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GOL partners with World Food Programme in Haiti

Date27 Apr 2025

We are excited to launch a collaboration with the World Food Programme in Haiti, to test innovative approaches to humanitarian response during severe crises. Stay...

Lab funded by Jameel Observatory

Date08 Mar 2025

The Jameel Observatory has generously provided support for the Lab’s research on “Improved Early Warning of Food Insecurity”, led by PhD student Susana Constenla-Villoslada.

Nitin Kohli’s work with UNHCR featured by Harvard OpenDP

Date04 Mar 2025

Nitin Kohli’s collaboration with UNHCR to share refugee data in a privacy-preserving manner was featured in Harvard OpenDP’s news update. The article describes how advances...

Public launch of interactive poverty maps

Date28 Feb 2025

GOL has publicly released extremely high-resolution poverty maps, available for free at https://www.povertymaps.net/

Lab’s research featured in Nature

Date26 Feb 2025

Research by GOL was featured in the Nature article, “Can AI help beat poverty? Researchers test ways to aid the poorest people.” The article describes...

Paper published in Review of Economic Studies

Date06 Feb 2025

Blumenstock’s work with lab alum Guanghua Chi, and Xu Tan, was published in the Review of Economic Studies. Migration and the Value of Social Networks...

FastCompany on lab’s research: These new poverty maps could reshape how we deliver international aid

Date16 Apr 2024

These new poverty maps could reshape how we deliver international aid Granular geographic targeting, down to 2-by-2-kilometer squares, may help pinpoint the very poorest who...