Documentos e informes
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Reviewing Assessment Tools for Measuring Country Statistical Capacity (Inglés)
Country statistical capacity is increasingly recognized as crucial for development, but no academic study exists that reviews the available assessment tools. This paper offers the first review study that...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10717 Fecha del documento: 6 de marzo de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Dang,Hai-Anh H.,Pullinger,John James,Serajuddin,Umar,Stacy,Brian William
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Update of the Statistical Performance Indicators: What is New? (Inglés)
In January 2024, a new edition of the Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI) was released. This new edition covers SPI scores for 2020, 2021 and 2022. There were no changes to the framework, methodology...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 187040 Fecha del documento: 17 de enero de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Stacy,Brian William,Serajuddin,Umar
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Missing Evidence : Tracking Academic Data Use around the World (Inglés)
Data-driven research on a country is key to producing evidence-based public policies. Yet little is known about where data-driven research is lacking and how it could be expanded. This paper proposes a...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10673 Fecha del documento: 17 de enero de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Stacy,Brian William,Kitzmüller,Lucas,Wang,Xiaoyu,Mahler,Daniel Gerszon,Serajuddin,Umar
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Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI): Protocols for Quality Assurance (Inglés)
This document is prepared by the Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI) team at the World Bank Development Data Group. Following a brief summary of the SPI framework, methodology and data sources, the...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 187039 Fecha del documento: 17 de enero de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Stacy,Brian William,Dang,Hai-Anh H.,Pullinger,John James,Serajuddin,Umar,Wollburg,Philip Randolph
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Missing SDG Gender Indicators (Inglés)
The Sustainable Development Goal agenda lays out an ambitious set of 231 indicators to track progress. Countries continue to fall short in terms of reporting on the indicators in general, and this is particularly...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10544 Fecha del documento: 10 de agosto de 2023 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Beegle,Kathleen G.,Serajuddin,Umar,Stacy,Brian William,Wadhwa,Divyanshi
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When Is There Enough Data to Create a Global Statistic ? (Inglés)
To monitor progress toward global goals such as the Sustainable Development Goals, global statistics are needed. Yet cross-country data sets are rarely truly global, creating a trade-off for producers...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10034 Fecha del documento: 5 de mayo de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mahler,Daniel Gerszon,Serajuddin,Umar,Maeda,Hiroko
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Mind the Gap : Disparities in Assessments of Living Standards Using National Accounts and Household Surveys (Inglés)
Estimates of average per capita consumption and income from national accounts differ substantially from corresponding measures of consumption and income from household surveys. Using a new compilation...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9779 Fecha del documento: 22 de septiembre de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Prydz,Espen Beer,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Serajuddin,Umar
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Statistical Performance Indicators and Index : A New Tool to Measure Country Statistical Capacity (Inglés)
The World Bank’s Statistical Capacity Index has been widely employed to measure country statistical capacity since its inception two decades ago. This paper builds on the existing advantages of the Statistical...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9570 Fecha del documento: 19 de marzo de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Dang,Hai-Anh H.,Pullinger,John James,Serajuddin,Umar,Stacy,Brian William
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Measuring the Statistical Performance of Countries : An Overview of Updates to the World Bank Statistical Capacity Index (Inglés)
National statistical systems are facing significant challenges. These challenges arise from increasing demands for high quality and trustworthy data to guide decision making, coupled with the rapidly changing...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 157540 Fecha del documento: 18 de marzo de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Dang,Hai-Anh H.,Dinc,Mustafa,Dias,Juderica Zilla Josephine,Maeda,Hiroko,Pullinger,John James,Serajuddin,Umar,Stacy,Brian William,Wolde,Dereje Ketema
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Tracking the Sustainable Development Goals : Emerging Measurement Challenges and Further Reflections (Inglés)
The Sustainable Development Goals recently adopted by the United Nations represent an important step to identify shared global goals for development over the next two decades. Yet, the stated goals are...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS8843 Fecha del documento: 6 de mayo de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Dang,Hai-Anh H.,Serajuddin,Umar
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The Little Data Book on Gender 2019 (Inglés)
