Attals of SDG 2020

The 2020 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: Stories and insights through innovative visuals

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Haishan Fu
Florina Pirlea
Umar Serajuddin
Divyanshi Wadhwa
Matthew Welch
Andrew Whitby
Image of a child with harvested cococa

Maps to the future: How can soil map data be used by smallholder cocoa farmers?

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Sun Hwa Song
Leslie Ricketts
Siddhesh Kaushik
Chart showing number of data sources used by DIME projects throughout the years

How can we improve the quality of big data for development economics research? Experiences from traditional data collection can help!

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Luiza Andrade
Maria Jones
Sveta Milusheva
Leonardo Viotti
Chart: Countries in which women face fewer legal barriers to participating in the economy often have a higher female labor force participation rate

Progress towards gender equality under the law is being made, but legal barriers to women’s full economic participation remain

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Marie Caitriona Hyland
man Gathering survey data on the field.

Working hard and not being counted? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa on redefining employment

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Isis Gaddis
Gbemisola Oseni
Amparo Palacios-Lopez
Janneke Pieters
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Food security in the face of COVID-19: Evidence from Africa

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Sydney Gourlay
Akuffo Amankwah
Alberto Zezza

International Comparison Program

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global trading blocs

Global trading blocs through the lens of ICP 2017 results

chart: Employment in agriculture has declined as higher productivity sectors have grown in Asia and Africa

Updated PPP-based productivity measures show steep increase in regions transitioning out of agricultural-heavy economies

Chart: ICP classifications

How does the ICP measure price levels across the world?

Chart: middle income economies

The size of the world economy in 2019: A baseline from which to measure the impact of COVID-19 and track economic recovery

Chart: Tracking GDP in PPP terms shows rapid rise of China and India

Tracking GDP in PPP terms shows rapid rise of China and India

Data Charts

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脆弱性・紛争の影響下（FCS）と非FCSそれぞれに居住する貧困層の数（単位：100万人）

What could stop the world from ending poverty? Think fragility and conflict

chart: 1 in 3 businesses owned by women

Women entrepreneurs needed—stat!

Countries with low access to basic handwashing facilities are concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa

Many homes in low- and lower middle-income countries lack basic handwashing facilities

Poverty rates by Fragility and Conflict Status (FCS)

Living in a two-speed world: Extreme poverty is declining in most countries but stagnating in economies in fragility or conflict

chart: Two decades of progress in the world’s poorest countries

Chart: Two decades of progress in the world’s poorest countries

Latest Blogs

Maps to the future: How can soil map data be used by smallholder cocoa farmers?

| Sun Hwa Song, Leslie Ricketts, Siddhesh Kaushik

How can we improve the quality of big data for development economics research? Experiences from traditional data collection can help!

| Luiza Andrade, Maria Jones, Sveta Milusheva, Leonardo Viotti

Progress towards gender equality under the law is being made, but legal barriers to women’s full economic participation remain

| Marie Caitriona Hyland

Working hard and not being counted? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa on redefining employment

| Isis Gaddis, Gbemisola Oseni, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Janneke Pieters

Food security in the face of COVID-19: Evidence from Africa

| Sydney Gourlay, Akuffo Amankwah, Alberto Zezza

Using Big Data and machine learning to locate the poor in Nigeria

| Joshua Blumenstock, Jonathan Lain, Isabella Smythe, Tara Vishwanath

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Chart: Fertilizer prices

Fertilizer prices to rise moderately in 2021

Illustration of a satellite view of Planet Earth.

Light Every Night – New nighttime light data set and tools for development

photo of a Woman with a facemask using her computer

The pandemic unfolds on Google (Part 1): A new global dashboard for COVID-19 monitoring

map: Pockets of poverty persists in some of Nigeria's rich areas

Using Big Data and machine learning to locate the poor in Nigeria

Chart: Precious metals prices have fallen recently, but remain higher than end-2019

Precious metal prices expected to be lower in 2021