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Conoce los detalles del evento Annual Seminar on National Accounts for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2023: Advances and challenges. Accede a toda la información aquí.

In terms of what the World Bank itself recommends, the country shouldn’t still be using the universal threshold - which yields a much lower (and more

Report says wealth gap would be wider if not for over-priced or ineffective services such as healthcare in US

Measuring how easily people can access safe, sufficient, and nutritious food is crucial to tracking progress towards achieving food security – one of the most pressing development goals of recent times, especially in low- and lower-middle-income countries.

On July 12, 2023, the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2023 (published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and jointly produced with fellow UN agencies) provided the latest estimates of the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet indicators.

Our Reference Diet Deprivation (ReDD) index is based on a comparison of household food consumption as reported in commonly available household consumption and expenditure surveys across a distinct number of food groups against optimal consumption amounts defined by any selected reference diet.

This blog presents revised diet affordability data from Food Prices for Nutrition. These data incorporate updated income distributions and international poverty lines based on 2017 purchasing power parities (PPPs) from the International Comparison Program...

The International Comparison Program (ICP) produces purchasing power parities (PPPs) and comparable price level indexes for each of its 170-plus participating economies, as well as PPP-based volumes and per capita measure of gross domestic product...

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia introduced "OpenDOSM NextGen" to the global statistical communities during the recent 54th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC).

While the rising price of the products required to brew and package beer – such as barley, and aluminium – ...