Data News

Integrated national data ecosystems: the next stage of digital transformation

The traditional approach to data management is no longer adequate—data must be shared and used across disciplines, sectors, and platforms.

Declan Deasy, Yaroslav Eferin, Oleg Petrov|
Digital Development, Governance, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships

Quick, friendly, but powerful: The World Bank’s new site for data on poverty and inequality

Today, the World Bank is launching the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), a simple yet comprehensive tool to access our poverty and inequality estimates.

Deon Filmer, Haishan Fu, Carolina Sánchez-Páramo|
Poverty

Three ways to tackle gender data gaps – and 12 countries embracing the challenge

World Bank Strengthening Gender Statistics project is partnering with National Statistical Offices in twelve IDA-19 countries to support the production of gender data in the economic domain.

Anna Tabitha Bonfert, Talip Kilic, Heather Moylan, Miriam Muller|
Gender, Poverty

New global survey shows that some statistical systems are being left behind

In recent years and in multiple fora, governments around the world have recognized that all countries need to have accessible, timely, and reliable disaggregated data to measure progress and…

Haishan Fu, Johannes Jütting, Stefan Schweinfest|

What we’ve been reading about rules and discretion in public procurement

The OECD estimates that in 2020, governments in 27 countries for which data is available, spent an average of 14 percent of their GDP on public procurement of goods and services, out of 28 percent…

Serena Cocciolo, Sushmita Samaddar, Stephen Okiya|
Governance