Gary,
For a quite skeptical reading of these data bases, see:
McHenry, Dean. "The Numeration of Events: Studying Political Protest in
India,," In Dvora Yanow. and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, eds.,
Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the
Interpretive Turn. M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming, June 2006.
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Gary Klass wrote:
> Thanks, all, for your help on finding this information.
>
> The best analyses I have found (in regard to the World Bank poverty
> measure that I was most interested in)
> are in a series of papers (and the references in these) co-authored by
> Sanjay Reddy:
> http://www.columbia.edu/~sr793/techpapers.html
>
> Reddy's arguments that poverty threshholds should be set higher seem
> beside the point to me:
> poverty is an inherently relative concept...
> But his papers are excellent in describing a) how the data are
> collected, and
> b) what is done to the data after they are collected.
>
>
> Irfan Nooruddin wrote:
>
>> Nothing exactly on that topic comes to mind, but here are two
>> possibilities:
>>
>> (1) Yoshiko Herrera and Devesh Kapur. "Improving Data Quality: Actors,
>> Incentives, and Capabilities."
>> http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eherrera/YHDK050802.pdf
>>
>> (2) Michael L. Ross. "Is Democracy Good for the Poor?"
>> http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/faculty/ross/Does%20Democracy%20Reduce%20IMR%20-%20full%20version.pdf
>>
>>
>> (Tackles the question from the perspective of selection bias induced by
>> differential patterns of missing data for indicators of infant mortality
>> and the like.)
>>
>> Cheers, Irfan
>>
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>> Gary Klass wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking for articles, commentaries or reports on data collection
>>> practices and the reliability of data reported for developing countries
>>> in the United Nations Human Development Reports and\or the World Bank
>>> World Development Indicators.
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