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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

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

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)

Helping developing countries during the financial crisis

2 May 2009 Posted in Africa, Asia, Banking, Caribbean, Crisis, Development, Economy, European Union, OECD, Poverty, Publications1 Comment

Developing countries are severely hit by the global economic crisis. The leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies, recognising that the global financial crisis has ‘a disproportionate impact’ on vulnerable people in poor countries, have promised to make hundreds of billions of United States dollars available to these countries as part of a $1.1 trillion… Continue reading Helping developing countries during the financial crisis

How PIA works

14 March 200914 March 2009 Posted in Development, Methods, OECD, Poverty

Poverty Impact Assessment (PIA) helps donors and partner countries identify the intended and unintended consequences of their interventions. PIA provides a framework for improving baseline data and monitoring the impact hypothesis during implementation and inputs for ex post evaluations. It formulates recommendations for decision makers on how the intervention might be improved. Ex ante PIA… Continue reading How PIA works

Financial Crisis Presents Opportunity for Asia, Jeffrey Sachs tells ADB audience

3 February 2009 Posted in Asia, Crisis

The global economic crisis should be viewed by Asia’s policymakers as an opportunity to expand investment in ”desperately” needed public goods, economist Jeffrey Sachs told an ADB audience. In a lecture titled ”Achieving Global Cooperation on Economic Recovery and Long-Term Sustainable Development”, Prof. Sachs said that with the drop in external demand for Asian exports,… Continue reading Financial Crisis Presents Opportunity for Asia, Jeffrey Sachs tells ADB audience