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Alternative Methods to Produce Poverty Estimates: When Household Consumption Data Are Not Available (Part II)
In Part I of this blog, the authors discuss the question of how to monitor progress in reducing poverty when the poorest countries of the world are more likely to be missing data for poverty comparisons over time. Drawing from the paper, in this second part of the blog they offer a typology of missing data for poverty comparisons and describe the corresponding candidate imputation approaches for addressing the missing data problem.Read More
Alternative Methods to Produce Poverty Estimates When Household Consumption Data Are Not Available (Part I)
Poverty reduction consistently ranks among the most prioritized tasks of developing countries as well as the international community. However, effective and efficient poverty eradication entails the prerequisite of accurate poverty measurement.Read More
Exploring Youth’s Role and Engagement in African Rural Economies
How do young Africans engage in the rural economy? Learn how an interdisciplinary research project is answering this question with LSMS data.Read More
Training for Malawi’s 2019/20 Surveys Has Commenced!
Training for Malawi’s Fifth Integrated Household Survey (IHS5) 2019/20 and the Integrated Household Panel Survey (IHPS) 2019 has commenced! The Malawi National Statistical Office (NSO), in collaboration with the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study, will field the IHS5 from April 2019 to April 2020.Read More
FAO, World Bank Provide Update on Data-Smart Agriculture Initiative
Members of the 50 x 2030 Initiative for Data-Smart Agriculture, which aims to improve data for SDG 2 implementation in 50 countries, provided a briefing at the sidelines of the 50th session of the UN Statistical Commission.Read More
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WB Working Paper
Improving the Measurement of Rural Women's Employment: Global Momentum and Survey Research Priorities
Rural economies are in transition around the world; in many countries, improved technology and linkages across sectors have expanded access to markets and accelerated production for some farmers. At...
