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Progress on Children’s Well-Being: Centring child rights in the 2030 agenda – For every child, a sustainable future

Where are we on Education Recovery? Taking the Global Pulse of a RAPID Response

The State of the Global Education Crisis: A Path to Recovery

COVID-19 Learning Losses: Rebuilding Quality Learning for All in the Middle East and North Africa

Remote Learning During COVID-19: Lessons from Today, Principles for Tomorrow

Learning Data Compact Concept Note

What’s Next? Lessons on Education Recovery: Findings from a Survey of Ministries of Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

What Have We Learnt? Overview of Findings from a Survey of Ministries of Education on National Responses to COVID-19

Ending Learning Poverty: What Will It Take?

Hard truths about under-5 mortality: call for urgent global action

Global health estimates should be more responsive to country needs

Simulating the potential impacts of COVID-19 school closures on schooling and learning outcomes: A set of global estimates

Measuring Early Childhood Development Among 4-6 Year Olds: The Identification of Psychometrically Robust Items Across Diverse Contexts

A New Profile of the Global Poor

Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia

From Noise to Signal: The Successful Turnaround of Poverty Measurement in Colombia

When Job Earnings Are Behind Poverty Reduction

NAFTA and the Loss of US Market Share by Brazil, 1992-2001

The Unequal Impacts of COVID-19 on Student Learning

Inequality, Mobility and Middle Classes in Latin America

Uma decomposição da desigualdade de rendimentos do trabalho no Brasil: 1984-2005

Avaliando a significância estatística da queda na desigualdade

Um Mapa de Avaliação: O Caso do Programa Brasil Alfabetizado

Uma Avaliação da Demanda por Alfabetização no Brasil: Uma análise com dados secundários

Avaliação de Processo: A Gestão do Programa Brasil Alfabetizado

Microfinance and Poor Entrepreneurs

An Investigation of the Labour Market Earnings in Deprived Areas: Evaluating the Sources of Wage Differentials in the Slums

Políticas Públicas de apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas no Reino Unido: Uma avaliação das experiências nos anos 90

Microfinanças para Arranjos e Sistemas de MPME

Caja Los Andes (Bolivia) Diversifies into Rural Lending

Determining the Outreach of Senegalese MFIs

Understanding Changes in Poverty

Teenage Pregnancy and Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean: On Teenage Fertility Decisions, Poverty and Economic Achievement

Brasil alfabetizado: como entrevistamos em 2006

Brasil alfabetizado: marco referencial para avaliação cognitive

Brasil alfabetizado: experiência de campo de 2004

Brasil alfabetizado: caminhos da avaliação

Blackout or Blanked Out?: Monitoring the Quality of Electricity Service in Developing Countries

COVID-19 School Closures, Learning Losses and Intergenerational Mobility

Learning Losses during COVID-19: Global Estimates of an Invisible and Unequal Crisis

Western and Central Africa Education Strategy: Targets in the West and Central Africa Education Strategy - Background Note on Methodology

Learning Poverty Updates and Revisions

Will Every Child Be Able to Read by 2030? Defining Learning Poverty and Mapping the Dimensions of the Challenge

Learning Poverty: Measures and Simulations

Learning Poverty in the Time of COVID-19: A Crisis Within a Crisis

Poverty, Inequality, and Agriculture in the EU

Consumer Price Indices Used in Global Poverty Measurement

sae: A Stata Package for Unit Level Small Area Estimation

April 2018 PovcalNet Update: What’s New

Small Area Estimation/Poverty Map in Stata

Robustness of Shared Prosperity Estimates: How Different Methodological Choices Matter

How Equitable Is Access to Finance in Turkey? Evidence from the Latest Global FINDEX

When and Where Do We See Regional Poverty Reduction and Convergence? Lessons from the Roof of Turkey

What Are the Impacts of Syrian Refugees on Host Community Welfare in Turkey? A Subnational Poverty Analysis

Kyrgyz Republic - Social Sectors at a Glance

Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia

Poverty Reduction and Shared Prosperity in Tajikistan: A Diagnostic

Pathways to the Middle Class in Turkey: How Have Reducing Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity Helped?

