Keynote Address
Santiago Levy, Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge, Inter-American Development Bank
Featuring
José Antonio Mejía-Guerra, Co-Author and Lead Specialist, Modernization of the State, Inter-American Development Bank
Shaida Badiee, Managing Director, Open Data Watch
Matthew Taylor, Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University
Roberto Rosales, Deputy Director, Department of Statistics, International Monetary Fund
Moderator
Amanda Glassman, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Drawing from a comparison of political economy factors in ten countries, IDB’s new publication Who wants to know? The Political Economy of Statistical Capacity in Latin America explores the current data capacity landscape in Latin America. The book presents an innovative theoretical and methodological framework to better understand and explain the heterogeneity in statistical capacity of national statistical offices. Through our Working Group on Data for African Development, our work on the Sustainable Development Goals, and our charts of the week, CGD has had a longstanding interest in identifying and overcoming barriers to development data collection, analysis, and application.
CGD and the Inter-American Development Bank are excited to welcome you to this co-hosted book discussion, which will feature a presentation of the publication's findings, followed by a panel highlighting perspectives from a variety of global development statistics and data experts. We hope you will be able to join us.
