Seeing Between the Lines: Visualizing Global Poverty Trends
Last month, while World Bank President Jim Yong Kim launched the gender data portal, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remarked that “data not only measures progress, it inspires it”. Indeed...
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DataDive Q&A with Data Ambassadors: Tackling Poverty with Technology
This post is part of the Q&A Series with the Data Ambassadors from DataDive2013. You can also read an interview with the poverty data ambassadors, a recap of Data Dive 2013, and watch the...
View ArticleDIY: Measuring Global, Regional Poverty Using PovcalNet, the Online...
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim recently announced ambitious goals to end poverty and boost shared prosperity, with a target to reduce the percentage of absolute poor – those living on or less...
View ArticleMuch of the world is deprived of poverty data. Let’s fix this.
Cross posted from the Let's Talk Development Blog Data Deprivation The availability of poverty data has increased over the last 20 years but large gaps remain About half the countries we studied in...
View ArticleChart: global poverty rate to fall below 10% in 2015
The global poverty rate is projected to fall to 9.6% in 2015. New estimates show 702 million people living below $1.90 per day, the majority of them in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
View ArticleHow do you access data on poverty?
End Poverty Day tomorrow comes among heightened discussion about poverty’s causes, its measurement and what we can do to end it. The international extreme poverty line has been updated to $1.90/day,...
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What does it mean to “eradicate extreme poverty” and “halve national poverty”...
This is part of a series of blogs focused on the Sustainable Development Goals and data from the 2016 Edition of World Development Indicators. Sustainable Development Goal 1 is to “end poverty in all...
View ArticleChart: Fewer People Live in Extreme Poverty Than Ever Before
In 2013, an estimated 767 million people were living under the international poverty line of US$1.90 a day. Even as the world's population has grown, the number of poor has gradually fallen. But in...
View ArticleChart: 385 Million Children Live in Extreme Poverty
Half the world's extremely poor are children. New analysis from the World Bank and UNICEF finds that almost 385 million children were living in extreme poverty in 2013. 8 out of 10 of those children...
View ArticleBetween 2 Geeks: Episode 4 - What can you measure with cellphone metadata?
Globally, there are over 98 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, so the chances are, you have a cell phone. Now look at your recent calls, both sent and received: Who do you call most often? Who calls...
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The Goods, the Bad, and the Ugly: Data and the food system
Photo Credit: Goodluz/Shutterstock.com The business of agriculture and food is driven by data, making it the treasure trove of today’s agri-food system. Whether it’s today’s soil moisture, tomorrow’s...
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