Abstract

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in DJIBOUTI or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank's team that works in DJIBOUTI, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in DJIBOUTI. The World Bank commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in DJIBOUTI.

The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: - Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Djibouti perceive the Bank; - Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Djibouti regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Djibouti; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank in Djibouti; · Overall impressions of the World Bank's effectiveness and results, knowledge and research, and communication and information sharing in Djibouti; and · Perceptions of the World Bank's future role in Djibouti. - Use data to help inform the Djibouti country team's strategy.

Every country that engages in the Country Survey must include specific indicator questions that will be aggregated for the World Bank's annual Corporate Scorecard.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

Stakeholder

Universe

Stakeholders of the World Bank in Djibouti

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

In June-July 2012, 220 stakeholders of the World Bank in Djibouti were invited to provide their opinions on the World Bank's assistance to the country by participating in a country survey. Participants in the survey were drawn from among the office of the President and the office of the Prime Minister; the office of a Minister; the office of a Parliamentarian; employees of a ministry, ministerial department, or implementation agency; consultants/contractors working on World Bank-supported projects/programs; project management units (PMUs) overseeing implementation of a project; local government officials or staff; bilateral agencies; multilateral agencies; private sector organizations; private foundations; the financial sector/private banks; NGOs; community-based organizations (CBOs); the media; independent government institutions; trade unions; faith-based groups; academia/research institutes/think tanks; and the judiciary branch.

Mode of data collection

Mail Questionnaire [mail]

Research instrument

The Questionnaire consists of 8 Sections:

A. General Issues facing Djibouti: Respondents were asked to indicate whether Djibouti is headed in the right direction, what they thought were the top three most important development priorities, and which areas would contribute most to reducing poverty and generating economic growth in Djibouti.

B. Overall Attitudes toward the World Bank: Respondents were asked to rate their familiarity with the World Bank, the Bank's effectiveness in Djibouti, Bank staff preparedness, the extent to which the Bank should seek to influence the global development agenda, their agreement with various statements regarding the Bank's work, and the extent to which the Bank is an effective development partner. Respondents were also asked to indicate the sectoral areas on which it would be most productive for the Bank to focus its resources, the Bank's greatest values and greatest weaknesses in its work, the most and least effective instruments in helping to reduce poverty in Djibouti, with which groups the Bank should work more, and to what reasons respondents attributed failed or slow reform efforts.

C. World Bank Effectiveness and Results: Respondents were asked to rate the extent to which the Bank's work helps achieve development results in Djibouti, the extent to which the Bank meets Djibouti's need for knowledge services and financial instruments, and the Bank's level of effectiveness across twenty-seven development areas, such as economic growth, governance, public financial management, food security, health, energy, and others.

D. The World Bank's Knowledge: Respondents were asked to indicate how frequently they consult Bank knowledge/research, the areas on which the Bank should focus its research efforts, and to rate the effectiveness and quality of the Bank's knowledge/research, including how significant of a contribution it makes to development results, its technical quality, and the Bank's effectiveness at providing linkage to non-Bank expertise.

E. Working with the World Bank: Respondents were asked to rate their level of agreement with a series of statements regarding working with the Bank, such as the World Bank's "Safeguard Policy" requirements being reasonable, the Bank imposing reasonable conditions on its lending, disbursing funds promptly, increasing Djibouti's institutional capacity, and providing effective implementation support.

F. The Future Role of the World Bank in Djibouti: Respondents were asked to rate how significant a role the Bank should play in Djibouti's development in the near future and to indicate what the Bank should do to make itself of greater value in Djibouti.

G. Communication and Information Sharing: Respondents were asked to indicate how they get information about economic and social development issues, how they prefer to receive information from the Bank, their access to the Internet, and their usage and evaluation of the Bank's website. Respondents were asked about their awareness of the Bank's Access to Information policy, past information requests from the Bank, and their level of agreement that they use more data from the World Bank as a result of the Bank's Open Data policy. Respondents were also asked their level of agreement that they know how to find information from the Bank and that the Bank is responsive to information requests.

H. Background Information: Respondents were asked to indicate their current position, specialization, whether they professionally collaborate with the World Bank, their exposure to the Bank in Djibouti, and their geographic location.

Response rate

A total of 118 stakeholders participated in the country survey (54%).

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Georgia or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank's team that works in Georgia, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Georgia. The World Bank commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in Georgia. The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Georgia perceive the Bank; Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Georgia regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Georgia; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank in Georgia; · Overall impressions of the World Bank's effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Georgia; and · Perceptions of the World Bank's future role in Georgia. Use data to help inform Georgia country team's strategy.

The World Development Indicators from the World Bank contain over a thousand annual indicators of economic development from hundreds of countries around the world.

Here's a list of the available indicators along with a list of the available countries.

