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Measuring the statistical capacity of nations
Cameron, Grant J.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Mustafa, Dinc; … - 2019
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...
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Stocktaking of global forced displacement data
Sarzin, Zara - 2017
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Estimating small area population density using survey data and satellite imagery : an application to Sri Lanka
Engstrom, Ryan; Newhouse, David Locke; Soundararajan, Vidhya - 2019
Country-level census data are typically collected once every 10 years. However, conflict, migration, urbanization, and natural disasters can cause rapid shifts in local population patterns. This study uses Sri Lankan data to demonstrate the feasibility of a bottom-up method that combines...
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A novel approach to the automatic designation of predefined census enumeration areas and population sampling frames : a case study in Somalia
Qader, Sarchil; Lefebvre, Veronique; Ninneman, Amy; … - 2019
Enumeration areas are the operational geographic units for the collection, dissemination, and analysis of census data and are often used as a national sampling frame for various types of surveys. Traditionally, enumeration areas are created by manually digitizing small geographic units on...
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Small area estimation of poverty under structural change
Lange, Simon; Pape, Utz Johann; Pütz, Peter - 2018
Small area poverty maps allow for the design of policies based on spatial differences in welfare. They are typically estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper presents a new method which allows for the estimation of...
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A production function-based policy simulation model of perennial commodity markets
Akiyama, Takamasa; Coleman, Jonathan Roger - 1993
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An economic analysis of capital flight from Nigeria
Ajayi, Simeon I. - 1992
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The evolution of poverty and welfare in Nigeria, 1985 - 92
Canagarajah, Sudharshan; Ngwafon, John; Thomas, Saji - 1997
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Assessing the economic impacts of an economic partnership agreement on Nigeria
Andriamananjara, Soamiely; Brenton, Paul; Uexküll, Jan … - 2009
"This study discusses potential economic implications for Nigeria of an Economic Partnership Agreement with the … imports into Nigeria will be slight. This is in part because the Agreement will likely allow the most protected sectors to be … discriminatory nature of the EPA, which generates a negative welfare impact of the tariff reforms. One way for Nigeria to limit these …
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Oil and the propensity to armed struggle in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria
Oyefusi, Aderoju - 2007
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