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Data for development

2025/6/17
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Mulele Maketo Mulele: 作为赞比亚财政部常务秘书,我主要负责使用数据进行治理。我们在税收政策、国家规划和预算编制中都需要大量高质量的数据。特别是在税收方面,我们需要详细的租赁收入数据,包括租户信息、水电消耗等,以提高税收合规性。此外,就业数据对于了解贫困状况至关重要,但我们目前依赖的调查数据存在时间间隔。为了打破数据孤岛,我们与 IGC 合作建立了证据实验室,旨在提升公务员的数据分析能力,并促进跨部门数据共享。我们还致力于发布更多数据,让研究人员、学术界、民间社会和政府能够进行分析。在宏观经济改革方面,数据在债务重组和债务可持续性分析中发挥了关键作用,帮助我们制定合理的财政政策,并与国际货币基金组织等机构进行有效沟通。尽管数据至关重要,但我们仍然面临获取、保证数据质量、标准化和及时性等挑战。 主持人: 在发展中国家,数据就像一面镜子,它反映了我们所测量或未测量的事物。数据可以揭示我们已知的信息,隐藏的信息,以及我们选择关注或忽略的方面。因此,如何有意义地利用数据来促进包容性发展和改善治理,是一个值得深入探讨的问题。

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This chapter explores the data challenges faced by policymakers in Zambia's Ministry of Finance. It highlights the need for better employment data, the use of data in macroeconomic reforms, and strategies to overcome data silos within government.
  • Insufficient employment data hinders poverty reduction efforts.
  • Data plays a crucial role in macroeconomic reforms, debt restructuring, and policy justifications.
  • Overcoming data silos requires collaboration, capacity building, and data sharing across ministries.

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Contributor(s): Natalia Domagala, Mulele Maketo Mulele, Claire Melamed | Data plays a crucial role in designing effective development policies, yet its availability and use in low- and middle-income countries remain inconsistent. In some cases, data is simply unavailable, in others it exists but remains underutilised due to limited access or awareness.