Enhancing Access to Micro-Data in the Middle East and North Africa
Greater transparency and accountability has been one of the core issues behind the current upheavals in the region. Similarly, lack of or inability to gain access to data has been a long standing complaint by local and international agencies and or...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/05/14288201/enhancing-access-micro-data-middle-east-north-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9451 |
| Summary: | Greater transparency and accountability
has been one of the core issues behind the current upheavals
in the region. Similarly, lack of or inability to gain
access to data has been a long standing complaint by local
and international agencies and organizations. This state of
affairs makes it difficult to design good policies and to
put together indicators to hold governments and others
accountable. This Arab World brief looks at the current
state-of-play in terms of access to data as well as measures
to improve the situation. |
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