This paper evaluates different methods for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including methods that apply … methods are evaluated by withholding measured poverty rates and determining how accurately the methods predict the held … 1,000+ variables. This GDP-based approach outperforms all models that predict poverty rates directly, even when the last …

This paper evaluates different methods for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including methods that apply … methods are evaluated by withholding measured poverty rates and determining how accurately the methods predict the held … on 1,000+ variables. This GDP-based approach outperforms all models that predict poverty rates directly, even when the …

The prevalence of energy poverty as a major challenge in numerous countries, the escalating energy crisis that … energy poverty schemes, enabling the accurate prediction of energy vulnerable households via objective, publicly available … algorithms, most of our analysis is performed using a Random Forest classifier. Our approach to explore energy poverty beyond …