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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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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
With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407684
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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
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Happiness in Eastern Europe
Hayo, Bernd - EconWPA - 2004
This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in seven Eastern European transition countries during the early phase of economic transition. The analysis of representative survey data in an ordered logit model shows that those core socio-demographic and economic variables known to be relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560958
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Perception of Income Satisfaction: An Analysis of Slovenian Households
Stanovnik, Tine; Verbic, Miroslav - EconWPA - 2004
Three comparable cross-section household datasets, relating to 1988, 1993 and 1997-1999 are used to analyse income satisfaction in Slovenian households. The ordered probit model is used to estimate the effects of ‘objective’ variables, such as actual disposable household income and household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561525
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CAPITAL SOCIAL Y CALIDAD DE VIDA
Vivas, Alejandro; Acevedo, Alberto Alvarado - EconWPA - 2004
La formación de Capital social es un factor clave para el desarrollo de programas y proyectos dirigidos a la superación de la pobreza. La investigación hace explícitos los factores asociados a la generación de capital social en un proyecto de desarrollo llevado a cabo en un barrio pobre de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134598