Bright Lights, Big Cities : Measuring National and Sub-National Economic Growth from Outer Space in Africa, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda
The authors use the night lights (satellite imagery from outer space) approach to estimate subnational 2013 GDP growth and levels for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational GDP is consequential for three reasons: Fi...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/10/25160952/republic-kenya-bright-lights-big-cities-measuring-national-sub-national-economic-growth-outer-space-africa-application-kenya-rwanda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22922 |