United Nations Population Fund

Advances in small area population estimation in the absence of national census data

Population data at small area scales are essential for effective decision-making, influencing public health, disaster response, and resource allocation, among others. While national censuses remain the cornerstone of population data, they are often constrained by high costs, infr...

What Has Wellbeing Got to Do With It? Artificial Intelligence, the Hybrid Tipping Zone, and the Crisis of Human Flourishing

Wellbeing economics has spent decades challenging the assumption that income, output, and human flourishing move together automatically. Artificial intelligence brings this familiar economic question into a new setting. AI can raise task-level efficiency, improve access to knowle...