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  • Geographies of Inequalities

Using Facebook Advertising Data to Describe the Socio-Economic Situation of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

While the fighting in the Syrian civil war has mostly stopped, an estimated 5.6 million Syrians remain living in neighboring countries.Of these, an estimated 1.5 million are sheltering in Lebanon. Ongoing efforts by organizations such as UNHCR to support the...

  • Geographies of Inequalities

Big Data for Good. Can Big Data Illustrate the Challenges Facing Syrian Refugees in Lebanon?

Timely evidence for policymaking has been a consistent objective for UN organizations and member states. The classical data sources needed for official statistics have been expensive, time consuming, leading to delayed outcomes, and in certain cases impossible to access (e.g....