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Haishan Fu is Chief Statistician of the World Bank and Director of the World Bank’s Development Data Group. In these capacities, Haishan leads and coordinates the

Today, an estimated 184 million migrants live outside the country of their citizenship. Of this total, refugees number 37 million, including the 7.8 million Ukrainians who have been seeking shelter in the EU since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war.

New working paper investigates if and how fit-for-purpose household surveys can help fill the existing data gaps and help better analyze the nexus of climate change and migration.

WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it is collaborating with the US-based business and employment-oriented online service, LinkedIn to measure key labour i...

Digital Envoy Continues “Data for Impact” Initiative to Help Non-profit and Research-based Organizations Address Global Issues...

With rapid urbanization and increasing climate risks, enhancing the resilience of urban systems has never been more important. Despite the availability of massive datasets of human behavior (e.g., mobile phone data, satellite imagery), studies on disaster resilience have been limited to using static measures as proxies for resilience. However, static metrics have significant drawbacks such as their inability to capture the effects of compounding and accumulating disaster shocks; dynamic interdep...

Building an encompassing statistical system – one that straddles the three pillars of economy, society, and environment – is the key objective for national, and international statistical organizations. Statistics stand at the root of policymaking and execution...

Global Update: Responding to Winter Storms and Tornadoes; $10 Million for Vaccinations; Covid-19 in the Brazilian Amazon, Ethiopian Conflict Emergency and pandemic response continue across the globe. Shipments of medical aid for Texas communities are prepped for departure at Direct Reliefs warehouse on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. (Tony Morain/Direct Relief) In Summary • As Texas confronted winter storms, power outages, and water supply issues, and North Carolina was hit by tornadoes, Direct Relief...