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The Great African Data Debate
24 September 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén At the recent UNU-WIDER conference here in Helsinki on inclusive growth in Africa, the quality of national...
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Poverty and Inclusive Growth in the Light of the Quintile Income Statistic
9 December 2013 S. Subramanian 1 Introduction It appears that the World Bank is planning to maintain and disseminate systematic information on a...
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Imperfect Data Increases Uncertainty
9 May 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén The world is a complex place where risk and uncertainty are an everyday challenge. Decision makers at all levels say...
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Inclusive Growth in Africa
24 September 2013 Roger Williamson Another big weekend for UNU-WIDER. The stage was well set on Thursday 19 September for a consideration of...
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The global consumption and income projectWe introduce two separate datasets—the Global Consumption Dataset and the Global Income Dataset—containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version...
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Tax revenue data in Africa: the Government Revenue Dataset and African Tax Outlook in comparisonThis paper compares two important sources of tax revenue statistics for African countries, namely the Africa Tax Administration Forum’s African Tax Outlook and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research's...
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The South African personal income tax base, 2011–2018Tax administration statistics now provide considerably more complete and reliable measures of South African personal income and its distribution than the available household or other survey sources. However, there are difficulties in using tax data...
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The Viet Nam SME data 2005-15Part of Book Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam
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Unravelling a Conceptual Muddle: India's Poverty Statistics in the Light of Basic Demand TheoryFor some time now, there has been growing dissatisfaction with the conceptual basis of India’s official poverty statistics, with specific reference to the manner in which the Planning Commission has sought to address the ‘identification’ problem in...
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Trends in Asylum Migration to Industrialized CountriesThe purpose of this paper is to outline trends and patterns in movements of asylum-seekers to Western so-called industrialized countries from 1990-2001. The paper begins by characterizing three distinct phases of asylum migration since the end of the...
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