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The EMRI is currently supporting research in four areas: 1) How measurement of retail spending and inflation can be redesigned to make use of item-level transactions data to value technologically ...

This paper presents a novel framework to estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and quarterly economic activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of ...

Since World War II, most countries around the world have come to use gross domestic product, or GDP, as the core metric for prosperity. The GDP measures market output: the monetary value of all the ...

In terms of measuring the recovery, economists are looking most closely at gross domestic product. Given three options to describe the level of attention they paid to GDP, 81 percent of our ...

Tim Miller, Global Adviser on Population and Development, Population Division, DESA and Mun Sim Lai, Population Affairs Officer, Population Division, DESA ...

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Bridges, roads, bike lanes, traffic signals, railroads and interstate highways allow millions of people to travel each year, but they are one of the most expensive investments for governments and ...

Cristina D'Alessandro is currently an officer at the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, mentioned in the article, but in a different field to the one covered in the text: she deals ...

Obesity and excess weight gain, traditionally perceived as health issues predominantly affecting high-income countries, are now increasingly prevalent in low and middle-income regions. Sub-Saharan ...