A REPORT we got from the Hindustan Times via the TNS (Tribune News Service) tells of economists at the University of Oxford having “developed a new and ‘largely accurate’ method to measure global poverty using satellite data that shows places in the world where people have no night-time access to lights.”

“Researchers,” says the report, “analyzed two separate data sets from satellites: the first showed images of all areas of the world that light up at night, and the second estimated population using images of roads, buildings and other signs of human habitation.

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