For example, this data includes the life expectancy at birth from many countries around the world:

The dataset hosted here is a slightly transformed verion of the raw files available here to facilitate analytics.

Abstract

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Ethiopia or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the Bank's team that works in Ethiopia, more in-depth insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Ethiopia. The World Bank commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in Ethiopia.

The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: - Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Ethiopia perceive the Bank; - Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Ethiopia regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Ethiopia; · Their perceived overall value of the World Bank in Ethiopia; · Overall impressions of the World Bank as related to programs, poverty reduction, personal relationships, effectiveness, knowledge base, collaboration, and its day-to-day operation; and · Perceptions of the World Bank's communication and outreach in Ethiopia. - Use data to help inform the Ethiopia country team's strategy.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

Stakeholder

Universe

Stakeholders of the World Bank in Ethiopia

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

In December 2011, 620 stakeholders of the World Bank in Ethiopia were invited to provide their opinions on the Bank's assistance to the country by participating in a country survey. Participants in the survey were drawn from among the office of the President or Prime Minister; the office of a Minister; the office of a Parliamentarian; employees of a ministry, ministerial department, or implementation agency; consultants/contractors working on World Bank supported projects/programs; project management units (PMUs); local government officials or staff; bilateral or multilateral agencies; private sector organizations; NGOs (including CBOs); the media; independent government institutions; trade unions; academia, research institutes or think tanks; and the judiciary.

Mode of data collection

Mail Questionnaire [mail]

Research instrument

The Questionnaire consists of 8 Sections:

1. Background Information: The first section asked respondents for their current position; specialization; familiarity, exposure to, and involvement with the Bank; geographic location; and age.

2. General Issues facing Ethiopia: Respondents were asked to indicate what they thought were the most important development priorities, which areas would contribute most to poverty reduction and economic growth in Ethiopia, whether Ethiopia is headed in the right direction, and whether the economy and standard living has improved in the past five years, as well as rating the extent to which Ethiopia was headed in the right direction in terms of specific development areas.

3. Overall Attitudes toward the World Bank: Respondents were asked to rate the extent to which the Bank meets Ethiopia's need for knowledge services, the extent to which the Bank encourages the government to see through reforms, and their agreement with various statements regarding the Bank's programs, poverty mission, relationships, and collaborations in Ethiopia. Respondents were also asked to indicate the areas on which it would be most productive for the Bank to focus its resources and research, what the Bank's level of involvement should be, what they felt were the Bank's greatest values and greatest weaknesses in its work, and with which groups the Bank should work more.

4. The Work of the World Bank: Respondents were asked to rate their level of importance and the Bank's level of effectiveness across twenty-two areas in which the Bank was involved, such as helping to reduce poverty and encouraging greater transparency in governance.

5. The Way the World Bank does Business: Respondents were asked to rate the Bank's level of effectiveness in the way it does business, including the Bank's knowledge, personal relationships, collaborations, and poverty mission.

6. Project/Program Related Issues: Respondents were asked to rate their level of agreement with a series of statements regarding the Bank's programs, day-to-day operations, and collaborations in Ethiopia.

7. The Future of the World Bank in Ethiopia: Respondents were asked to rate how significant a role the Bank should play in Ethiopia's development and to indicate what the Bank could to make itself of greater value and to what reasons respondents attributed failed or slow reform efforts.

8. Communication and Outreach: Respondents were asked to indicate where they get information about development issues and the Bank's development activities in Ethiopia, as well as how they prefer to receive information from the Bank. Respondents were also asked to indicate their usage of the Bank's website, PICs, and Development Information Corners, and to evaluate these communication and outreach efforts.

Response rate

A total of 326 stakeholders participated in the country survey (53%).

Context

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects. The World Bank's stated goal is the reduction of poverty. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank

Content

This dataset combines key education statistics from a variety of sources to provide a look at global literacy, spending, and access.

For more information, see the World Bank website.

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Acknowledgements

https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/bigquery-public-data:world_bank_health_population

http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/ed-stats

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/world-bank-education

Citation: The World Bank: Education Statistics

Dataset Source: World Bank. This dataset is publicly available for anyone to use under the following terms provided by the Dataset Source - http://www.data.gov/privacy-policy#data_policy - and is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, express or implied, from Google. Google disclaims all liability for any damages, direct or indirect, resulting from the use of the dataset.

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Inspiration

Of total government spending, what percentage is spent on education?

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Romania or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank's team that works in Romania, more in-depth insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Romania. The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Romania perceive the Bank; Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Romania regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Romania; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank in Romania; · Overall impressions of the World Bank's effectiveness and results, knowledge and research, and communication and information sharing in Romania; and · Perceptions of the World Bank's future role in Romania. Use data to help inform the Romania country team's strategy.

