On March 31st and April 1st, the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Department and Tools and Analytics Unit hosted Measuring Development: Emerging Data and Methods in Global Health…

For over a year now, we have been inundated by information on the pandemic’s health emergency, where the evolution of COVID-19 mortality has been of central interest. We have all witnessed the…

As part of a global effort by the World Bank, the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) program has been supporting High-Frequency Phone Surveys on COVID-19 in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria,…

Two thousand years ago, the story goes, an itinerant carpenter-prophet in Palestine met a woman who had suffered with a bleeding condition for twelve years. She had gone to see this man because…

The COVID-19 pandemic presented a major challenge for household survey programs, as the health risks posed by the virus and associated restrictions disrupted traditional face-to-face survey…

Data are necessary to design and implement development projects. However, traditional data collection is time-consuming and expensive, and usually requires face-to-face access to respondents.…

Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have not been spared from the negative impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Articulating a policy response to the impact of COVID-19 requires understanding how and…

2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to stark relief the importance of equitable education and training. While many countries have made significant progress in improving human capital over…

How do National Statistics Offices (NSOs) adapt in times of rapid change? The conventional methodologies to collect data and to measure economic and social progress by NSOs in a timely and policy-…

The COVID-19-related global recession and economic policy response have triggered a surge in debt levels in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). Coming on top of a surge in global…