Chapter 4 has a regional focus on Africa and explores whether nighttime lights, calculated from weather satellite recordings, are a useful proxy for human development at the local level. Indicators of household wealth, education and health are constructed from geo-coded Demographic and Health...

This book contributes to the empirical literature on economic and human development from five different perspectives: the first chapter provides a new statistical test for bimodality of densities with an application to income data. The second chapter analyzes the worlds cross-country...

In contrast to UNDP’s wildly successful Human Development Index (HDI), UNDP’s gender-related indices have had a rather rocky history. To this day, the Human Development Report Office (HDRO) has not produced a measure that has met the requirements of policy-makers, academics and development...

"... provides guidance to national statistical offices on producing statistics for SDGs. It lays out what needs to be done, who is to do what and when, who are the stakeholders, and what are the opportunities for cooperation. The Road Map deals with establishing national indicators, providing...

Bangladesh moving out of the LDC group : looking through the issues / Debapriya Bhattacharya and Sarah Sabin Khan -- The LDC paradigm, graduation and Bangladesh : concepts, comparison and policy / Debapriya Bhattacharya and Sarah Sabin Khan -- Structural transformation of Bangladesh economy :...

The development of metropolitan areas is a natural process of urban expansion, achieved through exurbanisation and suburbanisation, whereby urban functions extend into the rural periurban environment. The expansion of the concept of the urban metropolitan area to second tier urban areas...

In low- and middle-income countries (LIMCs) measuring early childhood development (ECD) with standard tests in large scale surveys (i.e. evaluations of interventions) is difficult and expensive. Multi-dimensional screeners and single-domain tests ('short tests') are frequently used as...

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 measures of economic activity (Pinkovskiy and...

Under the theme "Connecting Africa's Resources through Digital Transformation", the 26th World Economic Forum on Africa convened regional and global leaders to discuss digital economy catalysts to drive radical structural transformation, and strengthening public-private collaboration on global...

"After the introduction of the fast track land reform programme in 2000, Zimbabwe has undergone major economic and political shifts and these have had a profound impact on both urban and rural livelihoods. This book provides rich empirical studies that examine a range of multi-faceted and...