- Emergence of the green employment market
- M. Renner; S. Sweeney; J. Kubit / International Labour Organization, 2008
- Amidst a visible period of transition with trade unions, employers’ organisations, the private sector and the UN allying themselves to low-carbon and sustainable thinking, this paper reports on the emergence of a “green ec...
- Statistical principles for evidence based policy recommendations and the production of human development reports
- J. Puri; A. Gaye; S. Kurukulasuriya / Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2007
- The human development approach represents a simple yet powerful idea: putting people at the centre of development. It is about enlarging people’s choices and freedoms to live a long and healthy life, have access to knowledge and...
- Obtaining socio-economic data for development.
- United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2005
- Detailed demographic and socio-economic data have become indispensable in economic and social policy analysis, development planning, programme management and decision-making at all levels. Consequently, policy-makers and other stakeho...
- Development Data
- Development information and statistics portal
- More than one in three Kenyan adults are illiterate: survey findings
- UNESCO Nairobi Office, 2007
- This report presents the findings of a 2006 baseline survey on the status of literacy in Kenya. The survey used self reporting together with direct assessments of literacy competency skills, and was designed to assist in the developme...
- Data collection and statistical analysis: findings on the capacity of African Education Ministries
- S. Bodo / Association for the Development of Education in Africa, 2007
- This report presents the results of a survey to gauge the capacity levels of Anglophone African Education Ministries’ statistics offices. It presents information provided by statisticians, planners and computer specialists from ...
- Have global refugee numbers been falling?
- United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 2006
- This UNHCR report highlights the state of the world's refugees,asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons, and stateless persons. Highlights from the report include: inclusion of internally displaced persons (I...
- Statistical representation of human development in Malawi
- Measure DHS Deomographic and Health Surveys, 2005
- This report details the key findings of the 2004 demographic and health survey (DHS) for Malawi. The report includes, but is not limited to, topics such as household and respondent characteristics, fertility and family planning, mater...
- Statistics report on the progress of women
- United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2006
- This report presents national sex disaggregated statistics in such areas as demographics, health, education, work, violence against women, poverty, human rights and decision-making. The report reviews and analyses the current a...
- Statistical data relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment and development
- UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, 2005
- The handbook provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment and development, for individual countries and for economic and trade. The publication offers information ...
- Statistical representation of human development in Malawi
- Measure DHS Deomographic and Health Surveys, 2005
- This report details the key findings of the 2004 demographic and health survey (DHS) for Malawi. The report includes, but is not limited to, topics such as household and respondent characteristics, fertility and family planning, mater...
- Statistics report on the progress of women
- United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2006
- This report presents national sex disaggregated statistics in such areas as demographics, health, education, work, violence against women, poverty, human rights and decision-making. The report reviews and analyses the current a...
- Statistical data relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment and development
- UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, 2005
- The handbook provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment and development, for individual countries and for economic and trade. The publication offers information ...
- How can stakeholders’ capacity in soil management be improved?
- H Sseguya; A Lufafa / Faculty of Agriculture, Makerere University, Uganda, 2003
- Degradation of the natural resource base is a major threat in many developing countries and has had a high international profile for more than 30 years. Central to natural resource degradation is degradation of soils. Uganda is no exc...
- Development of the agricultural production system in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
- G. Kurzom / Ma’an Development Center, Gaza and West Bank, 2001
- This research paper seeks to propose informal popular agricultural production as an alternative to the formal Arab agricultural economic plans and policies, in general, and as an alternative to the formal Palestinian and international...
- New method for measuring national ICT penetration
- M. Minges / International Telecommunication Union, 2005
- There are many different indices which rank the world's countries according to their level of ICT penetration or their ‘e-readiness’, but there is no agreement on what indicators to include or what methodology to use. To tac...
- FAO attempts to mainstream gender into its MDG programming and monitoring
- Y. Lambrou / Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2005
- This paper offers some reflections on the monitoring process for the MDGs and highlights FAO relevant activities on gender and rural development. It also offers some recommendations for strengthening the rural component of the MDG pro...
- OECD aid statistics for 2004
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005
- This document presents an overview of the volume of development aid from OECD countries. Official Development Assistance (ODA) to developing countries increased to USD 78.6 billion in 2004, its highest level ever. Taking into a...
- Global education statistics for 2005
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2005
- This report presents a wide range of comparable education indicators. The report is structured as follows: examination of the global situation of participation in secondary education, focusing particularly on lower seco...
- 2004 population statistics from the United Nations
- United Nations Population Division, 2005
- This report presents the highlights from the results of the 2004 revision of the official world population estimates and projections. The full report is due for publication at a later date in 2005. The 2004 revision is the firs...
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- Revista de Educação e Pesquisa em Contabilidade (RePEc)
- Open access journal on education and research in accounting.
- German Council for Social and Economic Data / Rates für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD)
- The German Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD) is an independent body of empirical researchers from universities, colleges, and other independent research institutions as well as representatives of important data producers and service centres. Working papers series deal primarily with the organisation of Germany’s official statistical system, government agency research,...
- The Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon
- Business school in the United States
- Gapminder
- Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. Gapminder is an operating foundation that provides sevices as defined by the board, s...
- Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
- The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases. The LIS Database includes income microdata from a large number of countries at multiple points in time. The newer LWS Database includes wealth microdata from a smaller selection of countries. Both databases include labour market and demographic data as wel...
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