Coastal Erosion in West Africa
Communities around the world are experiencing coastal erosion. On the one hand, this is a natural phenomenon: storms slam into coasts, blow sand from the beach out to sea and cause catastrophic damages to the environment and infrastructure; even everyday tides crashing continuously into rocky shores, break rock apart and wear cliffs down with a […]
Data and Power in Developing Countries
We live in a world of rapidly development. Advanced technology offers many benefits, such as streamlining healthcare and making information and education more widely available – both of which are key to transforming low-income countries. But have you ever considered the cost our world is paying to modernize? Powering Data It takes a lot of […]
What is Multidimensional Poverty?
Multidimensional poverty is experiencing a lack of many basic essentials that we take for granted. Understanding it is therefore about exploring the facets of deprivation. Deprivation The most common factor indicating poverty has traditionally been the lack of money. Today, the international poverty line is $2.15 per person per day – that’s less than $800 […]