Nighttime Lights as a Proxy for Human Development at the Local Level

Bruederle, Anna; Hodler, Roland

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3013006

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“…According to Michalopoulos and Papaioannou (2018), 'it is clear that luminosity can be a powerful proxy of economic activity for regional analyses in war-prone countries [...] these are precisely the regions where understanding the causes of underdevelopment is likely to be of greater value'. Furthermore, in many African countries, these data were matched with surveys (in particular with Demographic and Health Surveys), and the authors verified the significant and high regional correlation between brightness and survey-based measures of household well-being (Bruederle & Hodler, 2017;Michalopoulos & Papaioannou, 2013, 2018Weidmann & Schutte, 2017).…”

Section: Baseline Regressionmentioning

confidence: 81%

Beyond the income effect of international trade on ethnic wars in Africa

Candau

Gbandi

Guepie

2021

Econ of Transit and Inst Chang

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We use detailed information on the location of agricultural and mining production to approximate international trade for dierent ethnic groups in order to study its impact on ethnic conicts in Africa between 1993 and 2010. The goal is to go beyond the income eects of trade to study the residual eects of globalization on conicts. We nd that once we control for income but also for a wide variety of dierent factors in conicts (using political variables and xed eects), the international trade by ethnic groups has a pacic impact on conicts. While this peaceful impact of trade is mainly found in the trade in agricultural products, it does not have a signicant impact in the international trade in mining products. Finally, we propose an original two-step analysis showing that exports signicantly reduce conicts by aecting time-varying national characteristics. We interpret this result as an indication that globalization in Africa has participated in the formation of new national identities with peaceful eects between ethnic groups.

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Section: Baseline Regressionmentioning

confidence: 81%

Beyond the income effect of international trade on ethnic wars in Africa

Candau

Gbandi

Guepie

2021

Econ of Transit and Inst Chang

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“…is the upper threshold for settlement distribution; (2) areas with intensive depopulation have the lowest light intensity; (3) seasonal migrations, temporary settling and occasional use of residential and economic facilities are particularly observed in tourist and weekend settlements in the winter-summer season [8]; (4) with increasing altitude the number of high-density settlements decreases. Composite indicators (Table 4) pointed out: (1) approximately 40.5% of settlements in Serbia have unfavorable traffic infrastructure, which contributes to their isolation and depopulation; (2) poor accessibility occurs in one-third of all settlements in Serbia (32.1%), usually in mountainous and border areas; (3) reduced activity or absence of population is detect through conversions of cultivated land towards transitional categories of mixed, grassland and forest.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Social phenomena, processes and events, such as the depopulation process, are complex, changeable, diverse, dynamic and multidimensional [1], so approaches and methods for their identification and monitoring, are exceptionally important. Some methods could be recognized as traditional, based on statistical data, on the other hand, there are other modern and innovative approaches [2,3,4]. First group is sometimes characterized as insufficiently precise, while the second characterized as more precise.…”

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confidence: 99%

How to Catch Depopulation in Serbia? Alternative Approach for Detection and Monitoring

Panić¹,

Drobnjaković²,

Stanojević³

et al. 2022

Proceedings 2022

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Depopulation has been a process present in Serbia for decades, with constant progress and spatial expansion. Although depopulation is more common for rural areas, nowadays the population declining is affecting urban areas, as well. This paper is focused on the new possibilities and innovative approaches for detection and monitoring of population dynamics and economic activities, their spatial and temporal patterns and changes in Serbia. Therefore, a set of 12 indicators is created, classified into four groups: demographic indicators, (urban)morphological, (geo)spatial, and composite indicators, based on various datasets. In addition to traditional datasets, which are used to express population quantitative changes, the data relies on alternative sources that were incorporated too, such as satellite images of nighttime lights, digital terrain model, GHS Population Grid datasets, etc. This research is conducted at the municipal level and regarding the deeper insight into studied phenomenon, it has been extended to the settlement level for the territory of Serbia. Data preparation and calculation of indicators were performed in the GIS environment. The chosen approach highlighted the opportunities and advantages of different datasets crossover, which allowed greater precision and applicability of the obtained results and accurate detection of potentially demographically "empty", depopulated areas in Serbia.

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“…Night time lights data are commonly used in the estimation of local human development and economic activity (e.g. Bruederle and Hodler, 2018;Bundervoet, Maiyo, and Sanghi, 2015;Ghosh et al, 2010;Henderson, Storeygard, and Weil, 2012;Kummu, Taka, and Guillaume, 2018). We use the radiance calibrated data for 2010 from the F16 satellite to quantify the correlation between agricultural GDP and night time lights by geographic regions of the world defined by the World Bank.…”

Section: Night Time Lightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Estimating Local Agricultural GDP across the World

Blankespoor¹,

Ru²,

Wood‐Sichra³

et al. 2022

Policy Research Working Papers

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Nighttime Lights as a Proxy for Human Development at the Local Level

Cited by 20 publications

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Beyond the income effect of international trade on ethnic wars in Africa

Beyond the income effect of international trade on ethnic wars in Africa

How to Catch Depopulation in Serbia? Alternative Approach for Detection and Monitoring

Estimating Local Agricultural GDP across the World

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