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A ‘data revolution’ for sustainable development leaves gaps on inequality
Among the many things said about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the description by the President of the UN General Assembly’s 70th...
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Participatory Approaches and the Measurement of Human Well-beingThis paper considers the use of participatory methods in international development research, and asks what contribution these can make to the definition and measurement of well-being. It draws on general lessons arising from the project level, two...
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Measuring Food Security Using Respondents' Perception of Food Consumption AdequacyFood security is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. As such, its measurement may entail and benefit from the combination of both ‘qualitative-subjective’ and ‘quantitative-objective’ indicators. Yet, the evidence on the external validity of...
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Evaluating Governance IndexesRecent years have seen a proliferation of ‘composite indicators’ or ‘indexes’ of governance. Such measures can be useful tools for analysing governance, making public policy, building scientific knowledge, and even influencing ruling elites, but some...
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What can we Learn from Popular Representations of Development?17 October 2013 David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock When asked why she wrote novels about poverty rather than gather what we would now...
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Ancillary Studies of ExperimentsPart of Journal Special Issue Experiments in Development Economics
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Measuring Food Security Using Respondents' Perception of Food Consumption AdequacyPart of Book Food Security
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Developing and Evaluating Governance IndexesRecent years have seen a proliferation of composite indicators or indexes of governance and their use in research and policy-making. This article proposes a framework of 10 questions to guide both the development and evaluation of such indexes. In...
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Participatory Approaches and the Measurement of Human Well-beingPart of Book Human Well-being
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What Does Good Governance Mean?
Rachel M. Gisselquist Almost all major development institutions today say that promoting good governance is an important part of their agendas. The...
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The link between firm-level innovation and aggregate productivity growthA broad definition of innovation input is used, in which R&D is one of several sources of innovation. A quantitative innovation output measure is used in the analysis, which is based on a large representative sample of firms, including small firms...
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Experimental and Non-Experimental Methods in Development EconomicsPart of Journal Special Issue Experiments in Development Economics
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Aid and the Environment in AfricaThis study seeks to understand what aid flows have been doing to the environment in eight countries in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa. Total aid to these countries’ environmental sectors for the 2000s decade is about US$10.17 billion and...
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