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Indonesia l The challenges of good land governance
27 May 2013 | asia pacific, forestry, indigenous, land rights, land tenure, un-redd, world bankFundamental to the challenges facing the reform of the Indonesian land sector is that it lacks a comprehensive land law. All land in Indonesia falls into one of two categories: (i) forest estate (...
Blogpost | Schooling Isn’t Learning
29 April 2013 | africa, blogpost, education, guinea bissau, literacy, world bankIn 2010, World Bank statistics report that Guinea-Bissau had a youth literacy rate of 72%. That means seven in ten people aged 15-24 were estimated to be able to read and write a simple paragraph...
World Bank Group: Access to Land is Critical for the Poor
10 April 2013 | food crisis, land governance, press release, transparency, world bankWASHINGTON, April 8, 2013 – As the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty convened this week in Washington, DC, The World Bank Group issued the following statement: By 2050, the world will...
Leveraging New Tools to Report Fraud and Corruption: The World Bank Launches its Integrity App | Exploring the interactions among public opinion, governance, and the public sphere
20 November 2012 | citizen reporting, corruption, reporting, tool, world bankThe launch of the Integrity App expands the World Bank’s open data universe, and - perhaps even more excitingly - enables users to engage as 'citizen corruption fighters' to help protect the...
Blogpost l New data resources on poverty, gender, jobs, health and more: a quick guide
07 November 2012 | database, employment, equality, financial, gender equality, health, indicators, nutrition , poverty, statistics, world bankYou’ll find a large amount of data available through the World Bank’s Open Data Initiative: for time-series alone, there are some 8,000 indicators for around 200 countries. And we’re often asked: “...
Blogpost: Opening Up Microdata Access in Africa
01 October 2012 | access-to-data, africa, data, open data, research, world bankRecently I attended the inaugural meeting of the Data for African Development Working Group put together by the Center for Global Development http://www.cgdev.org/ and the African Population &...
Data Gaps Hampering Efforts to Empower Women | Audit Profession News & Events
20 July 2012 | data, education, employment, gender, health, world bankHow many women in African countries use fertilizer to help grow their vegetables? It’s an important question in agriculture-dominant Africa, where many women are farmers—and where the targeting of...
New benchmarking tool helps universities grade themselves | Voices & Views: Middle East & North Africa
09 March 2012 | benchmarking, data collection, education, initiative, scorecard, world bankArab World Higher Education Ministers have endorsed a screening card tool to benchmark university governance across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Developed by a higher education program at...
Report: Global Monitoring Report 2011: Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs (World bank, 2011)
01 July 2011 | governance and mdgs, imf, world bankThe World Bank has released its Global Monitoring Report 2011: Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs and both the World Bank and IMF says that two-thirds of developing countries are on track or...