Abstract
ABSTRACT Morocco has integrated the human development paradigm into their country-wide planning goals. The 2004 Moroccan census measured HDI for every commune in Morocco, the smallest spatial unit for which data are available. However, when the 2014 Moroccan census was released HDI values were omitted . To measure the change in HDI over the 10-year period, this article uses spatial econometric models along with the RandomForest algorithm in order to make out-of-sample predictions for 2014 HDI scores at the Moroccan commune level. The article concludes that in certain situations RandomForest can outperform spatial econometric models, and discusses the benefits this approach.
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