The Little Data Book on Gender 2019 illustrates the progress towards gender equality for 217 economies around the world. It provides comparable statistics for women and men for the years 2000 and 2017...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 136979 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kalimili,Bala Bhaskar Naidu,Kashiwase,Haruna,Kouame,Yao Kouadio Charles,Maeda,Hiroko,Pirlea,Ana Florina,Prydz,Espen Beer,Serajuddin,Umar,Suzuki,Emi,Wolde,Dereje Ketema,Rubiano Matulevich,Eliana Carolina
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The distributional impact of taxes and transfers : evidence from eight low- and middle-income countries (Inglés)
In addition to its impact on economic growth and macroeconomic stability, fiscal policy affects the distribution of income across households and individuals through the use of taxes and expenditures. As...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 119229 Fecha del documento: 24 de agosto de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Inchauste Comboni,Maria Gabriela,Lustig, Nora,Younger,Stephen D.,Khachatryan,Artsvi,Hill,Ruth,Tsehaye,Eyasu,Kahsay,Tassew Woldehanna,Cancho,Cesar A.,Bondarenko,Elena,Jellema,Jon Robbert,Wai-Poi,Matthew Grant,Afkar,Rythia,Alam,Shamma Adeeb,Serajuddin,Umar,Lopez-Calva,Luis-Felipe,Matytsin,Mikhail,Popova,Daria,Maboshe,Mashekwa,Purfield,Catriona Mary,Woolard,Ingrid Denise,Arunatilake,Nisha Kanthimathie
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Atlas of sustainable development goals 2017 from World Development Indicators (Inglés)
The maps, charts, and analyses in this Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017 are intended to present data trends and comparisons in an accessible and visually appealing way. Given the breadth and...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 114769 Fecha del documento: 17 de abril de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Serajuddin,Umar,Fantom,Neil James,Fu,Haishan,Purdie,Elizabeth,Pirlea,Ana Florina,Khokhar,Tariq Afzal,Tariku,Jomo,Whitby,Andrew Michael
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Costing household surveys for monitoring progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity (Inglés)
On October 15, 2015, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim announced the World Bank Group’s commitment to support the 78 poorest countries to implement a multi-topic household survey every three years...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7951 Fecha del documento: 24 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kilic,Talip,Serajuddin,Umar,Uematsu,Hiroki,Yoshida,Nobuo
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The World Bank's classification of countries by income (Inglés)
The World Bank has used an income classification to group countries for analytical purposes for many years. Since the present income classification was first introduced 25 years ago there has been significant...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7528 Fecha del documento: 4 de enero de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Fantom,Neil James,Serajuddin,Umar
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The little data book on gender 2016 (Inglés)
The Little Data Book on Gender 2016 is a quick reference for users interested in gender statistics. It presents sex-disaggregated data for more than 200 countries in a straightforward, country-by-country...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 113645 Fecha del documento: 28 de diciembre de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Feng,Juan,Hiraga,Masako,Kashiwase,Haruna,Maeda,Hiroko,Prince,William C.,Serajuddin,Umar,Suzuki,Emi,Wolde,Dereje Ketema,Yang,Junhe
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A global count of the extreme poor in 2012 : data issues, methodology and initial results (Inglés)
The 2014 release of a new set of purchasing power parity conversion factors (PPPs) for 2011 has prompted a revision of the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7432 Fecha del documento: 3 de octubre de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Chen,Shaohua,Dabalen,Andrew L.,Dikhanov,Yuri M.,Hamadeh,Nada,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Narayan,Ambar,Prydz,Espen Beer,Revenga,Ana L.,Sangraula,Prem Prasad,Serajuddin,Umar,Yoshida,Nobuo
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Global count of the extreme poor in 2012 : data issues, methodology and initial results (Inglés)
The 2014 release of a new set of purchasing power parity conversion factors (PPPs) for 2011 has prompted a revision of the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 125425 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Chen,Shaohua,Dabalen,Andrew L.,Dikhanov,Yuri M.,Hamadeh,Nada,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Narayan,Ambar,Prydz,Espen Beer,Revenga,Ana L.,Sangraula,Prem Prasad,Serajuddin,Umar,Yoshida,Nobuo
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Estimating poverty with panel data, comparably : an example from Jordan (Inglés)
Poverty estimates based on enumeration from a single point in time form the cornerstone for much of the literature on poverty. Households are typically interviewed once about their consumption or income...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7373 Fecha del documento: 21 de julio de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Serajuddin,Umar
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Energy subsidies reform in Jordan : welfare implications of different scenarios (Inglés)
Facing a fiscal crisis, Jordan initiated substantial petroleum subsidy reforms in 2012. The government has also long contemplated how to cut electricity subsidies, which surpass the fiscal burdens imposed...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7313 Fecha del documento: 17 de junio de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Atamanov,Aziz,Jellema,Jon Robbert,Serajuddin,Umar