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Concerns about the quality of China's official GDP statistics have been a perennial question in understanding its economic dynamics. We use data on satellite-recorded nighttime lights as an independent benchmark for comparing various published indicators of the state of the Chinese economy....
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Concerns about the quality of China's official GDP statistics have been a perennial question in understanding its economic dynamics. We use data on satellite-recorded nighttime lights as an independent benchmark for comparing various published indicators of the state of the Chinese economy....
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complementary approach to traditional poverty measurement that ensures comparability: we use nighttime light as a proxy for poverty … measurement. We measure the percentage of populated areas in China with no nighttime light, and the percentage of the population …
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used as a proxy for measuring sub-regional economic growth. We also briefly discuss two theoretical models that shed light … on the geospatial patterns reflected by the night light data. The results are presented with a series of maps, charts and …
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