Due to these constraints, the use of alternative instruments to estimate the short-term economic impacts of COVID-19 in a country like India is worth exploring. This study uses nighttime images of lights on the surface of Earth, i.e., nightlight (NTL), taken by satellites to estimate the...
The model shows that the transition is best described in terms of a development cycle involving child mortality, fertility and GDP per capita. Fertility rate decreases when child mortality is low, and is weakly dependent on GDP. As fertility rates fall, GDP increases, and as GDP increases, ...
Indigenous knowledge plays a pivotal socioeconomic development role in indigenous communities. In Kenya, one of the economic sectors where indigenous knowledge can be applied is tourism which is among the country's major income earners besides tea and horticulture. This study investigated the potential...
A human-machine collaborative approach measures economic development using satellite imagery A human-AI collaborative computer vision algorithm produces grid-level economic statistics using satellite images and lightweight human annotation, revealing granular development patterns in North Korea and five other ...
Despite the well-known importance of high-quality care before and after delivery, not every mother and newborn in India receive appropriate antenatal and postnatal care (ANC/PNC). Using India’s National Family Health Surveys (2015–2016 and 2019–2021), we quantified the socioeconomic and geogr...
The fruits of the development are pocketed by strong and riches. It has lead to the widening of developmental gaps between haves and have-nots. In the light of this, the concept of convergence has gained more importance in recent times. But the convergence theorem postulates that when the ...
In India, breast and cervical cancers account for two-fifths of all cancers and are predominantly prevalent among women in the reproductive age group. The Government of India recommended screening of breast and cervical cancer among women aged 30 years and over. This study examines the socio-econ...
In other words, it measures the economic distance between the core (the most active) and the periphery (the least active). We argue that the greater the distance between the core and the periphery in terms of economic development (as measured by nightlight), the greater is the dependence of...
In India, the top 5% of the population has over 10 times higher Monthly Per Capita Expenditure (MPCE) than the bottom 5% of urban population. This was recently revealed by a Statistics Ministry survey on consumption. It also showed that, in terms of MPCE, Sikkim leads all States and Union...
On the other hand, this study aims to contribute to the literature in terms of the methodology adopted. In particular, the novelty of this paper is the combination of traditional time-series analyses together with the development of ML techniques....