Costa Rica ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1994 and has since developed and implemented national climate policies in accordance with its principles, primarily...
A machine learning (ML) algorithm is a type of computer program that learns to perform specific tasks based on various data inputs or rules provided by a human. Since disasters often affect poor and vulnerable...
This brief is part of the solutions for youth employment (S4YE) knowledge brief series focusing on the design and implementation of youth employment programs. In this knowledge brief, the authors highlight...
Moldova is exposed to an array of natural hazards, and their impact disproportionately affects the poor. The Government of Moldova has been strengthening institutions to better prepare for and respond...
This paper proposes a methodology for identifying urban areas that combines subjective assessments with machine learning, and applies it to India, a country where several studies see the official urbanization...
Since its establishment in 2011, OpenDRI has successfully applied the open databased approaches called for in the Sendai Framework to address the challenges of reducing vulnerability to natural hazards...
The adoption of crowdsourced geographic data, or volunteered geographic information (VGI), as a valuable source of spatial data is growing at all levels of government. VGI is crowdsourced geographic information...
Information and communication have always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown crops, raised livestock, and caught fish, they have sought information from one another. Agriculture is facing...
During disasters, efficient and effective risk identification is imperative to saving lives and livelihoods. Access to preliminary data of hazard impacts improves operational decision-making, saving critical...
Using mobile phone technologies coupled with water quality testing, there is great opportunity to increase the awareness of water quality throughout rural and urban communities in developing countries...
Poland is the European growth champion. Since 1989, it has more than doubled its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, coming in ahead of all European peers. It was the only EU economy to avoid the...
Poland is the European growth champion. Since 1989, it has more than doubled its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, coming in ahead of all European peers. It was the only EU economy to avoid the...
Transport efficiency and safety in the advanced economies have long benefited from information and communication technology (ICT). However, these ICT applications have typically been high-cost, customized...
This newsletter includes the following headings: $1.90 international poverty line incorporates 2011 PPPs; workshop on crowdsourcing food prices in Africa; 60th International Statistical Institute World...
This study uses Twitter data to provide a more nuanced understanding of the public reaction to the 2011 reform to the propane gas subsidy in El Salvador. By soliciting a small sample of manually tagged...