The development objective of the Economic Management and Statistics Development for Policy Making Project for Djibouti is to strengthen the capacity of the National Institute of Statistics of Djibouti...
Globally, both people and economic activity are increasingly concentrated in urban areas. Yet, for the vast majority of developing country cities, little is known about the granular spatial organization...
Recent literature suggests that the positive impact of population density on wages, the canonical measure of agglomeration effects, is multiples higher in developing countries than in advanced economies...
This paper uses a “mystery client” approach and visits the websites of national statistical offices and international microdata libraries to assess whether foundational microdata sets for countries in...
How do trade shocks affect welfare and inequality when human capital is endogenous? Using an external IT demand shock and detailed internal migration data from India, this paper first document that both...
The 2001 and 2011 censuses results were published in the form of a large number of MS-Excel files in India. These tables are available in the Census Digital Library. To be made accessible via API, the...
Ratings for the Statistical Capacity Building in Education Grant Project for Haiti were as follows: outcome was satisfactory, Bank performance was highly satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation (M...
This paper evaluates the performance of different small area estimation methods using model and design-based simulation experiments. Design-based simulation experiments are carried out using the Mexican...
This study explores the far-reaching economic consequences of the archipelagic geography of most Pacific Island countries (PICs). The dispersion of populations across thousands of miles of ocean and hundreds...
Building back better’ has become a popular theme guiding the world’s post-Covid19 recovery efforts; in few middle-income countries this appears to be more pressing than in Guatemala. Over a decade of lackluster...
Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning environment. This paper examines the effects of low-cost, group-based parental involvement...