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The growing availability of free or inexpensive satellite imagery has inspired many researchers to investigate the use of earth observation data for monitoring economic activity around the world. One of the most popular earth observation data sets is the so-called nighttime lights from the...
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This paper uses the night lights (satellite imagery from outer space) approach to estimate growth in and levels of subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic product is consequential for three reasons. First,...
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Although efforts at soil and water conservation are routinely viewed as instrumental in reducing vulnerability to climate change, their impact has rarely been quantified. Combining data on the timing and intensity of soil and water conservation interventions in select Ethiopian watersheds from...
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The technical complexity of ensuring that tax rolls are complete and valuations current is often perceived as a major barrier to bringing in more property tax revenues in developing countries. This paper shows how high-resolution satellite imagery makes it possible to assess the completeness of...
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This paper argues for night-lights data as an alternative data source for measuring spatial inequalities in Africa, where the paucity of subnational income data is persistent. The analysis compares the statistical relationships between income and lights-based measures of spatial income...
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Tourism is an engine for jobs, exports, and investments. The tourism sector is also the largest, global, market …-based contributor to financing protected area systems. Nature-based tourism (NBT) is a sub-component of the tourism sector that includes … wildlife-based tourism. NBT is a powerful tool countries can leverage to grow and diversify their economies while protecting …
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Tourism is growing faster than ever before in emerging and developing economies. In just 10 years, the tourism …/or marketing of a destination or a tourism business, with a focus on the leisure-travel market …
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Technology and digital platforms are disrupting the way the tourism sector operates from end to end affects low …-income markets striving to leverage tourism for development impacts. Digital platforms, in particular, provide both opportunities and … challenges for World Bank Group client countries looking to harness tourism to help achieve the World Bank Group's twin goals of …
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Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Tourism (MITT), conducted a study of the sourcing of imported and local fresh produce by Fiji … the tourism and agriculture sectors, and to identify opportunities to improve these linkages. This report covers Fiji …'s main tourism areas of Nadi, Lautoka, the Mamanuca and Yasawa Islands, Denarau, and the Coral Coast that are home to 74 …
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demand for tourism products delivered by and based in local communities in Africa. If demand is better understood, supply can …
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