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Jamaica or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank's team that works in Jamaica, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Jamaica. The World Bank commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in Jamaica. This survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Jamaica perceive the Bank; Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Jamaica regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Jamaica; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank in Jamaica; · Overall impressions of the World Bank's effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Jamaica; and · Perceptions of the World Bank's future role in Jamaica. Use data to help inform Jamaica country team's strategy.

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Guinea or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank's team that works in Guinea, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Guinea. The World Bank commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in Guinea. The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Guinea perceive the Bank; Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Guinea regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Guinea; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank in Guinea; · Overall impressions of the World Bank's effectiveness and results, knowledge and research, and communication and information sharing in Guinea; and · Perceptions of the World Bank's future role in Guinea. Use data to help inform the Guinea country team's strategy.

Abstract

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Romania or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank's team that works in Romania, more in-depth insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Romania.

The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: - Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Romania perceive the Bank; - Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Romania regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Romania; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank in Romania; · Overall impressions of the World Bank's effectiveness and results, knowledge and research, and communication and information sharing in Romania; and · Perceptions of the World Bank's future role in Romania. - Use data to help inform the Romania country team's strategy.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

Stakeholder

Universe

Stakeholders of the World Bank in Romania

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

In August-September 2013, 191 stakeholders of the World Bank in Romania were invited to provide their opinions on the Bank's assistance to the country by participating in a country survey. Participants in the survey were drawn from among the office of the President/Prime Minister/Minister, the office of a Parliamentarian; a ministry, ministerial department, or implementation agency; consultants/ contractors working on World Bank-supported projects/programs; project management units (PMUs) overseeing implementation of a project; local government officials or staff; bilateral and multilateral agencies; private sector organizations; private foundations; the financial sector/private banks; NGOs; community-based organizations; the media; independent government institutions; trade unions; faith-based groups; academia/research institutes/think tanks; the judiciary branch; and other organizations.

Mode of data collection

Mail Questionnaire [mail]

Research instrument

The Questionnaire consists of 8 Sections:

A. General Issues Facing Romania: Respondents were asked to indicate whether Romania is headed in the right direction, what they thought were the top three development priorities in Romania, which areas would contribute most to reducing poverty and generating economic growth, and what best illustrates how "shared prosperity" would be achieved in Romania.

B. Overall Attitudes toward the World Bank: Respondents were asked to rate their familiarity with the World Bank, the Bank's effectiveness in Romania, Bank staff preparedness to help Romania solve its development challenges, their agreement with various statements regarding the Bank's work, and the extent to which the Bank is an effective development partner. Respondents were asked to indicate the Bank's greatest values, greatest weaknesses, the most effective instruments in helping reduce poverty in Romania, with which stakeholder groups the Bank should collaborate more, in which sectoral areas the Bank should focus most resources, to what extent the Bank should seek to influence the global development agenda, and to what reasons respondents attributed failed or slow reform efforts.

C. World Bank Effectiveness and Results: Respondents were asked to rate the extent to which the Bank's work helps achieve development results, the extent to which the Bank meets Romania's needs for knowledge services and financial instruments, and the Bank's level of effectiveness across thirty eight development areas, such as public sector governance/reform, regulatory framework, education, gender, and social inclusion of marginalized and vulnerable groups.

D. The World Bank's Knowledge: Respondents were asked to indicate how frequently they consult Bank knowledge work and activities, the areas on which the Bank should focus its research efforts and to rate the effectiveness and quality of the Bank's knowledge work and activities, including how significant of a contribution it makes to development results, its technical quality, and the value of the World Bank's fee-based services/products.

E. Working with the World Bank: Respondents were asked to rate their level of agreement with a series of statements regarding working with the Bank, such as the World Bank's "Safeguard Policy" requirements being reasonable, the Bank imposing reasonable conditions on its lending, disbursing funds promptly, increasing Romania's institutional capacity, and providing effective implementation support.

F. The Future Role of the World Bank in Romania: Respondents were asked to rate how significant a role the Bank should play in Romania in the near future and to indicate what the Bank should do to make itself of greater value.

G. Communication and Information Sharing: Respondents were asked to indicate how they get information about economic and social development issues, how they prefer to receive information from the Bank, and their usage and evaluation of the Bank's websites. Respondents were asked about their awareness of the Bank's Access to Information policy, past information requests from the Bank, and their level of agreement that they use more data from the World Bank as a result of the Bank's Open Data policy. Respondents were also asked about their level of agreement that they know how to find information from the Bank, that the Bank's websites are easy to navigate and useful, and that the Bank is responsive to information requests. Respondents were also asked to indicate whether they primarily use the Bank's country website or the Bank's main website and whether they primarily use high speed or dial-up Internet connection when visiting a World Bank website.

