dc.contributor.author	Roberts, Mark
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-11T17:43:17Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-11T17:43:17Z
dc.date.issued	2021-02
dc.description.abstract	Over the past decade, nighttime lights have become a widely used proxy for measuring economic activity. This paper examines the potential for high frequency nighttime lights data to provide “near real-time” tracking of the economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis in Morocco. At the national level, there exists a strong correlation between quarterly movements in Morocco’s overall nighttime light intensity and movements in its real GDP. This finding supports the use of lights data to track the economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis at higher temporal frequencies and at the subnational level, for which GDP data are unavailable. Consistent with large economic impacts of the crisis, Morocco experienced a large drop in the overall intensity of its lights in March 2020, from which it has subsequently struggled to recover, following the country’s first COVID-19 case and the introduction of strict lockdown measures. At the subnational level, while all regions shared in March’s national decline in nighttime light intensity, Rabat – Salé – Kénitra, Tanger – Tetouan – Al Hoceima, and Fès – Meknès suffered much larger declines than others. Since then, the relative effects of the COVID-19 shock across regions have largely persisted. Overall, the results suggest that, at least for Morocco, changes in nighttime lights can help to detect the timing of changes in the direction of real GDP, but caution is needed in using lights data to derive precise quantitative estimates of changes in real GDP.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/948831612451586556/Tracking-Economic-Activity-in-Response-to-the-COVID-19-Crisis-Using-Nighttime-Lights-The-Case-of-Morocco
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/35130
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9538
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	NIGHTTIME LIGHT INTENSITY
dc.subject	CORONAVIRUS
dc.subject	COVID-19
dc.subject	ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
dc.subject	REAL-TIME MONITORING
dc.title	Tracking Economic Activity in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis Using Nighttime Lights	en
dc.title.subtitle	The Case of Morocco	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2021-02-04
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/948831612451586556/Tracking-Economic-Activity-in-Response-to-the-COVID-19-Crisis-Using-Nighttime-Lights-The-Case-of-Morocco
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-9538
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	090224b08826f62c_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	32807286
okr.identifier.report	WPS9538
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okr.region.administrative	Middle East and North Africa
okr.region.country	Morocco
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okr.topic	Conflict and Development::Disaster Management
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Disease Control & Prevention
okr.topic	Industry::Industrial Economics
okr.topic	Urban Development::Hazard Risk Management
okr.unit	Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice
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