Measuring economic growth from outer space | vox – Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists: “GDP data is often poorly measured, especially for sub-Saharan Africa. This column shows that satellite data on lights at night can be used to enhance the quality of GDP growth measures. Using rainfall and satellite data, it also [...]
A vegetable garden at the White House
Broadway, 9 am, March 15. Drivers and passers-by notice a gloomy statement on a big electronic screen used for roadwork warnings: “New York is dying”. No one still knows if it was some weird marketing campaign or just the action of a computer freak that hacked the screen to send a scary message to an [...]