H. Background Information: Respondents were asked to indicate their current position, specialization, whether they professionally collaborate with the World Bank, their exposure to the Bank in Romania, and their geographic location.

Response rate

A total of 81 stakeholders participated in the survey (42% response rate).

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Armenia or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank's team that works in Armenia, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Armenia. The World Bank commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in Armenia.The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives:- Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Armenia perceive the Bank;- Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Armenia regarding:· Their views regarding the general environment in Armenia;· Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank in Armenia;· Overall impressions of the World Bank's effectiveness and results, knowledge and research, and communication and information sharing in Armenia; and· Perceptions of the World Bank's future role in Armenia.- Use data to help inform the Armenia country team's strategy.

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Lao PDR or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank's team that works in Lao PDR, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Lao PDR. The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Lao PDR perceive the Bank; Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Lao PDR regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Lao PDR; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank in Lao PDR; · Overall impressions of the World Bank's effectiveness and results, knowledge and research, and communication and information sharing in Lao PDR; and · Perceptions of the World Bank's future role in Lao PDR. Use data to help inform the Lao PDR country team's strategy.

Abstract

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Indonesia or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank's team that works in Indonesia, more in-depth insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Indonesia. The World Bank commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in Indonesia.

The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: - Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Indonesia perceive the Bank; - Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Indonesia regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Indonesia; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank in Indonesia; · Overall impressions of the World Bank's effectiveness and results, knowledge and research, and communication and information sharing in Indonesia; and · Perceptions of the World Bank's future role in Indonesia. - Use data to help inform the Indonesia country team's strategy.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

Stakeholder

Universe

Stakeholders of the World Bank in Indonesia

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

In March and April 2012, 866 stakeholders of the World Bank in Indonesia were invited to provide their opinions on the Bank's assistance to the country by participating in a country survey. Participants in the survey were drawn from among the office of the President; the office of a Minister/Coordinating Minister; the office of a Parliamentarian; employees of a ministry, ministerial department, or implementation agency; consultants/contractors working on World Bank supported projects/programs; project management units (PMUs) overseeing implementation of project; local government officials or staff; bilateral agencies; multilateral agencies; private sector organizations; private foundations; financial sector/private banks; NGOs; community based organizations; the media; independent government institutions; trade unions; faith-based groups; academia, research institutes or think tanks; and the judiciary branch.

Mode of data collection

Mail Questionnaire [mail]

Research instrument

The Questionnaire consists of 8 Sections:

A. General Issues facing Indonesia: Respondents were asked to indicate whether Indonesia is headed in the right direction, what they thought were the top three most important development priorities, and which areas would contribute most to poverty reduction and economic growth in Indonesia.

B. Overall Attitudes toward the World Bank: Respondents were asked to rate their familiarity with the World Bank, the Bank’s effectiveness in Indonesia, the extent to which the Bank meets Indonesia’s need for knowledge services and financial instruments, the extent to which the Bank should and does seek to influence the global development agenda, their agreement with various statements regarding the Bank’s work in Indonesia, and the extent to which the Bank is an effective development partner. Respondents were also asked to indicate the sectoral areas on which it would be most productive for the Bank to focus its resources, the Bank’s greatest values and greatest weaknesses in its work, the Bank instruments that are most and least effective in reducing poverty, with which groups the Bank should work more, and to what reasons respondents attributed failed or slow reform efforts.

C. World Bank Effectiveness and Results: Respondents were asked to rate the extent to which the Bank’s work helps achieve sustainable development results in Indonesia and the Bank’s level of effectiveness across thirty-four development areas, such as poverty reduction, anti-corruption, and economic growth.

D. The World Bank’s Knowledge: Respondents were asked to indicate the areas on which the Bank should focus its research efforts and to rate the effectiveness and quality of the Bank’s knowledge/research, including how significant of a contribution the Bank’s knowledge and research make to development results, the technical quality of the Bank’s knowledge/ research, and the Bank’s effectiveness at providing linkage to non-Bank expertise.

E. Working with the World Bank: Respondents were asked to rate their level of agreement with a series of statements regarding working with the Bank, such as the Bank disbursing funds promptly, the World Bank safeguard policies requirements being reasonable, and working with the World Bank increasing Indonesia’s institutional capacity.

F. The Future Role of the World Bank in Indonesia: Respondents were asked to rate how significant a role the Bank should play in Indonesia’s development over the medium term and to indicate what the Bank should do to make itself of greater value in Indonesia.

G. Communication and Information Sharing: Respondents were asked to indicate where they get information about economic and social development issues, how they prefer to receive information from the Bank, and their access to the Internet. Respondents were asked about their awareness of the Bank’s Access to Information policy, past information requests from the Bank, and their level of agreement that they use more data from the World Bank as a result of the Bank’s Open Data policy. Respondents were asked to indicate their usage and evaluation of the Bank’s website and PICs. Respondents were also asked their level of agreement that they know how to find information from the Bank and that the Bank is responsive to information requests.

