Documentos e informes

Trauma Incidence and Emergency Medical Services in Malawi (Inglés)

This report provides insights into the current situation and overall burden of trauma and RTCs in Malawi, shares what we have learned about how to effectively run a digital trauma registry in a low-resource...

Climate Anomalies and International Migration : A Disaggregated Analysis for West Africa (Inglés)

Migration is one of the channels West African populations can use to adjust to the negative impacts of climate change. Using novel geo-referenced and high- frequency data, this study investigates the extent...

Applying Machine Learning and Geolocation Techniques to Social Media Data (Twitter) to Develop a Resource for Urban Planning (Inglés)

With all the recent attention focused on big data, it is easy to overlook that basic vital statistics remain difficult to obtain in most of the world. This project set out to test whether an openly available...

Urban Planning? : I Spy Crashes (Inglés)

Road traffic crashes (RTC) are the number one cause of death for children and young adults ages 5-29 years. On average, only seventeen percent of road traffic deaths are estimated to be reported in the...

Using Mobile Phone Data to Reduce Spread of Disease (Inglés)

While human mobility has important benefits for economic growth, it can generate negative externalities. This paper studies the effect of mobility on the spread of disease in a low-incidence setting when...

Predicting Dynamic Patterns of Short-Term Movement (Inglés)

Short-term human mobility has important health consequences, but measuring short-term movement using survey data is difficult and costly and use of mobile phone data to study short-term movement is only...

Smart and Safe Kenya Transport (SMARTTRANS) (Inglés)

Science for Impact : Better Evidence for Better Decisions – The Dime Experience (Inglés)

The Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Group generates high-quality and operationally relevant data and research to transform development policy, help reduce extreme poverty, and secure shared prosperity...

Science for impact : better evidence for better decisions (Inglés)

Impact Evaluation to Development Impact (i2i) is a multi-donor trust fund managed by Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) in the World Bank Research Group. It is designed to generate high-qualityand operationally...