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Africa Infrastructure: Railways
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Listening to Africa and Harmonized Household Survey Project
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Provides data on the cost of sending and receiving relatively small amounts of money from one country to another. Data cover 365 country corridors worldwide, from 48 remittance sending countries to 105 receiving countries.
Sustainable Mobility for All
Procuring Infrastructure PPPs: Adherence to Best Regulatory Practices is a collection of comparable and actionable data on the procurement of large-scale public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects around the world. The assessments of countries’ regulatory practices are organized in four thematic areas: preparation, procurement, contract management, and a special module on unsolicited proposals (USP).
This dataset is classified as Public under the Access to Information Classification Policy. Users inside and outside the Bank can access this dataset. The Human Capital Index (HCI) database provides data at the country level for each of the components of the Human Capital Index as well as for the overall index, disaggregated by gender. The index measures the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18, given the risks to poor health and poor education that prevail in the country where the child lives. It is designed to highlight how improvements in current health and education outcomes shape the productivity of the next generation of workers, assuming that children born today experience over the next 18 years the educational opportunities and health risks that children in this age range currently face.
Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators (WWBI): A dataset on public sector employment and wages that can help researchers and development practitioners gain a better understanding of the personnel dimensions of state capability, the footprint of the public sector on the overall labor market, and the fiscal implications of the government wage bill.
Logistics Performance Index (LPI) - Logistics comprises a network of services that supports the physical movement of goods within and across borders. It is a $4.3 trillion industry. The 2018 Logistics Performance Index (LPI) scores countries on how efficiently they move goods across and within borders. The LPI is an interactive benchmarking tool created to help countries identify the challenges and opportunities they face in their performance on trade logistics and what they can do to improve their performance. The LPI 2018 allows for comparisons across 160 countries.