H. Background Information: Respondents were asked to indicate their current position, specialization, whether they professionally collaborate with the World Bank, their exposure to the Bank in Indonesia, and their geographic location.

Response rate

A total of 265 stakeholders participated in the country survey (31%).

Abstract

The World Bank Group is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Brazil or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank Group's team that works in Brazil, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank Group uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank Group hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Brazil at the federal/state/municipal level. The World Bank Group commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in Brazil.

This survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: - Assist the World Bank Group in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Brazil perceive the Bank;

• Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Brazil regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Brazil; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank Group in Brazil; · Overall impressions of the World Bank Group's effectiveness and results, knowledge work, and communication and information sharing in Brazil; · Perceptions of the recent trends and the World Bank Group's future role in Brazil.

• Use data to help inform Brazil country team's strategy.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

Stakeholder

Universe

Stakeholders of the World Bank in Brazil

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

From June to August 2013, 10,200 stakeholders of the World Bank Group in Brazil were invited to provide their opinions on the Bank's assistance to the country by participating in a country survey. Participants in the survey were drawn from the office of the President, Prime Minister/Minister, office of a parliamentarian, ministries, ministerial departments, or implementation agencies; consultants/ contractors working on World Bank Group-supported projects/programs; project management units (PMUs) overseeing implementation of a project; state Government; municipal governments; bilateral and multilateral agencies; private sector organizations; private foundations; the financial sector/private banks; NGOs; community-based organizations; the media; independent government institutions; trade unions; academia/research institutes/think tanks; faith-based groups, the judiciary branch; and other organizations.

Mode of data collection

Internet [int]

Research instrument

The Questionnaire consists of 8 Sections:

A. General Issues facing Brazil: Respondents were asked to indicate whether Brazil is headed in the right direction, what they thought were the top three development priorities in Brazil, and which areas would contribute most to reducing poverty and generating economic growth

B. Overall Attitudes toward the World Bank Group: Respondents were asked to rate their familiarity with the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Latin American Development Bank, and the International Finance Corporation, their perceived effectiveness of these organizations in Brazil, and which of these organizations they work with the most in Brazil. They were asked to rate the Bank staff's preparedness to help Brazil solve its development challenges, their agreement with various statements regarding the Bank's work, and the extent to which the Bank is an effective development partner.

Respondents were also asked to indicate the Bank's greatest values, greatest weaknesses, the most effective instruments in helping reduce poverty in Brazil, in which sectoral areas the Bank should focus most resources, to what extent the Bank should seek to influence the global development agenda, and to what reasons respondents attributed failed or slow reform efforts. Respondents were invited to indicate at what level (federal, state, or municipal) the World Bank Group works mostly in Brazil. They were asked if the Bank is most effective when it works in one sector or multi-sectorally. Lastly, they were asked to indicate to what extent they believe the combination of financial, knowledge, and convening services provided by the Bank meets the national development needs of Brazil.

C. World Bank Group Effectiveness and Results: Respondents were asked to rate the extent to which the Bank's work helps achieve development results, the extent to which the Bank meets Brazil's needs for knowledge services and financial instruments, and the Bank's level of effectiveness across thirty-two development areas, such as education, public sector governance/reform, health, transport, and anti-corruption. They were also asked to what extent they believe that Brazil receives value for money from the World Bank Group's fee-based services/products.

D. The World Bank Group's Knowledge: Respondents were asked to indicate the areas on which the Bank should focus its research efforts and to rate the effectiveness and quality of the Bank's knowledge work and activities, including how significant of a contribution it makes to development results and its technical quality. Respondents were also asked whether they read/consulted the most recent LAC Flagship Report and whether it provided useful information in their work.

E. Working with the World Bank Group: Respondents were asked to rate their level of agreement with a series of statements regarding working with the Bank, such as the World Bank Group's "Safeguard Policy" requirements being reasonable, the Bank imposing reasonable conditions on its lending, disbursing funds promptly, increasing Brazil's institutional capacity, and providing effective implementation support.

F. The Future Role of the World Bank Group in Brazil: Respondents were asked to rate how significant a role the World Bank Group should play in Brazil in the near future and to indicate what the Bank should do to make itself of greater value. Respondents were asked to indicate to what extent they believe the World Bank Group has moved in the right direction in terms of the focus of its work in Brazil and how significant a role international development cooperation should play in Brazil's development in the near future at the federal, state, and/or municipal level.

