Nighttime lights revisited : the use of nighttime lights data as a proxy for economic variables
2015 - wb_25467938
Benjamin P. Stewart
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Unique user defined ID
wb_25467938
Title
Nighttime lights revisited : the use of nighttime lights data as a proxy for economic variables
Date published
2015/11/16
Resource type
working-paper
Reference country
| Country name |
|---|
| World |
Type
World Bank Library
ID number
090224b083340d32
Language
| Name | Code |
|---|---|
| English | EN |
Series
Series name
Publications & Research / working-paper / Policy Research working paper,no. WPS 7496
Authoring information
Authors
| First name | Last name |
|---|---|
| Benjamin P. | Stewart |
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Themes and topics
Topics
| Unique Identifier | Topic | Vocabulary |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1 | Macroeconomics and Economic Growth | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Topic 2 | Health | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Topic 3 | Nutrition and Population | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Topic 4 | Industry | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Subtopic 5 | Construction Industry | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Subtopic 6 | Common Carriers Industry | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Subtopic 7 | Food & Beverage Industry | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Subtopic 8 | General Manufacturing | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Subtopic 9 | Pulp & Paper Industry | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Subtopic 10 | Plastics & Rubber Industry | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Subtopic 11 | Energy Policies & Economics | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Subtopic 12 | Food Security | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Subtopic 13 | Energy Demand | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Subtopic 14 | Energy and Environment | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Subtopic 15 | Energy and Mining | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
| Subtopic 16 | Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies | World Bank, Documents and Reports |
LDA topics
LDA model
| Author | Model Identifier | Number of topics | Description | Corpus name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DECDG | WB_LDA_ALL_40 | 40 | Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) | WB Docs |
LDA topics
Topic
Score (%)
Top words
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56%
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effect,
model,
table,
estimate,
level,
variable,
analysis
Topic 21
11%
percent,
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debt,
rate,
year,
increase,
price,
export,
high
Topic 34
10%
country,
economic,
policy,
growth,
development,
region,
market,
world_bank,
world
Topic 15
6%
power,
electricity,
cost,
energy,
generation,
distribution,
supply,
tariff,
transmission
Topic 40
5%
water,
project,
river,
construction,
area,
environmental,
dam,
impact,
county
Topic 20
4%
water,
urban,
city,
supply,
service,
sanitation,
area,
municipal,
municipality
Topic 5
3%
risk,
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disaster,
flood,
impact,
loss,
adaptation,
damage
Topic 8
2%
forest,
area,
land,
management,
conservation,
resource,
forestry,
protect,
biodiversity
Topic 32
2%
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construction,
environmental,
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area,
contractor,
work,
material
Topic 38
2%
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bio_gas,
emission,
oil,
fuel,
total,
cost,
coal,
carbon
Topic 22
1%
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firm,
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business,
private,
access,
technology,
market,
percent
Topic 35
1%
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government,
year,
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sector,
development,
increase,
total,
plan
Topic 37
1%
agricultural,
agriculture,
farmer,
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rural,
food,
production,
extension,
livestock
Topic 17
1%
transport,
port,
traffic,
cost,
railway,
service,
vehicle,
bus,
rail
Topic 26
1%
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construction,
project,
work,
highway,
traffic,
transport,
rehabilitation
Topic 28
1%
program,
community,
development,
support,
local,
level,
activity,
national,
government
Topic 6
1%
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people,
work,
group,
time,
problem,
state,
case,
good
Topic 19
1%
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irrigation,
crop,
production,
farm,
farmer,
land,
year,
agricultural
Topic 33
1%
business,
economy,
tax,
time,
procedure,
cost,
day,
property,
indicator
Topic 9
1%
post,
plan,
open,
request,
implementation,
actual,
national,
envelope,
single_stage
Topic 30
1%
household,
woman,
poverty,
percent,
poor,
income,
labor,
employment,
age
Topic 36
1%
project,
cost,
total,
year,
million,
staff,
equipment,
program,
training
Topic 4
1%
land,
resettlement,
compensation,
project,
affect,
area,
household,
people,
district
Topic 11
1%
law,
company,
regulation,
state,
require,
legal,
provide,
information,
issue
Topic 7
1%
health,
service,
child,
population,
facility,
hospital,
aid,
nutrition,
care
Topic 10
1%
sector,
government,
reform,
public,
policy,
program,
support,
improve,
development
Topic 39
1%
project,
management,
procurement,
implementation,
financial,
include,
report,
activity,
support
Topic 1
1%
project,
implementation,
bank,
component,
objective,
performance,
million,
satisfactory,
indicator
Metadata production
Document title
Nighttime lights revisited : the use of nighttime lights data as a proxy for economic variables
Unique ID number for the document
wb_25467938
Producers
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development Economics Data Group | DECDG | World Bank | Generate metadata |