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Poverty, Dietary Imbalance and Sickness among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)
Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005
The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual … 48.95 percent of income) on food articles yielding energy. Some 38.4 percent of these households are below poverty line … in the sample households are below poverty line. The mean energy intake of these households is slightly less than 1600 …
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Nutritional Aspects of Poverty among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)
Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we report our findings as to the extent of poverty among the casual labourers of Shillong, the capital … city of Meghalaya, India. Two views of poverty have been considered; first at the per capita (per month) income level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118863
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Poverty, Dietary Imbalance and Sickness among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)
Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005
The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual … energy. Some 38.4 percent of these households are below poverty line (fixed at Rs. 396 per capita per month). Poorer … households have larger family size. Consequently, some 46.5 percent persons in the sample households are below poverty line. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118876
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Choice of union-firm bargaining agenda and social welfare
Pal, Rupayan - EconWPA - 2005
This paper shows that with a strong labour union, bargaining over piece rate generates higher social welfare than bargaining over fixed wage. Moreover, this social welfare exceeds the social welfare under efficient bargaining level, if the union is very strong.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556923
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Maquiladoras and Standard of Living in Mexico Before and After NAFTA
Huato, Julio - EconWPA - 2005
This study assesses the impact across states of for-export, mostly foreign-owned manufacturing plants (commonly known as 'maquiladoras') on various measures of standard of living in Mexico, namely literacy rate, school attendance rates, housing characteristics, life expectancy, infant mortality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005555993
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Human Development and Electoral Systems
Gassner, Marjorie; Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Verardi, … - EconWPA - 2005
The aim of this paper is to test if electoral systems and human development are linked. Using high quality data and very simple panel data econometric techniques, we show that electoral systems play a critical role in explaining the difference in the levels of human development between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062469
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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
women in positions of political decision making - achieves to transform many aspects of development, but, as other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125619
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Subjective Economic Well-Being in Eastern Europe
Hayo, Bernd; Seifert, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2002
This paper analyses subjective economic well-being in several Eastern European countries from 1991 to 1995. Economic well-being explains a significant part of the variation in overall life satisfaction of Eastern Europeans. In an ordered logit model, the determinants of subjective economic...
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Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003
This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross-sectional data from the OHS97 survey of South Africa, we show that victims report significantly lower well-being than the non-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407734
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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
The article analyses further develops the neo-dependency approach already presented by the same author and looks at recent time series trends in the structure of international capital penetration, international savings, and the dynamics of “unequal transfer” and their effects on social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556011