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High-resolution measures of poverty and vulnerability in Afghanistan: Cost-effective solutions based on mobile phone data

Estimating economic characteristics with phone data

Working paper 7 Aug 2018 State

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Joshua Blumenstock

Assistant Professor, University of California - Berkeley
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