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Millions of kids won’t be heading to university this year. Here’s what we can do about it

This fall, millions of students in the U.S. are preparing to go back to college. Yet young people from certain demographics, especially low-income youth and those whose parents didn’t go to college, are likely to be underrepresented in their ranks....
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Dalberg Data Insights Predicts Zika and Dengue Outbreaks in São Paulo

Mosquito-borne diseases, like Zika and Dengue, now spread faster and farther, carried by people travelling long distances. These diseases constitute a threat to public health, with 746,000 reported cases of Dengue in Brazil in 2015 and over half occurring in...
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Dalberg Data Insights Maps Urban Mobility across Haiti and around Kampala, Uganda

Today, over 50% of the global population lives in urban centers, and this proportion is projected to climb to 66% by 2050.  This population surge will predominately occur in developing countries with poor infrastructure, where cities already struggle to meet...
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Dalberg Data Insights Protects Malaria-Free Zones in Zambia

Infectious diseases, like malaria, travel where we travel. This spread of disease can be deadly, with an estimated 445,000 malaria-related deaths worldwide in 2016. While mosquitos cannot travel long distances, we can. Further, malaria does not spread only from mosquito...
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Singapore on track to become go-to city for innovative global solutions

This article was originally published in the Business Times.A thousand young people from over 110 countries are now in Singapore for UNLEASH Lab 2018. They are in town not just to add another notch in the conference schedule for which...
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We capture the social value of private data

Dalberg Data Insights builds bridges between private data and important social problems.  We create tools to interpret data and uncover solutions in international development, humanitarian action, and social impact. Throughout the world, and particularly in developing countries, policymakers, NGOs and...
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GDPR: The implications for Africa

The EUs General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) presents a timely opportunity, particularly for regional trade blocs such as the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), to develop a framework for consumer data protection that is specific to the...
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GDPR: The implications for Africa

The EUs General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) presents a timely opportunity, particularly for regional trade blocs such as the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), to develop a framework for consumer data protection that is specific to the...
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Safe surgery Rahels story

Safe surgery for women: sharing Rahel’s Story

All women, everywhere, should be able to access safe surgical care. Up until 2016, when a mother living in Mehoni, a remote town of 20,000 people in northern Ethiopia, faced complications in was referred to a hospital 25 kilometers away a C-section....
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African Development Bank appoints Yana Kakar to its Presidential Youth Advisory Group

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, May 16, 2018 – The African Development Bank has announced the appointment of Yana Kakar to the Presidential Youth Advisory Group, which provides insights and innovative solutions for creating jobs for Africa’s youth.  The African Development Bank’s Jobs...
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New Dalberg study shows social, economic and environmental viability of scaling ethanol cooking fuel in Kenya

Dalberg Advisors has today announced the principal findings of a triple-bottom-line study on scaling clean ethanol cooking fuel in Kenya, including a comparative analysis with Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG). These findings have been released to coincide with the Sustainable Energy...
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Happy cities summit

Happy Cities Summit: Amaravati 2018

The Government of Andhra Pradesh, India in partnership with Dalberg Advisors organised the “Happy Cities Summit: Amaravati 2018”, a global summit on urban innovation in Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, India, from 10-12 April. The summit was centered on the foundational principles...
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