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Land Tenure and Land Use in Southern Togo: Description of a farm household survey
… of 99 rural households carried out in 1990 and presents descriptive statistics of the data collected, along with preliminary tests of association between …
Publication, 01 January 2002
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Assessing the scale and nature of urban poverty in Buenos Aires
… with inadequate incomes that are not highlighted in official poverty statistics and this helps explain some of the inadequacies in policy responses to poverty. The paper includes detailed data on incomes, expenditures and deprivations from interviews with …
Publication, 01 February 2011
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Dairy food chain restructuring in Poland - Causes and impacts.
… of the restructuring of the Polish dairy sector. Using both national statistics and qualitative data collected at the regional level, we present the most important …
Publication, 01 November 2007
Women learning how to install and maintain solar home systems in the rural town of Bogra, northern Bangladesh (Photo: ILO, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Five challenges for Least Developed Countries in the post-2015 era
… and African countries become a higher proportion of the LDCs. 4. Data that works Data and evaluation may be dry subjects for many people, but they are … really make the invisible visible? There are important pitfalls in data collection that are difficult to see, undermining the accuracy of …
Insight, 28 June 2016
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Under-estimation of Urban Poverty in Low and Middle-income Nations, The
… inform poverty reduction policies and practices. This paper assembles data from many empirical studies which suggest that the scale and depth … poverty is systematically under-estimated in most of the official statistics produced or used by governments and international agencies. …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Views from Ilo, Perú
The often forgotten role of small and intermediate urban centres
… inhabitants or, later, 300,000 people, the reason being that the UN data on urbanisation has population statistics for urban centres down to this size. But many nations with …
Insight, 03 February 2021
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Participatory quantification in the water and sanitation sector (PLA Notes 47)
… allows for statistical analysis and comparisons between separate data sets. Using an international sanitation project as an example, this …
Publication, 01 August 2003
Madizini in Tanzania grew from a village into an urban centre, initially because the local sugarcane plantations and factory needed workers. Now the town supports a wide array of businesses (Photo: Jytte Agergaard)
Reframing food security for an urbanising world
… with activities often located in and around urban centres. Census data and projections suggest that Africa and Asia are the regions where … the case. But at the same time, there is little up-to-date detailed data that can support adequate policies. Policymakers often overlook … reduction by providing access to non-farm jobs. However, national statistics class them as rural and their growth is constrained by a lack …
Insight, 10 April 2017
The Multidimensional Poverty Index only has one indicator to assess housing quality – whether floors are made of dirt, sand or dung. So these houses in Manila would not be classified as sub-standard (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
The Multidimensional Poverty Index: Another underestimate of urban poverty
… components to their livelihoods or incomes.  We need better LOCAL data What is so much needed is better local data for rural and urban populations. The examples above show that it … every 10 years but local governments can set up systems that keep key statistics updated between censuses. Policymakers and researchers …
Insight, 18 June 2014
People putting up solar panels
Inclusive finance for universal energy access
… Another promising aspect of aggregators is their potential to gather data on impacts. Zambia’s Beyond the Grid Fund for Zambia (BGFZ) requires companies to share usage statistics in order to qualify for funds; it then aggregates and publishes the data. This helps generate information on sector consumption and …
Article, 13 November 2019