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A Study on Structure of the Economy of Udalguri Sub-Division, Assam (India)
Daimari, Prasen; Mishra, SK - EconWPA - 2005
of labour is near- zero and productivity of land provides only subsistence. Poverty keeps consumption and savings low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407862
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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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Gross National Happiness as an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?
Tella, Rafael Di; MacCulloch, Robert - EconWPA - 2005
The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility function. One possible answer is that human development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561269
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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