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CGD in the News
March 30, 2015
A group of American researchers sat down to think of ways that Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique, which have major oil and gas finds, could avoid the rampant corruption, community conflict, violence and poverty commonly called the “resource curse” that has plagued so many resource-r...
REPORTS
July 08, 2014
Despite improvements in censuses and household surveys, the building blocks of national statistical systems in sub-Saharan Africa remain weak. Measurement of fundamental statistics such as births and deaths, growth and poverty, taxes and trade, land and the environment, and sickness, schooling, and ...
Blog Post
July 07, 2014
Since the term “data revolution” was brandished in the High-Level Panel report on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, there has been a flurry of activity to define, develop, and drive an agenda to transform the way development statistics are collected, used, and shared the world over. ...