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These new poverty maps could reshape how we deliver international aid Granular geographic targeting, down to 2-by-2-kilometer squares, may help pinpoint the very poorest who need urgent financial assistance—and COVID-19 vaccines. “…The new model—called the Relative Wealth Index—will be freely available... Read More →

How satellite images are helping one country hand out cash Togo has found a high-tech way to identify people who need financial help in the pandemic and send them emergency cash. They use computers to search for clues in... Read More →

A team led by lab Director Joshua Blumenstock, along with Karen Chapple and Matthew Desmod, has received a grant to investigate and address eviction spikes and displacement risks related to COVID-19. They’re among the first grantees of the newly created... Read More →

We won a best paper award at the NuerIPS Joint Workshop on AI for Social Good for our paper, Balancing Competing Objectives for Welfare-Aware Machine Learning with Imperfect Data. Congrats everyone!

Emily Aiken and Joshua Blumenstock will be giving talks at the Big Ag Data Conference at UC Davis on Jan 10. Catch them at 11am: The Promise (and Pitfalls) of Using Mobile Phone Data in Development Research, Josh Blumenstock Can Mobile... Read More →