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Based on satellite photos of night light from NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, and using the methodology proposed by Henderson, Storeygard and Weil (2012), this paper measures the economic growth of the main 15 beach tourist areas in Mexico for the period from 1993 to 2017. This...
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Nighttime lights data are a measure of economic activity whose measurement error is plausibly independent of the errors … of most conventional indicators. Therefore, we can use nighttime lights as an independent benchmark to assess existing … revisions of the PWT do not necessarily dominate their predecessors in terms of explaining nighttime lights (and thus, of …
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Nighttime lights data are a measure of economic activity whose measurement error is plausibly independent of the errors … of most conventional indicators. Therefore, we can use nighttime lights as an independent benchmark to assess existing … revisions of the PWT do not necessarily dominate their predecessors in terms of explaining nighttime lights (and thus, of …
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Nighttime lights data are a measure of economic activity whose measurement error is plausibly independent of the errors … of most conventional indicators. Therefore, we can use nighttime lights as an independent benchmark to assess existing … revisions of the PWT do not necessarily dominate their predecessors in terms of explaining nighttime lights (and thus, of …
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This paper uses a harmonized dataset of annual nightlight to predict district-level GDP for the 64 districts of … that a simple constant elasticity relationship encapsulates the relationship between nightlights and GDP - with the former … Bangladesh as a whole. However, not all nightlights contribute to GDP, hence we only use nightlight emitted by enterprises …
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GDP figures for Africa are unreliable. More dependable information can be found in government expenditure and … GDP by assuming no increase in output per head outside the tradable sector, for which the purchasing power of per capita … exports is accepted as a proxy. Another approach establishes an econometric association between real per capita GDP and the …
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products (GDP) of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries. Through a regression model we look for a correlation between … for investors who wanted to expand and to grow their businesses. Is there a significant relationship between FDI and GDP …? What is its impact? Does FDI have a direct impact over GDP in CEE countries? …
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In this chapter I discuss historical estimates of GDP at both the national and the regional level, and their … societies, GDP has stronger informative power in those contexts where industry and services, and market exchange, retain the … construct GDP constant price (Laspeyres) indices (the latter issue may be less widely recognized, but it may have a remarkable …
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activity due to a simple redistributive effect of the intervention. The former is more likely when looking at GDP implications …
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activity due to a simple redistributive effect of the intervention. The former is more likely when looking at GDP implications …
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