The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...

This dataset presents reference statistics (GDP, Total Government Expenditure, deflators, etc.) that are used to calculate some of the indicators on educational expenditure included in the indicators dataset.

Am 16. September 2000 hat Ernst Hagemann sein 70. Lebensjahr vollendet. Aus Anlaß dieses Tages und in Dankbarkeit für sein Engagement der Gründung und Erhaltung des Iserlohn-Kreises sowie der Anerkennung seines Lebenswerkes im Bereich der China-Forschung widmen ihm Freunde und Kollegen im...

"The measurement infrastructure for the production of economic statistics in the United States largely was established in the middle part of the 20th century. As has been noted by a number of commentators, the data landscape has changed in fundamental ways since this infrastructure was...