Biometrics

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ESSAYS
The Role of Identification in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Mariana Dahan
and
Alan Gelb
July 01, 2015
The post-2015 development agenda is being shaped as we speak. The role of identification and its importance to development outcomes places it within the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda — specifically as one of the proposed SDG targets (#16.9), but also as a key enabler of the ef...
POLICY PAPERS
Indonesia’s Missing Millions: Erasing Discrimination in Birth Certification in Indonesia
Cate Sumner
June 16, 2015
Indonesia’s rate of birth registration is imprecisely measured but is low, especially among the poorer, rural, population. At the same time, the country has developed a system of population registration with wide, if not universal, coverage. In addition, under current regulations that link leg...
Blog Post
The Future of Legal Identity?
Alan Gelb
and
Mariana Dahan
May 07, 2015
What is “legal identity” and what might its future hold? This was the question discussed at the Future of Legal Identity Colloquium in The Hague, Netherlands last week.
Blog Post
Labor Pains: Birth and Civil Registration in Indonesia
Alan Gelb
March 23, 2015
Blog Post
From Blastoff to Orbit: The Next Stage for Aadhaar
Alan Gelb
and
Anit Mukherjee
March 19, 2015
Blog Post
Ghostbusters: Linking Subsidy Reform and Biometric Identification in India
Alan Gelb
and
Anna Diofasi
March 17, 2015
India has embarked on a program using biometric identification to enable a shift from blanket price-based energy subsidies to targeted compensation payments based on actual, individual energy purchases. 
Blog Post
Means versus Ends: Deconstructing the SDGs and the Role of Identification
Alan Gelb
and
Mariana Dahan
January 29, 2015
The post-2015 development agenda is being shaped as we speak. The United Nations has recently released a report that synthesizes the full range of inputs received from various stakeholders. These inputs, including ones from the World Bank Group, are a substantive contribution to the intergovernmenta...