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January 30, 2023
DUBAI: With economies in crisis, currencies under pressure and inflation sapping purchasing power, it has long been clear that the poor of the Arab region are suffering. But as even the middle classes in some countries begin to feel the pinch as well, more families are struggling just to put food on the table. “It’s like we were hit by an earthquake; suddenly you have to let
January 24, 2023
Universal access to education – the focus of Sustainable Development Goal 4 – is one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. But how much do households and governments spend on education...
September 30, 2022
This seminar will address the updating of the Manual of the National Accounts System, 2025 and the future of economic statistics. Topics of the current situation are raised, of the changing dynamics that have been generated in the measurement processes, the challenges faced to approach the new statistics and sources of information, as well as of the testing and experimentation
August 22, 2022
Recent developments around the world show that statistics and politics don’t blend well together
July 12, 2022
A graphic misleadingly compares Indias economic size to its economic growth rate to convey the economy being in bad shape
June 13, 2022
World Bank’s Recognition to ‘Bangladesh’s Silent Economic Revolution’
June 7, 2022
Informazione equidistante ed imparziale, che offre voce a tutte le fonti di informazione
June 3, 2022
THE effects of climate change on water are manifesting in more frequent, severe floods and droughts.
May 2, 2022
Since the introduction of the dollar-a-day poverty line in the 1990 World Development Report, the World Bank has used purchasing power parities (PPPs) — exchange rates that account for relative price differences across countries — to derive the international poverty line
May 2, 2022
In May 2020, the International Comparison Program (ICP) published new purchasing power parities (PPPs) for the 2017 reference year. PPPs are the principal data used in the measurement of global poverty to convert household income or..