COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Economic Innovation Group (EIG) has released a major report: "Advancing Economic Development in Persistent-Poverty Communities" that finds a larger base ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Leveraging national surveys, big data, and machine learning, Cornell University researchers have developed a new approach to mapping poverty that could help policymakers and NGOs better ...

For years, policymakers have relied upon surveys and census data to track and respond to extreme poverty. While effective, assembling this information is costly and time-consuming, and it often lacks ...

We begin by providing a brief review of the poverty mapping literature that dates back to early 2000s. In a nutshell, estimates of poverty at the small area level are obtained by predicting household ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. States in the South and West have the highest rates of child poverty, ...

The idea of a Water Poverty Index (WPI) with a numerical value was formulated by scientists in an effort to express the complex relationship between sustainable water resource management and poverty ...

A new mapping technique shows how researchers are developing computational tools that combine cellphone records with data from satellites and geographic information systems to create timely and ...