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IDEAS has recently released its book on "Transformational Evaluation for the Global Crises of Our Times”. The launch event will be held on Thursday 29 July, 2021, at 10:00 EDT | 14:00 UTC | 16:00 CEST. Please register here. The book is published as open access and available for download on the IDEAS...

Remarks from Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director "The coronavirus pandemic has triggered an unprecedented socioeconomic crisis, which threatens to roll back years of progress in reducing child poverty, leaving children deprived of essential services and families struggling financially. Without...

This note builds on previous collaboration between the World Bank Group and UNICEF to estimate the global extent of child poverty. We estimate that in 2017, 17.5 percent of children in the world (or 356 million) younger than 18 years lived on less than 1.90 Dollars PPP per day, as opposed to 7.9...

The Rapid Evidence Assessment prepared by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and supported by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)...

Joint report by The Bank of Canada, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Sveriges Riksbank, Swiss National Bank, Bank of England, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and Bank for International Settlements. Central banks have been providing trusted money to the public for hundreds of years as...

This Global Gender Gap Report is meant to be a holistic review of gender-based gaps throughout 153 countries, with key findings including gender parity and educational attainment divides. Key Findings Since 2006 the Global Gender Gap Index has been measuring the extent of gender-based gaps among...

Abstract This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world. In the absence of individual-level poverty data, the paper looks at what can we learn in terms of gender differences by looking at the available individual and household...

Insight on Poverty and Children based on World Bank data. https://ourworldindata.org/children-and-poverty-results-from-new-data How many of the world’s children live in extreme poverty? A recent study by the World Bank tries to answer this question. This is a new and insightful exercise, since World...