arXiv:2606. 07614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable measurement of income and consumption is essential for monitoring poverty and inequality in low- and middle-income countries, yet full household surveys are costly and difficult to implement regularly.
By Vanesa Jord\'a, Miguel Ni\~no-Zaraz\'ua
arXiv:2607. 20559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monitoring poverty and food security indicators is imperative for addressing socioeconomic challenges in developing nations.
By Aditya Dutt, Paul Gader, Aditya Singh
arXiv:2608.29110v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The United States has allocated approximately $65 billion through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for broadband expansion, yet evidence-base...
By Xiao Han
DeepC4 is a deep learning-based spatial disaggregation method that uses local census statistics as cluster-level constraints and incorporates multiple conditional label relationships in a multitask learning framework. Applied to Rwandan urban morphology, it achieves macro‑F1 scores of 0.63, 0.78, and 0.45 for roof, wall, and height prediction, respectively, and estimates national dwelling and occupant counts within about 1.1% error compared to census records. The approach outperforms existing GEM and METEOR methods and covers 32‑49% more 500‑meter grid pixels across provinces.
By Joshua Dimasaka, Christian Gei{\ss}, Emily So
Progress in inclusive household surveys has strengthened socioeconomic evidence for forcibly displaced populations, providing indispensable benchmarks on living conditions and welfare. However, these...
arXiv:2501. 14546v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper investigates the novel application of Large Language Models (LLMs) with vision capabilities to analyze satellite imagery for village-level poverty prediction.
By Hamid Sarmadi, Ola Hall, Thorsteinn R\"ognvaldsson, Mattias Ohlsson