G. Communication and Information Sharing: Respondents were asked to indicate how they get information about economic and social development issues, how they prefer to receive information from the Bank, and their usage and evaluation of the Bank's websites. Respondents were asked about their awareness of the Bank's Access to Information policy, whether they used/had used the World Bank Group website, and whether they accessed the Bank's social media channels. Respondents were also asked about their level of agreement that they know how to find information from the Bank, and that the Bank is responsive to information requests. Respondents were also asked to indicate what kind of e-services they are currently subscribed to.

H. Background Information: Respondents were asked to indicate their current position, specialization, at what level (federal, state, or municipal) they primarily work at, whether they professionally collaborate with the World Bank Group, whether they worked with the International Finance Corporation in Brazil, their exposure to the Bank in Brazil, and their geographic location.

Response rate

A total of 200 stakeholders participated in the survey (2% response rate).

The average for 2023 based on 26 countries was 1002.54 million U.S. dollars. The highest value was in Tajikistan: 4633.75 million U.S. dollars and the lowest value was in the Central African Republic: 0 million U.S. dollars. The indicator is available from 1970 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Niger or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank's team that works in Niger, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Niger. The World Bank commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in Niger. The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Niger perceive the Bank; Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Niger regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Niger; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank in Niger; · Overall impressions of the World Bank's effectiveness and results, knowledge and research, and communication and information sharing in Niger; and · Perceptions of the World Bank's future role in Niger. Use data to help inform the Niger country team's strategy.

Abstract

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Honduras or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank's team that works in Honduras, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Honduras. The World Bank commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in Honduras.

This survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: - Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Honduras perceive the Bank;

• Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Honduras regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Honduras; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank in Honduras; · Overall impressions of the World Bank's effectiveness and results, knowledge and research, and communication and information sharing in Honduras; · Perceptions of the World Bank's future role in Honduras.

• Use data to help inform Honduras country team's strategy.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

Stakeholder

Universe

Stakeholders of the World Bank in Honduras

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

In May-June 2013, 300 stakeholders of the World Bank in Honduras were invited to provide their opinions on the Bank's assistance to the country by participating in a country survey. Participants in the survey were drawn from the office of a minister; office of a Parliamentarian; employees of a ministry, ministerial department, or implementation agency; consultants/ contractors working on World Bank-supported projects/programs; project management units (PMUs) overseeing implementation of a project; local government officials or staff; bilateral and multilateral agencies; private sector organizations; private foundations; the financial sector/private banks; NGOs; community-based organizations; the media; independent government institutions; trade unions; academia/research institutes/think tanks; and other organizations.

Mode of data collection

Mail Questionnaire [mail]

Research instrument

The Questionnaire consists of 8 Sections:

A. General Issues Facing Honduras: Respondents were asked to indicate whether Honduras is headed in the right direction, what they thought were the top three most important development priorities in the country, and whether they think the Bank is effectively investing to support these priorities.

B. Overall Attitudes toward the World Bank: Respondents were asked to rate their familiarity with the World Bank, the Bank's effectiveness in Honduras, Bank staff preparedness to help Honduras solve its development challenges, their agreement with various statements regarding the Bank's work, and the extent to which the Bank is an effective development partner. Respondents were asked to indicate the Bank's greatest values, the most effective instruments in helping to reduce poverty in Honduras, with which stakeholder groups the Bank should collaborate more, and to what reasons respondents attributed failed or slow reform efforts.

C. World Bank Effectiveness and Results: Respondents were asked to rate the extent to which the Bank's work helps achieve development results in Honduras, the extent to which the Bank meets Honduras's needs for knowledge services and financial instruments, and the Bank's level of effectiveness across sixteen development areas, such as education, anti-corruption, job creation/employment, and crime and violence.

D. The World Bank's Knowledge: Respondents were asked to indicate how frequently they consult Bank knowledge and research, to rate the effectiveness and quality of the Bank's knowledge and research, including how significant of a contribution it makes to development results and its technical quality, and to rate how effective the Bank is at providing linkage to non-Bank expertise.

E. Working with the World Bank: Respondents were asked to rate their level of agreement with a series of statements regarding working with the Bank, such as the World Bank's "Safeguard Policy" requirements being reasonable, the Bank imposing reasonable conditions on its lending, disbursing funds promptly, increasing Honduras's institutional capacity, and providing effective implementation support.

F. The Future Role of the World Bank in Honduras: Respondents were asked to indicate what the Bank should do to make itself of greater value, what would be the most valuable ways the Bank could support Honduras's efforts to see through pro poor growth, and what would be the most valuable ways the Bank could support the country's efforts to decrease the levels of crime and violence in Honduras.