Fiscal Adjustment and Income Inequality: Sub-national Evidence from Brazil

Setting Reasonable Performance Targets for Public Service Delivery

Is Labor Income Responsible for Poverty Reduction? A Decomposition Approach

Decomposing the Recent Inequality Decline in Latin America

The Effect of Women’s Economic Power in Latin America and the Caribbean

Is the Baby to Blame? An Inquiry into the Consequences of Early Childbearing

Fifteen Years of Inequality in Latin America: How Have Labor Markets Helped?

Is the Middle Class Too Posh-to-Push? The C-section Epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean

Business Cycles and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from the First Great Recession of the XXI Century

On the Edge of Uncertainty: Poverty Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean During the Great Recession and Beyond

A Break with History: Fifteen Years of Inequality Reduction in Latin America

Oportunidades para los Niños Colombianos: Cuánto Avanzamos en Esta Década

Did Latin America Learn to Shield its Poor from Economic Shocks?

The Real Bottom Line: Benchmarking Performance in Poverty Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean

Avaliação Econômica do Programa Fica Vivo: O Caso Piloto

Prevenção e Controle de Homicídios: Uma Avaliação de Impacto no Brasil

Avaliação do Programa Fica Vivo no Município de Belo Horizonte

Avaliação 2007 do Canal Futura: Analisando a Demanda e a Disposição a Pagar

Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation of Literacy in Brazil

Eficiência Técnica e Alocativa das Inspetorias de Fiscalização do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Efetividade do Novo Sistema de Emissão da Inscrição Estadual: Uma Avaliação Quantitativa

O Ambiente de Negócios do Estado do Rio de Janeiro: Um Mapa Sobre o Tempo de Abertura de Firmas nos Municípios do Estado

Uma Avaliação Ex Ante de Algumas Políticas para Melhoria do Ambiente de Negócios no Estado do Rio de Janeiro

O Tempo de Abertura de Negócios: Uma Breve Revisão Crítica da Literatura Existente para o Estado do Rio de Janeiro

RIOLOG: Uma Avaliação Ex-Post

Features of the Automobile Sector Labor Market in Brazil

Receita Declarada e Informada: Análise de uma Amostra de Estabelecimentos do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

The Econometric Evaluation of the New Deal for Lone Parents

Lone Parents Work Focused Interviews/New Deal for Lone Parents: Combined Evaluation and Further Net Impacts

Telefonia Móvel e Pobreza no Brasil

Coaching do Processo de Avaliação do Canal Futura

Avaliação de Treinamentos Profissionais

Preliminary Analysis and Impact Evaluation Strategies for the Avaliação de Impacto do Programa Bolsa Família (AIBF)

GROUPFUNCTION: Stata module to replace several basic collapse functions

SAE: Stata module to provide commands and mata functions devoted to unit level small area estimation

FHSAE: Stata module to fit an area level Fay-Herriot model

ADECOMP: Stata module to estimate Shapley Decomposition by Components of a Welfare Measure

DRDECOMP: Stata module to estimate Shapley value of growth and distribution components of changes in poverty indicators

MPOVLINE: Stata module to calculate FGT0, FGT1 and FGT2 by intervals of multiple thresholds

SKDECOMP: Stata module to estimate Shapley value of growth, price, and distribution components on changes in poverty indicators

WBOPENDATA: Stata module to access World Bank databases

TURNBULL: Stata module to estimate the Turnbull empirical distribution estimator of willingness to pay

HOI: Stata module to compute Human Opportunity Index

SPIKE: Stata module to allow for a zero willingness to pay

MOL: Stata module to evaluate literacy level

AINEQUAL: Stata module to compute measures of inequality

APOVERTY: Stata module to compute poverty measures

ALORENZ: Stata module to produce Pen’s Parade, Lorenz and Generalised Lorenz curve

