Documents et rapports
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How Well Did Real-Time Indicators Track Household Welfare Changes in Developing Countries during the COVID-19 Crisis? (anglais)
This paper investigates the extent to which real-time indicators derived from internet search, cell phones, and satellites predict changes in household socioeconomic indicators across approximately 300...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10916 Date du document: 18 septembre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Newhouse, David,Swindle, Rachel,Wang, Shun,Merfeld, Joshua David,Pape, Utz Johann,Tafere, Kibrom,Weber, Michael
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Small Area Estimation of Monetary Poverty in Mexico Using Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning (anglais)
Estimates of poverty are an important input into policy formulation in developing countries. The accurate measurement of poverty rates is therefore a first-order problem for development policy. This paper...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10175 Date du document: 14 septembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Newhouse, David Locke,Merfeld, Joshua David,Ramakrishnan, Anusha Pudugramam,Swartz, Tom,Lahiri, Partha
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How Well Can Real-Time Indicators Track the Economic Impacts of a Crisis Like COVID-19 ? (anglais)
This paper presents evidence on the extent to which a set of real-time indicators tracked changes in gross domestic product across 142 countries in 2020. The real-time indicators include Google mobility...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10080 Date du document: 13 juin 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ten, Gi Khan,Merfeld, Joshua David,Hirfrfot, Kibrom Tafere,Newhouse, David Locke,Pape, Utz Johann
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The Welfare Implications of COVID-19 for Fragile and Conflict-Affected Areas (anglais)
Understanding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on households’ welfare in areas at the admin-1 level subject to fragility, conflict, and violence is important to inform programs and policies in this...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10081 Date du document: 13 juin 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Tabakis, Chrysostomos,Ten, Gi Khan,Merfeld, Joshua David,Newhouse, David Locke,Pape, Utz Johann,Weber, Michael
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Structural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
Economic development is typically accompanied by the movement of labor from agriculture to the non-agricultural sector, a pattern commonly referred to as structural transformation. This note aims to better...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 145807 Date du document: 1 février 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Deudibe, Gildas Bopahbe,Merfeld, Joshua David,Ndoutamou, Justin,Newhouse, David Locke