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“Made in the world”| Measuring Trade in Value Added: An OECD-WTO joint initiative

16 January 2013 Posted in Economy, Global, OECD, Trade, WTO

Global value chains (GVCs) have become a dominant feature of today’s global economy. The proliferation of internationally fragmented production, driven by technological progress, cost, access to resources and markets, and trade policy reforms, challenges our conventional wisdom on how we look at and interpret trade statistics and, in particular, the policies that we develop around… Continue reading “Made in the world”| Measuring Trade in Value Added: An OECD-WTO joint initiative

The World Bank's Open Data Catalog

3 July 2012 Posted in Content, Development, Economy, Research

The World Bank’s Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with access to World Bank data. The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources. http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog Search The World Bank’s Open Data Catalog from here: http://www.weitzenegger.de/content/?page_id=8891

The World Bank’s Open Data Catalog

3 July 2012 Posted in Content, Development, Economy, Research

Systematic Review Database | 3ie Impact Evaluation

7 October 2011 Posted in Evaluation

Systematic Review Database. The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) has just launched the first online database of systematic reviews in international development. Funded by the UK Department for International Development, this database contains systematic reviews focusing on development interventions in low and middle income countries. Systematic reviews examine all the existing evidence on a… Continue reading Systematic Review Database | 3ie Impact Evaluation

Systematic Review Database | 3ie Impact Evaluation

7 October 2011 Posted in Evaluation

ci:grasp

31 May 2011 Posted in ACP, Africa, Climate Change

Home | ci:grasp. ci:grasp aims to support decision-makers and climate change adaptation practitioners in developing countries by providing structured and coherent climate information. Information is presented following an impact chain logic, where climate change stimuli lead to climate impacts, which in turn require adaptation measures. Information is currently available for nine focal countries. The platform… Continue reading ci:grasp

UNICEF – Evaluation database

18 February 2011 Posted in Evaluation

Evaluation and Research Database (ERD) UNICEF is committed to the dissemination of lessons learned. This database contains abstracts and full text reports of evaluations, studies and surveys related to UNICEF programes that are in compliance with UNICEF Evaluation Report Standards. Reports from 2000 onwards are available in this database and can be sorted by country,… Continue reading UNICEF – Evaluation database

New data shows an increase in tax revenues in Africa

24 October 2010 Posted in Africa, Economy

African countries, across all income levels, have gradually increased their level of collected fiscal revenues over the past two decades. However, the crisis is expected to impact negatively on the fiscal revenue performance of African countries in 2009. A complete database of public revenue flows for 50 African governments from 1996 to 2008 is now… Continue reading New data shows an increase in tax revenues in Africa

EIT needs experts for the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs)

30 September 200930 September 2009 Posted in Entrepreneurship, European Union, OECD, Research, Standardisation, Technology

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) launched a call addressed to individuals for the establishment of a database of independent experts to assist the EIT in the process of the evaluation and implementation of Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs). The database will include profiles from the following areas: Sustainable energy, Climate change adoption… Continue reading EIT needs experts for the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs)