Estimating Lcal Poverty Measures Using Satellite Images : A Pilot Application to Central America

Estimating Lcal Poverty Measures Using Satellite Images : A Pilot Application to Central America

Several studies have used satellite measures of human activity to complement measures of economic production. This paper builds on those studies by considering satellite measures for improving poverty measures. The paper uses local-scale census and...

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Main Authors: Klemens, Ben, Coppola, Andrea, Shron, Max
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:
DISCUSSION
PREDICTIONS
PRESENTATIONS
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
POVERTY LINE
CALIBRATION
ECONOMIC GROWTH
LANGUAGES
HAZARDS
ERRORS
DATA CENTER
INCOME
POVERTY ESTIMATES
POVERTY RATES
SATELLITES
RURAL FEMALE LITERACY
INFORMATION
HEALTH INSURANCE
HOUSING
IMAGE
CAPACITY BUILDING
VARIABLES
GLOBAL POVERTY
RURAL POPULATION
SCRIPTING LANGUAGES
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
LANGUAGE
MEASURES
POVERTY MEASURES
EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE
OPEN ACCESS
SATELLITE
LITERACY
KNOWLEDGE
HARDWARE
COMMUNICATIONS
PIXEL
INSTITUTIONS
LITERACY RATE
DATA
DATUM
NUMBERS
LINEAR MODELS
PRODUCTIVITY
CASES
WEB
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
INDICATORS
PIXELS
RESEARCH
STANDARDS
DATABASES
LIBRARY
LIBRARIES
READING
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
PDF
POVERTY DATA
EXTRACTING
RESULTS
RURAL FEMALE
ELECTRICITY
RAW DATA
MARKUP LANGUAGE
INDEX
TEXT
RURAL POVERTY
LITERATURE
CORRELATION
RURAL
URL
MEASUREMENT
COUNTING
IMAGES
SURVEYS
CASE
FEMALE LITERACY
ADMINISTRATION
INSURANCE
POVERTY INDICATORS
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
ICT
LICENSES
EXTREME POVERTY
STATISTICS
POVERTY
RURAL AREAS
MARKING
INSTITUTION
INFRARED
POOR
PREDICTION
RURAL CONTEXTS
RURAL LITERACY
USES
USER
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/06/24687045/estimating-local-poverty-measures-using-satellite-images-pilot-application-central-america
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22210

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