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Recent Developments
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Development Data Group Data Scientist receives award for predicting human mobilityNovember 2023
Aivin Solatorio, Data Scientist with the Development Data Group, has won second place at the ACM HuMob Challenge at MIT Connection Science with his paper "GeoFormer: Predicting Human Mobility using Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT)."
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Spanish edition of the Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023November 2023
We have published the Spanish edition of the Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023, a visual resource presenting interactive storytelling and data visualizations about progress towards the 17 SDGs.
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Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals wins top prize at Information is Beautiful Awards 2023November 2023
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023 has won both the top “Most Beautiful” award and the “Humanitarian” category’s gold medal at the prestigious 2023 Information is Beautiful Awards, organized by the Data Visualization Society.
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Arabic edition of the Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023October 2023
We have released the Arabic edition of the Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023, a visual resource presenting interactive storytelling and data visualizations about progress towards the 17 SDGs.
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Data diagnostic for the Indian state of KeralaSeptember 2023
A new report on data governance in the Indian state of Kerala aims to support the state government in combining data initiatives related to climate change and disaster risk management into an integrated ecosystem of technology products and processes.
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Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals shortlisted in the Information is Beautiful Awards 2023September 2023
We are humbled that the Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023 has been shortlisted in the Information is Beautiful Awards 2023.
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Haishan Fu's opening address at the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide 2023 Virtual ConferenceSeptember 2023
Haishan Fu, Chief Statistician of the World Bank and Director of the World Bank’s Development Data Group, delivered the opening address for the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide 2023 Virtual Conference.
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The Development Data Group's data and analysis supported a USA Today article on tobacco use in ChinaThe Development Data Group's data and analysis supported a USA Today article on tobacco use in ChinaSeptember 2023
Development Data Group experts – Umar Serajuddin (Manager), Emi Suzuki (Demographer), and Haruna Kashiwase (Consultant) – contributed data on tobacco use and population, as well as analysis to a recent article on China’s smoking epidemic, produced by The Examination and re-published in USA Today.
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The Development Data Group's research on education referenced in The TelegraphAugust 2023
In a recent article on Vietnam's education system, The Telegraph has quoted Development Data Group Senior Economist, Hai-Anh H. Dang, and cited our research and data.
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New collaboration to use mobile phone data for development policyJuly 2023
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Development Data Group have joined forces to put Mobile Phone Data (MPD) to work for policy through the World Bank-hosted Global Data Facility.
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Preliminary Findings from the G-7 and Paris Club Countries Debt Data Sharing ExerciseApril 2023
A new report sets out the rationale and preliminary findings of the data sharing exercise between G-7 and the World Bank, which has been extended to all Paris Club creditors on a voluntary basis.
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Presentation at NASAApril 2023
Development Data Group Senior Geographer Brian Blankespoor and other World Bank experts (above) have recently given a presentation at NASA to highlight how we use satellite data—including from the agency’s own satellite—to track greenhouse gas emissions.
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Supporting digital transformation in TunisiaMarch 2023
The Development Data Group, in close cooperation with the Bank's Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions (EFI) Global Practice, recently co-organized an OpenGovData Hackathon with the Electronic Administration Unit of the Government’s Presidency in Tunisia to explore how open data can improve transparency and innovation.
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The Development Data Group's poverty work was referenced in The New York TimesDecember 2022
In an opinion piece, The New York Times cited our research on poverty:
"Indeed, World Bank researchers estimate that the number of people living in extreme poverty actually declined a hair in 2022, though the figure remains higher than on the eve of the pandemic. The number is about the same as it was in 2018 — and much better than in 2017 and previous years."
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The Development Data Group's poverty work was referenced in The New York TimesDecember 2022
In a prominent article, The New York Times cited our research on poverty:
"Defaulting on a huge swath of loans would send borrowing costs for vulnerable nations even higher and could spawn financial crises when nearly 100 million people have already been pushed into poverty this year by the combined effects of the pandemic, inflation and Russia’s war in Ukraine."
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