• Forever young Swaziland country brief
    The demographic transition took up in the late 1970s in Swaziland, brought about by a sustained fall in total fertility rate. As a response to the drop in infant and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 108993 Date: January 1, 2016
  • United Arab Emirates - Program for international student assessment 2015
    Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) benchmarking tool to assess achievement and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 111455 Date: January 1, 2016
  • Reliability of Recall in Agricultural Data
    Farming is an income-generating activity where a range of important actions take place over several months of each season. The ideal data collection effort would thus...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147749 Date: December 31, 2015 Author: Beegle,Kathleen G. ; Carletto,Calogero ; Kastelic,Kristen Himelein
  • Farm-Level Pathways to Improved Nutritional Status
    This special issue of brief fills an important gap in the literature by generating evidence on the contribution of agricultural household production to improvements...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147740 Date: December 31, 2015
  • Croatia - Macro monitoring report : December 2015
    After six years of economic contraction, Croatia started a gradual recovery in 2015. Continued recovery in the EU and events in competing tourism markets boosted Croatia’s...
    Type: Brief Report#: 102689 Date: December 31, 2015
  • Tracking in Panel Household Surveys
    Sample attrition is an inherent challenge faced by longitudinal household surveys. Attrition in household surveys can occur as a result of migration, respondents’ refusal...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147752 Date: December 31, 2015 Author: Witoelar,Firman
  • Yam Consumption and Production in Nigeria
    Yams are starchy tubers grown predominantly in West Africa and have become an increasingly integral component of the Nigerian diet in recent years. Nigeria is the largest...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147756 Date: December 31, 2015
  • Dynamics of Multidimensional Poverty and Wellbeing in Ethiopia
    Poverty can be viewed as taking many different forms, ranging widely over a set of monetary (consumption or income) and non-monetary dimensions (health and education)....
    Type: Brief Report#: 147747 Date: December 31, 2015
  • Gender Dimensions to Livelihoods in Nigeria
    In 2010-2011, the Nigeria National Bureau of Statistics conducted the general household survey panel (GHS-Panel), which collects detailed data on income with a focus...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147748 Date: December 31, 2015
  • Child Anthropometrics and Malnutrition in Malawi
    In 2010-2011, Malawi’s National Statistics Office, in collaboration with the World Bank, conducted the third integrated household survey (IHS3), which collects nationally...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147742 Date: December 31, 2015
  • Child Anthropometrics and Malnutrition - ERSS Wave 1
    In 2011-2012, Ethiopia's Central Statistical Agency, in collaboration with the World Bank, conducted the first wave of the Ethiopia Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS),...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147743 Date: December 31, 2015
  • Upgrading Food Safety at Your Business : A “Win-Win” for Your Clients and Your Bottom Line
    IFC offers a unique product: the Food Safety Toolkit, which aims to help food producers integrate modern food safety management systems into their businesses. Specificity...
    Type: Brief Report#: 192557 Date: December 31, 2015 Author: World Bank
  • Gender and Agricultural Productivity in Malawi
    Agriculture is critically important to both Malawi’s economy and to its social fabric. The majority of farming households practice subsistence agriculture, and their...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147741 Date: December 31, 2015 Author: Kilic,Talip ; Palacios-Lopez,Amparo ; Goldstein,Markus P.
  • Wellbeing in Ethiopia
    In 2011-2012, Ethiopiaʼs Central Statistical Agency (CSA), in collaboration with the World Bank, conducted the first wave of the Ethiopia Rural Socioeconomic Survey...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147755 Date: December 31, 2015
  • Sources of Income for Households in Nigeria
    In 2010, the Nigeria National Bureau of Statistics implemented the general household survey (GHS), which included a panel component focusing on livelihoods, agriculture,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147751 Date: December 31, 2015
  • Asia and the Pacific - Investing in Manufacturing, Agribusiness, and Services
    International Finance Corporation (IFC) provides equity and debt-financing solutions to commercially viable private businesses in manufacturing, agribusiness, forestry,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 193074 Date: December 31, 2015 Author: Pedersen,Henrik E. ; Ramanathan,Ramesh ; Gopalan,Prasad ; Crosby,Ian
  • Measurement, Farm Size and Productivity
    Agricultural economists have long debated the efficiency and viability of smallholder agriculture. While much research has shown that small farmers in developing regions...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147744 Date: December 31, 2015 Author: Carletto,Calogero ; Savastano,Sara ; Zezza,Alberto
  • Measuring Conflict in Micro-Level Surveys
    Violent conflict has significant effects on the welfare, resilience and behavior of individuals, households and communities. These impacts deserve close study at the...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147745 Date: December 31, 2015 Author: Brück,Tilman ; Justino,Patricia ; Verwimp,Philip ; Tedesco,Andrew Anthony
  • Shocks and Coping in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Despite the fact that economic shocks are widely perceived to be important facets of life for many households in sub-Saharan Africa, with important implications for...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147750 Date: December 31, 2015 Author: Heltberg,Rasmus
  • Using Mobile Phones to Collect Panel Data
    In 2009 and 2010, a small research team conducted a study in rural areas of western Tanzania entitled research on expectations in agricultural production (REAP). The...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147746 Date: December 31, 2015 Author: Dillon,Brian
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