This article is part of a special Global Pulse Guest Blogger Series: “Data Mining for Development: Methodological Innovations & Challenges.”
Vanessa Frias-Martinez, PhD is a scientific researcher in the Data Mining and User Modeling Group at Telefonica Research in Madrid, Spain. Her main interest is in technologies for emerging markets and sustainable development. Her research combines...
Description:
This project investigates and shows how scraping online prices could provide real-time insights on price dynamics, focusing on the case of bread in 6 Latin American countries.
Partners:
PriceStats and the Billion Prices Project at MIT
Project Overview:
The objective of this project was to investigate and show how scraping the web for online prices could provide real-time insights on...
To support the international community in combating the criminal exploitation of migrants, UNODC conducted research aimed at monitoring smuggling in different regions of the world. This study, conducted as part of Global Pulse's "Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Assessment Fund" was carried out in Central America and Mexico, and assesses the risks, social costs and hardships of migrants seeking a...
As part of Global Pulse’s “Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Assessment Fund,” United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) conducted three case studies in Colombia, Jordan and Ethiopia with a focus on how the global economic crisis impacts health and poverty.
In Jordan, while government expenditures to reproductive health services had not changed, focus group discussions indicated that increases in...
As part of UN Global Pulse’s “Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Assessment Fund,” UNESCO researched the implications of the global financial crisis on school conditions and resources by examining how primary schools, teachers and households adapt and cope with global crises.
While there have been numerous studies on the effects of macroeconomic shocks on households and the demand for schooling,...
As part of UN Global Pulse’s “Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Assessment Fund,” the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) researched how crises may impact crime levels. More specifically, the analysis is an exploratory attempt to consider whether changes in specific crime types over time may be associated with economic changes as at least one component of underlying factors.
This report...