G. Communication and Information Sharing: Respondents were asked to indicate how they get information about economic and social development issues, how they prefer to receive information from the Bank, and their usage and evaluation of the Bank's websites. Respondents were asked about their awareness of the Bank's Access to Information policy, past information requests from the Bank, and their level of agreement that they use more data from the World Bank as a result of the Bank's Open Data policy. Respondents were also asked about their level of agreement that they know how to find information from the Bank, that the Bank's websites are easy to navigate and useful, and that the Bank is responsive to information requests. Respondents were also asked to indicate what connection they primarily use when visiting a Bank website, whether they use/have used the Bank's Public Information Centers (PICs) in Honduras, and whether they find the Bank's PIC a valuable source of information related to the development in Honduras.

H. Background Information: Respondents were asked to indicate their current position, specialization, whether they professionally collaborate with the World Bank, their exposure to the Bank in Honduras, and their geographic location.

Response rate

A total of 130 stakeholders participated in the survey (43% response rate).

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Thailand or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank's team that works in Thailand, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Thailand. The World Bank commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in Thailand. The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Thailand perceive the Bank; Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Thailand regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Thailand; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank in Thailand; · Overall impressions of the World Bank's effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Thailand; and · Perceptions of the World Bank's future role in Thailand. Use data to help inform Thailand country team's strategy.

Analysis of ‘World Bank WDI 2.12 - Health Systems’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/danevans/world-bank-wdi-212-health-systems on 28 January 2022.

--- Dataset description provided by original source is as follows ---

World Bank - World Development Indicators: Health Systems

This is a digest of the information described at http://wdi.worldbank.org/table/2.12# It describes various health spending per capita by Country, as well as doctors, nurses and midwives, and specialist surgical staff per capita

Content

Notes, explanations, etc. 1. There are countries/regions in the World Bank data not in the Covid-19 data, and countries/regions in the Covid-19 data with no World Bank data. This is unavoidable. 2. There were political decisions made in both datasets that may cause problems. I chose to go forward with the data as presented, and did not attempt to modify the decisions made by the dataset creators (e.g., the names of countries, what is and is not a country, etc.).

Columns are as follows: 1. Country_Region: the region as used in Kaggle Covid-19 spread data challenges. 2. Province_State: the region as used in Kaggle Covid-19 spread data challenges. 3. World_Bank_Name: the name of the country used by the World Bank 4. Health_exp_pct_GDP_2016: Level of current health expenditure expressed as a percentage of GDP. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year. This indicator does not include capital health expenditures such as buildings, machinery, IT and stocks of vaccines for emergency or outbreaks.

1. Health_exp_public_pct_2016: Share of current health expenditures funded from domestic public sources for health. Domestic public sources include domestic revenue as internal transfers and grants, transfers, subsidies to voluntary health insurance beneficiaries, non-profit institutions serving households (NPISH) or enterprise financing schemes as well as compulsory prepayment and social health insurance contributions. They do not include external resources spent by governments on health.

2. Health_exp_out_of_pocket_pct_2016: Share of out-of-pocket payments of total current health expenditures. Out-of-pocket payments are spending on health directly out-of-pocket by households.

3. Health_exp_per_capita_USD_2016: Current expenditures on health per capita in current US dollars. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year.

4. per_capita_exp_PPP_2016: Current expenditures on health per capita expressed in international dollars at purchasing power parity (PPP).

5. External_health_exp_pct_2016: Share of current health expenditures funded from external sources. External sources compose of direct foreign transfers and foreign transfers distributed by government encompassing all financial inflows into the national health system from outside the country. External sources either flow through the government scheme or are channeled through non-governmental organizations or other schemes.

6. Physicians_per_1000_2009-18: Physicians include generalist and specialist medical practitioners.

7. Nurse_midwife_per_1000_2009-18: Nurses and midwives include professional nurses, professional midwives, auxiliary nurses, auxiliary midwives, enrolled nurses, enrolled midwives and other associated personnel, such as dental nurses and primary care nurses.

8. Specialist_surgical_per_1000_2008-18: Specialist surgical workforce is the number of specialist surgical, anaesthetic, and obstetric (SAO) providers who are working in each country per 100,000 population.

9. Completeness_of_birth_reg_2009-18: Completeness of birth registration is the percentage of children under age 5 whose births were registered at the time of the survey. The numerator of completeness of birth registration includes children whose birth certificate was seen by the interviewer or whose mother or caretaker says the birth has been registered.

10. Completeness_of_death_reg_2008-16: Completeness of death registration is the estimated percentage of deaths that are registered with their cause of death information in the vital registration system of a country.

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Inspiration

Does health spending levels (public or private), or hospital staff have any effect on the rate at which Covid-19 spreads in a country? Can we use this data to predict the rate at which Cases or Fatalities will grow?

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Abstract

The World Bank Group is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Colombia or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank Group's team that works in Colombia, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank Group uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank Group hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Colombia. The World Bank Group commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in Colombia.

