Documents et rapports

When Aggregation Misleads : Bias in Unit-Level Small Area Estimates of Poverty with Aggregate Data (anglais)

This paper explores why small area poverty estimates from models at the household level that only use aggregate data as covariates, exhibit systematic bias. The analysis demonstrates that this bias stems...

Djibouti - Economic Management and Statistics Development for Policy Making Project : Additional Financing (anglais)

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...

Where Are All the Jobs ? A Machine Learning Approach for High Resolution Urban Employment Prediction in Developing Countries (anglais)

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...

Proximity without Productivity : Agglomeration Effects with Plant-Level Output and Price Data (anglais)

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...

Microdata Collection and Openness in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) : Introducing the MENA Microdata Access Indicator (anglais)

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...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Statistical Capacity Building Project - P157531 - Sequence No : 09 (anglais)

Trade, Internal Migration, and Human Capital : Who Gains from India’s IT Boom? (anglais)

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...

Publishing 2021 Census Tables Generated from Microdata Using Stata in mongoDB (anglais)

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...

Belarus - EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA- P167583- SUPPORT TO PREPARATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2019 POPULATION CENSUS IN BELARUS - Procurement Plan (anglais)

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Basic Education Strengthening and Transformation Project - P166744 - Sequence No : 02 (anglais)

Haiti - Statistical Capacity Building in Education Grant Project (anglais)

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...

Belarus - EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA- P167583- SUPPORT TO PREPARATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2019 POPULATION CENSUS IN BELARUS - Procurement Plan (anglais)

A Map of the Poor or a Poor Map ? (anglais)

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...

Belarus - EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA- P167583- SUPPORT TO PREPARATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2019 POPULATION CENSUS IN BELARUS - Procurement Plan (anglais)

Archipelagic Economies : Spatial Economic Development in the Pacific (Vol. 3 of 5) : Part 2 : Under the Looking Glass (anglais)

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...

West Bank and Gaza : Country Assistance Strategy for the Period FY22-FY25 - Chair Summary (Vol. 5) : Synthesis Chapter 4 : The PICs in 3D Spatial Development with a Pacific Twist (anglais)

Guatemala Jobs Diagnostic (anglais)

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...

West Bank and Gaza : Country Assistance Strategy for the Period FY22-FY25 - Chair Summary (Vol. 6) : Synthesis Chapter 5 : Under the Looking Glass - Socio-Economic Development on the Outer Islands (anglais)

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Statistical Capacity EU Grant - P169428 - Sequence No : 01 (anglais)

Belarus - EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA- P167583- SUPPORT TO PREPARATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2019 POPULATION CENSUS IN BELARUS - Procurement Plan (anglais)