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Erick Boy

Erick Boy

Erick Boy is the Chief Nutritionist in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. As head of nutrition for the HarvestPlus Program since 2008, he has led research that has generated scientific evidence on biofortified staple crops as efficacious and effective interventions to help address iron, vitamin A, and zinc deficiency in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Let’s SPEED Up

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By Yifei Liu

Public resources are limited and determining how to best allocate finite funds to achieve the greatest impact on poverty reduction and economic development requires credible public expenditure data. However, due to a lack of systematic collection and tabling as well as an absence of guidelines to link different types of expenditures, this type of data has been scarce and inconsistent. 

With a goal of better understanding the relationship between public investment and economic development, IFPRI created the Statistics of Public Expenditure for Economic Development (SPEED) database in 2010, compiling data from both international and national sources.

Updated earlier this year, SPEED is now the most comprehensive open public-expenditure database. The updates include:

* Expanded coverage from 67 to 147 countries, with 13 countries in the East Asia and Pacific region; 14 in Europe and Central Asia; 23 in Latin America and the Caribbean; 16 in the Middle East and North Africa; 8 in South Asia, 39 in Africa south of the Sahara; and all 34 OECD countries;
* Increased coverage from 6 to 8 sectors –agriculture, education, health, defense, social protection, mining, transportation and communication, and total expenditure;
* Data now ranging from 1980 to 2010;
* Improved accuracy by incorporating local and subnational datasets to complement existing data from national sources; 
* Expenditures now presented in per capita terms for easy comparability.

New features include:  

* Data-visualization tools for users to interactively explore and analyze data;
* Open-data format so developers can easily pull data into their websites or projects;
* Downloadable, pre-made graphs at the country, regional, and global levels.

Read more about the SPEED

For more information, contact Samuel Benin.


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