This survey was designed to achieve the following objectives:

• Assist the World Bank Group in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Colombia perceive the Bank;

• Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Colombia regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Colombia; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank Group in Colombia; · Overall impressions of the World Bank Group's effectiveness and results, knowledge and convening services, and communication and information sharing in Colombia; and · Perceptions of the World Bank Group's future role in Colombia.

• Use data to help inform Colombia country team's strategy.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

Stakeholder

Universe

Stakeholders of the World Bank in Colombia

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

In May and June 2013, 665 stakeholders of the World Bank Group in Colombia were invited to provide their opinions on the Bank's assistance to the country by participating in a country survey. Participants in the survey were drawn from among the office of the President; the office of a Minister; the office of a Parliamentarian; employees of a ministry, ministerial department, or implementation agency; consultants/contractors working on World Bank Group-supported projects/programs; project management units (PMUs) overseeing implementation of a project; local government officials or staff; bilateral agencies; multilateral agencies; private sector organizations; private foundations; the financial sector/private banks; NGOs; community-based organizations (CBOs); the media; independent government institutions; trade unions; faith-based groups; academia/research institutes/think tanks; and the judiciary branch.

Mode of data collection

Mail Questionnaire [mail]

Research instrument

The Questionnaire consists of 9 Sections:

A. General Issues Facing Colombia: Respondents were asked to indicate whether Colombia is headed in the right direction, what they thought were the top three most important development priorities, which areas would contribute most to reducing poverty in Colombia, and how to best achieve "shared prosperity".

B. Overall Attitudes toward the World Bank Group (WBG): Respondents were asked to rate their familiarity with the WBG and the IFC, the WBG's effectiveness in Colombia, the effectiveness of the WBG's collaboration, the WBG's staff preparedness to help Colombia solve its development challenges, their agreement with various statements regarding the WBG's work, and the extent to which the WBG is an effective development partner and the WBG's services meet the national development needs of Colombia. Respondents were also asked to indicate the sectoral areas on which it would be most productive for the WBG to focus its resources, the WBG's greatest weaknesses in its work, with which stakeholder groups the WBG should collaborate more, and to what reasons respondents attributed failed or slow reform efforts.

C. World Bank Group Effectiveness and Results: Respondents were asked to rate the extent to which the WBG's work helps achieve development results in Colombia, the extent to which the WBG meets Colombia's needs for knowledge services and financial instruments, and the WBG's level of effectiveness across nine aspects of Colombia's national development plan.

D. The World Bank Group's Knowledge and Convening Services: Respondents were asked to indicate how frequently they interact with the WBG on knowledge and convening services and to rate the quality of the WBG's knowledge and convening services, including how significant of a contribution it makes to development results and its technical quality. Respondents were also asked if they consulted the most recent LAC Flagship Report and if so, to evaluate it.

E. Working with the World Bank Group: Respondents were asked to rate their level of agreement with a series of statements regarding working with the WBG, such as working with the World Bank Group increasing Colombia's institutional capacity.

F. The Future Role of the World Bank Group in Colombia: Respondents were asked to rate to what extent the World Bank has moved in the right direction in the last three years, how significant a role the WBG and international development corporation should play in Colombia's development in the near future, and how significant a role the IFC should play in helping Colombia achieve its goals in the future. Respondents were also asked to indicate what the WBG should do to make itself of greater value in Colombia and which services the WBG should offer more of in Colombia.

G. Communication and Information Sharing: Respondents were asked to indicate how they get information about development issues, how they prefer to receive information from the WBG, and their usage and evaluation of the WBG's website. Respondents were asked about their awareness of the WBG's Access to Information policy, past information requests, and their level of agreement that they use more data from the WBG than a few years ago. Respondents were also asked about their level of agreement that they know how to find information from the WBG and that the WBG is responsive to information requests.

H. Development Organizations in the Region: Respondents were asked to rate their familiarity and impressions of effectiveness with the Inter-American Development Bank and Latin American Development Bank.

I. Background Information: Respondents were asked to indicate their current position, specialization, whether they professionally collaborate with the WBG, whether they are an IFC client, their exposure to the WBG in Colombia, which WBG agencies they work with, and geographic location.

Response rate

A total of 271 stakeholders participated in the country survey (41% response rate).

Remittances are transfers of money by a person working in a foreign location to a person or family back home as household income. As per IMF, Remittances are typically transfers from a well-meaning individual or family member to another individual or household. They are targeted to meet specific needs of the recipients, and this tends to reduce poverty. This dataset contains year and country-wise remittance inflows. It also has data related to Low and Middle income countries

Note: 1) All numbers are in current (nominal) US Dollars. 2) Venezuela has been unclassfied due to the unvailability data, thus it is not included in aggregate sum