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A Dynamic Analysis of Human Welfare in a Warming Planet
Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2008
Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have caused atmospheric concentrations with no precedents in the last half a million years, inducing serious uncertainties about future climates and their effects on human welfare. Recent climate science supports the view that the climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547230
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Education, Inequality and Violent Crime in Minas Gerais
Puech, Frédéric - EconWPA - 2005
This paper presents an economic model of individual crime decision relying on relative deprivation and discusses the role of education. It distinguishes between property and interpersonal crime and proposes an econometric estimation of the model for 723 municipalities of Minas Gerais, one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134619
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A STUDY ABOUT POVERTY, HEALTH, EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEPRIVATION IN INDIA
sivakumarmarimuthu; sarvalingam - EconWPA - 2004
This paper deals with poverty, health, education and human deprivation among Indian States. Human development evaluates … poverty, health, education lead the poor to indulge in the vicious circle. Uplifting the poor from these deprivations is … imperative for overall development. This paper proposes a new formula to analyse human deprivation by the help of poverty line …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413022