Lack of transparency and alleged under-reporting of COVID-19 testing, cases, and deaths has drawn widespread criticism. The problem of determining the reliability of COVID-19 data in developing countries is even more acute as the pandemic has tested most public health systems. We have investigated t...
IDFC Institute has been nominated to be a part of a Working Group convened by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) for formulating a roadmap for cities to build a culture of data-driven governance. The first output of this working group - a strategy document and a Data Maturity Assessme...
In a recent article published in Ideas for India, Florian Blum and Rohini Pande discuss the political economy of data collection.
They state that while India is a notable exception among developing countries when it comes to collecting and releasing data about its poor, it does not measure ...
