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The Specific Allocation Fund (DAK) : Mechanism and Uses
Usman, Syaikhu; Mawardi, M. Sulton; Poesoro, Adri; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This study aims to analyze the management of the Specific Allocation Fund (DAK). The three largest DAK-recipient sectors are the focus of the study : education, health, and roads infrastructure. The study sample areas are four districts. This paper was compiled based on the results of in-depth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363884
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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481840
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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650207
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Canada 2030: An Agenda for Sustainable Development
Kindornay, Shannon; Standards, Centre for the Study of … - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2015
As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their end date in 2015, negotiations are ramping up at the United Nations for the establishment of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs, to be announced in September this year, will replace the MDGs and serve as a universal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185571
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Convergence and Inequality : the case of Western Balkan countries.
OUARDIGHI, JALAL EL; KAPETANOVIC, RABIJA SOMUN- - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2007
This paper analyses the convergence process of inequality in income among five Balkan countries in the 1989-2005 period … approach is to consider the convergence of country contributions to the international income inequality. The model allows … simultaneously to test the convergence process of income and inequality. The results indicate a real convergence process between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005422865
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Convergence Across Provincial Economies in Canada: Trends, Drivers, and Implications
Capeluck, Evan - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014
, well-being and fiscal capacity, and to analyze trends toward or away from convergence for these economic variables. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165240
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Health Effects of Job Insecurity among Employees in Swiss General Population
DOMENIGHETTI, Gianfranco; D'AVANZO, Barbara; BISIG, Brigitte - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 1999
Objectives. To investigate at national level the association between health and the social distress in which the whole employed population is plunged as a consequence of job insecurity. Design. Cross-sectional study. Setting. Switzerland. Subjects. Individuals working full or part time as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650149
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Health Effects of Stress and Insecurity among Employees in the Banking Sector - Comparison with Employees in other Sectors
Domenighetti, Gianfranco; Quaglia, Jacqueline; … - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2004
This study measures, on a representative sample of employees in the banking sector (N=428), the prevalence of 18 work condition factors which may have an influence on the levels of stress and insecurity. The analysis then points out the relationship between these two latter factors and 16 health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518810
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From Access to Income : Regional and Ethnic Inequality in Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Widyanti, Wenefrida; Suryahadi, Asep; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This study investigates regional and ethnic inequality in Indonesia from five dimensions : access to education and health facilities, education outcome, health outcome, voice, as well as income and consumption. We believe this is the first comprehensive study that looks at ethnic inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363649
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How Low-Carbon Green Growth Can Reduce Inequalities
Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam; Bauer, Armin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
Half of the world’s population—3 billion people—lives below the poverty line, and Asia has the largest share. In pursuit of sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation, there is great potential among low-income households for green consumption, production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278123