dData

This presentation showcased dData, the winning team of the Nowcasting the Economic Impact of COVID-19 Challenge.

Lakshman Nagraj Rao

Nagraj focuses on agricultural statistics, impact evaluation, poverty measurement and analysis, and methodological research on survey technology. Before joining ADB, he worked with the National Statistics Office in Liberia, and spearheaded Liberia’s first Household Income and Expenditure Survey. He was also Research Analyst and Impact Evaluation Coordinator in the World Bank’s Development Economics Research Group and Africa Education Unit, where he implemented household and agricultural panel surveys alongside supporting baseline activities for impact evaluations in Tanzania.

#DigitalAgainstCOVID-19 Hackathon Winners Showcase

ADB teamed up with the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) for a virtual challenge to crowdsource digital solutions for Asia and the Pacific economies reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Winners of the first two events presented their solutions to the questions of how to track the pandemic impacts in real-time and how to use technology to give smaller firms access to finance.