Predicting poverty and malnutrition for targeting, mapping, monitoring, and early warning

Increasingly plentiful data and powerful predictive algorithms heighten the promise of data science for humanitarian and development programming. We advocate for embrace of, and investment in, machine learning methods for poverty and malnutrition targeting, mapping, monitoring, and early warning whi...

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Main Authors: Mcbride, Linden, Barrett, Christopher B., Browne, Christopher, Hu, Leiqiu, Liu, Yanyan, Matteson, David S., Sun, Ying, Wen, Jiaming
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141111
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author Mcbride, Linden
Barrett, Christopher B.
Browne, Christopher
Hu, Leiqiu
Liu, Yanyan
Matteson, David S.
Sun, Ying
Wen, Jiaming
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Browne, Christopher
Hu, Leiqiu
Liu, Yanyan
Matteson, David S.
Mcbride, Linden
Sun, Ying
Wen, Jiaming
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Barrett, Christopher B.
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Liu, Yanyan
Matteson, David S.
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description Increasingly plentiful data and powerful predictive algorithms heighten the promise of data science for humanitarian and development programming. We advocate for embrace of, and investment in, machine learning methods for poverty and malnutrition targeting, mapping, monitoring, and early warning while also cautioning that distinct objectives require distinct data and methods. In particular, we highlight the differences between poverty and malnutrition targeting and mapping, the differences between structural and stochastic deprivation, and the modeling and data challenges of early warning system development. Overall, we urge careful consideration of the purpose and use cases of machine learning informed models.
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spelling CGSpace1411112025-10-26T13:02:00Z Predicting poverty and malnutrition for targeting, mapping, monitoring, and early warning Mcbride, Linden Barrett, Christopher B. Browne, Christopher Hu, Leiqiu Liu, Yanyan Matteson, David S. Sun, Ying Wen, Jiaming data humanitarian organizations machine learning capacity development early warning systems malnutrition poverty big data Increasingly plentiful data and powerful predictive algorithms heighten the promise of data science for humanitarian and development programming. We advocate for embrace of, and investment in, machine learning methods for poverty and malnutrition targeting, mapping, monitoring, and early warning while also cautioning that distinct objectives require distinct data and methods. In particular, we highlight the differences between poverty and malnutrition targeting and mapping, the differences between structural and stochastic deprivation, and the modeling and data challenges of early warning system development. Overall, we urge careful consideration of the purpose and use cases of machine learning informed models. 2022-06 2024-04-12T13:37:18Z 2024-04-12T13:37:18Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141111 en https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255519 Limited Access Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Mcbride, Linden; Barrett, Christopher B.; Browne, Christopher; Hu, Leiqiu; Liu, Yanyan; Matteson, David S.; Sun, Ying; and Wen, Jiaming. 2022. Predicting poverty and malnutrition for targeting, mapping, monitoring, and early warning. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 44(2): 879-892. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13175
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humanitarian organizations
machine learning
capacity development
early warning systems
malnutrition
poverty
big data
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Barrett, Christopher B.
Browne, Christopher
Hu, Leiqiu
Liu, Yanyan
Matteson, David S.
Sun, Ying
Wen, Jiaming
Predicting poverty and malnutrition for targeting, mapping, monitoring, and early warning
title Predicting poverty and malnutrition for targeting, mapping, monitoring, and early warning
title_full Predicting poverty and malnutrition for targeting, mapping, monitoring, and early warning
title_fullStr Predicting poverty and malnutrition for targeting, mapping, monitoring, and early warning
title_full_unstemmed Predicting poverty and malnutrition for targeting, mapping, monitoring, and early warning
title_short Predicting poverty and malnutrition for targeting, mapping, monitoring, and early warning
title_sort predicting poverty and malnutrition for targeting mapping monitoring and early warning
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humanitarian organizations
machine learning
capacity development
early warning systems
malnutrition
poverty
big data
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141111
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