Illuminating Economic Growth /

This paper seeks to illuminate the uncertainty in official GDP per capita measures using auxiliary data. Using satellite-recorded nighttime lights as an additional measurement of true GDP per capita, we provide a statistical framework, in which the error in official GDP per capita may depend on the...

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Yazar: Hu, Yingyao
Diğer Yazarlar: Yao, Jiaxiong
Materyal Türü: Dergi
Dil:English
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Seri Bilgileri:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/077
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