Blog

by Kyle McNabb June 2017

At the core of efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals lies a commitment to enhance domestic revenue mobilization. Strengthening capacity to...

• Tax
• Development
• Data

Working Paper

The Government Revenue Dataset (GRD) was launched in September 2014 and, in the few years since, has gone on to be recognized as the go-to source for researchers and policy makers seeking cross-country data on government revenues and taxes. However...

• Tax
• Fiscal policy
• Data

Journal Special Issue

This special issue focuses on a collaborative effort between the National Treasury and the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to employ administrative record data from SARS for economic policy analysis. It contains six research articles plus a...

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Economic policy

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Data

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Data

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Data

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Data

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Data

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Data

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• Data
• South Africa

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Data

Blog

by Aimable Nsabimana September 2023

Data is the key to informed decision-making in today's rapidly changing world. As nations strive to address complex economic challenges, data-driven...

• Economics
• Data
• Taxation

Working Paper

Despite the importance attributed to intergenerational educational mobility in the process of development, there remains little consensus on how mobility should be measured. We present analytical and empirical evidence regarding the sensitivity of...

• Mobility
• Measurement error
• Sample truncation

Technical Note

This 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). This technical note describes the first stage in constructing the new version...

• Data
• Inequality
• WIID

Technical Note

This note provides an overview of available cross-country data on ethnic conflict, tensions, and protests. First, it documents the steps taken in the selection of 16 different relevant data sources, before they are briefly described, and their...

• Data
• Ethnic conflict
• Ethnic tensions

Blog

by Amina Ebrahim June 2022

‘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...

• Tax compliance
• Capacity building
• Data

Research Brief

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. Three sets of motivations guide this joint effort...

• Social mobility
• Inequality & Human Development
• Human capital

Working Paper

It 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. Researchers working on the topic have various measures of ethnic dominance and exclusion...

• Exclusion
• Ethnicity
• Data

Journal Article

This study draws lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for the relationship between data-driven decision making and global development. The lessons are that: (i) users should keep in mind the shifting value of data during a crisis, and the pitfalls its...

• Data science
• Data
• Artificial intelligence

Blog

by Timothy Shipp March 2022

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...

• Data
• SDGs
• UNU-WIDER Annual Report

Working Paper

This 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. The ruling party’s claim that the state managed the COVID pandemic brilliantly seems more...

• Data
• Pandemic
• COVID-19

Research Brief

The 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. Three motivations guide...

• Social mobility
• Inequality & Human Development
• Human capital

Working Paper

Globally, there are several initiatives being undertaken to ensure the availability of information across countries that can be used to analyse the inequality phenomenon in and among countries. The data are easily accessible for use in comparative...

• Inequality measurement
• Data
• WIID

Book Chapter

Part of Book Tasks, Skills, and Institutions

• Data
• Earnings
• Methodology

Blog

by Timothy Shipp February 2021

This month, a partnership between UNU-WIDER and the Groningen Growth and Development Center (GGDC) brings a new database on economic transformation...

• Data
• Economic Transformation Database
• Income inequality

Technical Note

This 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). It aims at facilitating the analysis of inequality as well as progress in...

• Data
• Inequality
• WIID

Blog

by Carlos Gradín April 2021

There is a growing need to understand income inequality trends and how they interplay with other social, economic, and political outcomes, both at the...

• Inequality
• Equality
• Economic inequality

Research Brief

• Inequality
• Income inequality
• Global inequality

Blog

by Kyle McNabb February 2021

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...

• Government revenue
• Taxation
• Data

Working Paper

The 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
• Microsimulation

Working Paper

The COVID-19 pandemic holds at least seven lessons for the relationship between data-driven decision making, the use of artificial intelligence, and development. These are that (1) in a global crisis, the shifting value of data creates policy...

• Data science
• Data
• Artificial intelligence

Blog

by James Stewart March 2017

Policymakers often work in the dark, as they try to make real impact on people’s lives. If you don’t have good data, being worked on by good...

• Tax
• Data
• Firms