable price deflators. However, regular series of strictly comparable data are only rarely available...
Consumption Equality and inequality Poverty measurementWorking Paper
The Impact of Multiple Imputation of Coarsened Data on Estimates on the Working Poor in South AfricaSouth African household surveys typically contain coarsened earnings data, which consist of a mixture of missing earnings values, point responses and interval-censored responses...
Poverty measurement Methodology (Poverty) Quantitative research methodologyWorking Paper
Urban Myths and the Mis-use of Data that Underpin ThemThis paper describes the gaps and limitations in the data available on urban populations for many low- and middle-income nations and how this limits the accuracy of international comparisons – for instance of levels of urbanization and of the s...
Quantitative research methodology Rural planning Urban planningBook Chapter
Urban Myths and the Mis-use of Data that Underpin ThemFrom the book: Urbanization and Development
Quantitative research methodology Rural planning Urban planningBlog
UNU-WIDER: More Needed Than Ever
24 September 2009 Finn Tarp, New Director at UN University-WIDER* ‘Some of us believe in analysing, some of us believe in humanising’ - Donovan, Children of the World from Slow Down World In my student days in the early-to-mid 1970s in De...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Economic development projectsBook 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 methodologyWorking Paper
Humanitarian Emergencies: Indicators, Measurements, and Data ConsiderationsThis Research in Progress report is divided into two parts. Part I studies the operationalization and indicators of the different elements of complex humanitarian emergencies...
Malnutrition Population Quantitative research methodologyBook
Gender and Development in the Arab World - Women's Economic Participation: Patterns and PoliciesThis volume aims at remedying the relative dearth of studies addressing issues of women and development in Arab countries...
Labour Quantitative research methodology Methodology (Statistics)Book
Gender and Development in the Arab World - Women's Economic Participation: Patterns and PoliciesThis volume aims at remedying the relative dearth of studies addressing issues of women and development in Arab countries...
Labour Quantitative research methodology Methodology (Statistics)Book Chapter
Adapting to Undernourishment: The Biological Evidence and its ImplicationsFrom the book: The Political Economy of Hunger
Hunger Labour market MalnutritionWorking Paper
Adapting to Undernourishment: The Clinical Evidence and Its ImplicationsIn estimating the prevalence of undernourishment in a region or country it has been common practice to choose a benchmark - or, as some would say, a critical limit - which reflects nutrition requirements and then to calculate the percentage of the po...
Hunger Labour market Malnutrition