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Software platform for Automated Economic Analysis

Software platform for Automated Economic Analysis. Why ADePT?. Each year World Bank produces: 10-15 poverty assessments 5-10 Labor market studies 10 Education and Health assessments Gender studies Nutritional Studies Reports on Social protection and Benefit-Incidence analysis, etc.

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Software platform for Automated Economic Analysis

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  1. Software platform for Automated Economic Analysis

  2. Why ADePT? • Each year World Bank produces: • 10-15 poverty assessments • 5-10 Labor market studies • 10 Education and Health assessments • Gender studies • Nutritional Studies • Reports on Social protection and Benefit-Incidence analysis, etc. • Reports produced for different countries or years use similar sets of analytical results (tables/graphs). • Significant resources are spent in each report on production of these results. • We recognized a possibility to automate this process.

  3. Automated Economic Analysis • Speed-up production of basic (required) results • Free resources for more meaningful and interesting tasks. • Easily introduce new techniques and methods • Minimize human errors • Generate standard, comparable results across the countries/years. • Minimize training time • Surveys for ADePT

  4. ADePT: From data to report User micro-level data: DHS, LSMS, LFS, … ADePT Inside ADePT: User Computational interface kernel (Stata) Print-ready output

  5. ADePT Labor: Overview of the Labor Force Table 1.1: broad overview. It will help you: • determine if unemployment is a problem to focus on or if quality of employment (low earnings, etc.) should be focus • the level of child labor and more • As with all tables, you can see changes over time • Table 1.3: Where employment is located by type of work • You can use designation you like: formal/informal; not just employment type • It will also break into ag/non-ag • Table 1.4: Welfare status for each worker type - including median earnings, low earnings rates, inequality of earnings, etc. • Table 1.5a: Shares of workers by sector • Table 1.5b: Share of workers by education (and broken ag/non-ag)

  6. ADePT Labor: Poverty and Labor Market • Help you identify where poverty is concentrated • type of workers & sectors • This section uses two ways of calculating outcomes: • a) calculate it using individual sector of employment; • b) calculate it using the sector of employment of the household head. • The Tables in the Annex are used for follow up once an initial investigation reveals an area of interest: • They give a disaggregation of main indicators by different groups for unemployment, low earnings, child labor, etc.

  7. ADePT V4.0 • Accepts individual- and household-level data in Stataand SPSS format. Uses Stata numerical engine for computations. • Minimal data preparation required from the users • Extensive diagnostics of possible problems with the data • ADePT is a tool for simulations and sensitivity analysis • Intuitive user-friendly interface • Tested on the datesets from more than 50 countries: LSMS, HBS, DHS • Users of ADePT come from the WB, international research institutions, universities, and government agencies. • Expected increase in the number of users when new modules are released

  8. ADePTV4.0: The roadmap • ADePTPoverty: Released – June 2007 • ADePTLabor: Released – November 2007 • ADePTGender: Released – November 2008 • ADePTSocial Protection:Released – June 2009 • ADePTEducation: Released– September 2009 • ADePTHealth: Released – December 2009 • ADePTInequality: Planned Release – Spring 2010 • ADePTTargeting: Planned Release – Summer 2010 • ADePTPLINES: Development stage • ADePTCrisis: Development stage • ADePTNutrition: Development stage ADePTMAPS: Released – November 2008

  9. ADePT Solutions: • ADePT offers users a solution of a particular problem. • Modules of ADePT produce sets of predefined analytical results (tables, graphs) sufficient to give an answer to a particular question. • Combination of software tools and the substantive contributions from the leading experts in a field. • Martin Ravallion (WB) : Poverty • Adam Wagstaff (WB) : Health • Harold Alderman (WB) : Nutrition • Two main directions of ADePT: • Assessments of the current situation • Projections and simulations

  10. ADePT ROI Costs: • Zero monetary cost – ADePT is free. • Minimal cost in terms of training • Localized versions of ADePT lower this cost even more. • No change in the standard production function for analytical results. Revenues: • Saves at least several weeks of consultant/staff time per module • Allows much faster delivery of the reports ~ timely policies, better relations with a client.

  11. Website: www.worldbank.org/adept

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