ISOPOVERTY: Stata module to generate data for Inequality-Poverty and Iso-Poverty curves

CHANGEMEAN: Stata module to compute Income and Inequality Contribution on Poverty Variation

DFL: Stata module to estimate DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux Counterfactual Kernel Density

GRQREG: Stata module to graph the coefficients of a quantile regression

CRTEST: Stata module to perform Cramer-Ridder Test for pooling states in a Multinomial logit

FACTORTEST: Stata module to perform tests for appropriateness of factor analysis

OUTTABLE: Stata module to write matrix to LaTeX table

DATALIB: Microdata extraction tool

DATALIBWEB: Microdata extraction tool

PRIMUS: Suite of commands for submission and approval of the World Bank Global Poverty Monitoring

LearningPoverty

GLAD

jpazvd (personal GitHub)

UNICEF report puts children at the heart of sustainable development

Why hasn’t the pandemic sparked more concern for learning losses in Latin America? The perils of an invisible crisis

School closures and longer-term implications of COVID-19 for inter-generational mobility

The global education crisis – even more severe than previously estimated

Five lessons from remote learning during COVID-19

Will every child be able to read by 2030?

How the SDG 4.1.1 Framework and Learning Poverty Can Help Countries Focus Their Education Policy Response to COVID-19

Building Back Better After COVID-19: The Importance of Tracking Learning Inequality

Multiple exposures to learning assessments: A photo mosaic from Brazil

How could COVID-19 hinder progress with Learning Poverty? Some initial simulations

Learning for All: Within-country learning inequality

Learning for All: Beyond an Average Score

Learning losses due to COVID-19 could add up to $10 trillion

We should avoid flattening the curve in education – Possible scenarios for learning loss during the school lockdowns

New release of WBOPENDATA Stata module

Going municipal: Targeting deprivation with new evidence in Croatia

April 2018 global poverty update from the World Bank

Feeding the craving for precision on global poverty

How equitable is access to finance in Turkey? Evidence from the latest Global FINDEX

How persistent is poverty in the short run?

Is Poverty Seasonal?

Inequality at the very very very top: What does the Forbes Billionaires database tell us?

WBOPENDATA Stata Module Upgrade

New Stata module released

Latin American women driving region’s prosperity

From Evidence to Action: Strengthening Africa’s Learning Data Ecosystems

8 minute read

Published: October 31, 2025

Reflections from the ADEA Triennale 2025 in Accra on building fit-for-purpose, comparable learning assessments across Africa.

When the Future Arrives Faster Than Expected: Reflections on AI and Education at CIES 2025

3 minute read

Published: March 23, 2025

Initial reflections on AI and Education from the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 2025 conference in Chicago.

🚀 Strengthening Child and Adolescent Statistics in Africa

#UN56SC

4 minute read

Published: March 08, 2025

Launch of the Africa Expert Group on Child and Adolescent Statistics at the UN 56th Statistical Commission side event.

A Year of Insights, A Future of Action: UNICEF Data and Analytics 2024

3 minute read

Published: January 03, 2025

Highlights from UNICEF Data and Analytics Team publications in 2024, covering child mortality, FGM, immunization, and more.

Data that Matters: Achieving Both Precision and Public Trust in Statistics

3 minute read

Published: October 31, 2024

How Colombia transformed its poverty measurement through the MESEP process, rebuilding public trust in statistics.

Analyzing Intergenerational Mobility in Brazil: Education and Poverty Trends

7 minute read

Published: August 27, 2024

Analysis of Brazil’s progress in education and poverty reduction across generations using age-period-cohort data.

Learning Poverty and COVID-19 School Closures: Initial Simulations

3 minute read

Published: October 22, 2020

Simulation scenarios showing potential impacts of COVID-19 school closures on learning poverty in low- and middle-income countries.