Improving human well-being is increasingly recognized as essential for movement toward a
sustainable and desirable future. Estimates of different aspects of human well-being, such …

This paper brings the aid effectiveness debate to the sub-national level. We hypothesize the
non-robust results regarding the effects of aid on development in the previous literature to …

In Bangladesh, cities are conventionally classified based on population size and revenue
collection. This conventional city classification system neglects the spatial characteristics …

Building resilience to disasters has become a strategic goal of many risk reduction programs
across the globe. This is because resilience ensures that communities develop capacities …

We study the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians to state legislative
assemblies in India on the subsequent economic performance of their constituencies. Using …

Evening-hour luminosity observed using satellites is a good proxy for economic activity. The
strengths of measuring economic activity using nightlight measurements include that the …

Urbanization is a fundamental trend of the past two centuries, sha** many dimensions of
the modern world. To guide this phenomenon and support growth of cities that are …

The outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020 heralded a deep global recession not seen since
the Second World War. With entire nations in lockdown, burgeoning economies of countries …

Night-time lights satellite images provide a new opportunity to measure regional inequality
in real-time by develo** the Night Light Development Index (NLDI). The NLDI was …

Due to unavailability of consistent income data at the sub-state or district level in develo**
countries, it is difficult to generate consistent and reliable economic inequality estimates at …