Projects

Research streams and software

Two kinds of work, kept side by side on purpose: long-running research programmes, and the tools built so that other people can do the analysis themselves.

Research streams

Land reform in KazakhstanJustus Liebig University Giessen · PhD researchThirty years of land-allocation reform evaluated across 200 rayon-level units.+

Thirty years of land-allocation reform evaluated across 200 rayon-level units. Administrative statistics are combined with geospatial measures of land cover, climate and vegetation, and with the natural experiment of pasture privatization that the thesis itself evaluates.

Land valuation in UkraineThe World Bank · Ukrainian State CadasterMass valuation of agricultural and urban land in a deliberately data-scarce environment.+

Mass valuation of agricultural and urban land in a deliberately data-scarce environment. The regression-based method for agricultural land was adopted by the State Cadaster; the urban work combines real estate listing data with Cadaster and Registry of Rights records, piloted on Lviv.

GeoPovThe World Bank · Global Poverty DepartmentA departmental programme joining microdata with geospatial data to read spatial income and welfare disparities.+

A departmental programme joining microdata with geospatial data to read spatial income and welfare disparities. Co-initiated in the Global Poverty Department.

Software

peaAppR Shiny applicationPoverty and equity analysis, packaged so that a counterpart can run it without an analyst in the room.+

Poverty and equity analysis, packaged so that a counterpart can run it without an analyst in the room. The country workflows are wrapped in an R Shiny application.

devCEQR packageScaling up fiscal microsimulation Shiny apps.+

Scaling up fiscal microsimulation Shiny apps. Deployed for Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Indonesia, Romania, Türkiye, El Salvador and Armenia, with capacity building in Indonesia and Georgia. worldbank.github.io/devCEQ

devPTIpackR packageProject Targeting Index tooling: spatial and micro data combined to improve how development projects choose where to work.+

Project Targeting Index tooling: spatial and micro data combined to improve how development projects choose where to work. Applied across Africa and Asia. worldbank.github.io/devPTIpack

lassopmmR packageLassoing welfare dynamics — synthetic panel construction with machine learning, packaged for reuse.+

Lassoing welfare dynamics — synthetic panel construction with machine learning, packaged for reuse. Written for the Poverty & Equity Global Practice.