Economic impact of a second lockdown in Uganda: results from the seventh round of the High-Frequency Phone Survey

The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) continues to monitor the impact of COVID-19 on the socio-economic wellbeing of the national population through the Uganda High-Frequency Phone Survey (UHFPS…

Aziz Atamanov, Frédéric Cochinard, John Ilukor, Talip Kilic, Giulia Ponzini |

A year into the COVID-19 pandemic: what rounds 4 and 5 of Uganda High-Frequency Phone Survey tell

The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) continues to monitor the impact of COVID-19 on the national population through Uganda High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 (UHFPS). The survey recontacts…

Aziz Atamanov, Frédéric Cochinard, John Ilukor, Giulia Ponzini |

Uganda High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19: Results from round 2

The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), in collaboration with the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) program and the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, disseminated the …

Aziz Atamanov, John Ilukor, Talip Kilic, Giulia Ponzini |
Education, Health, Jobs & Development

Uganda High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19: Results from round 1

The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), in collaboration with the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) program and the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, disseminated the…

Aziz Atamanov, Talip Kilic |
Education, Health, Jobs & Development

Open defecation nearly halved since 2000 but is still practiced by 670 million

Open defecation is the practice of people defecating outside, such as in street gutters, behind bushes or into open bodies of water. Between 2000 and 2017, the world nearly...

Haruna Kashiwase |
Health

Harmonized learning outcomes: transforming learning assessment data into national education policy reforms

Harry A. Patrinos, Noam Angrist |
Education

It Takes a Village: Taking Open Data to an Offline Community in Indonesia

This is the first of a two-part blog series on offline open data pilots recently conducted in Indonesia and Kenya. Part one focuses on Indonesia, while the subsequent blog post will describe our…

Samuel Lee, Felipe Estefan |
Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector