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Poverty and Inequality in Rural Assam An Indicative Study of Seven Villages in Udalguri Subdivision, Assam (India)
Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005
the Udalguri subdivision, Assam (india). It indicates that at least 35.85 percent of the population (and 33.52 percent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407795
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A Study on Structure of the Economy of Udalguri Sub-Division, Assam (India)
Daimari, Prasen; Mishra, SK - EconWPA - 2005
In this study we make an attempt to visualize the structure of the economy of Udalguri Subdivision of Assam, India. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407862
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Poverty, Inequality and Permeability to Globalization Effects : A Study of Select Villages in Udalguri Subdivision of Assam
Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005
reality that makes the rural areas of India impermeable to the effects of globalization. To exploit the possibilities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119015
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A Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling Device
Tella, Rafael Di; Weinschelbaum, Federico - EconWPA - 2005
corruption and that the political class will exhibit lower variance in consumption than the population. In settings were formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125887
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Key emerging and conceptual issues in the development of the rural non-farm economy in developing countries and transition economies
Davis, Junior; Bezemer, Dirk - EconWPA - 2005
reduction in rural areas. This paper reviews contemporary empirical and conceptual thinking on the economics of diversity, non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556006
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The rural non-farm economy and poverty alleviation in Armenia, Georgia and Romania: A synthesis of findings.
Davis, Junior; Bezemer, Dirk; Janowski, Monica; … - EconWPA - 2005
participate in non-farm rural enterprise and employment opportunities. We place emphasis on the diversity and diversification of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556073
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Diversity and Forensics: Diversity in Hiring is Not Enough
Koppl, Roger - EconWPA - 2005
The current organization of forensic work may induce biases in forensic analysis (Risinger et al. 2002). Such biases may have a differential impact across groups, creating differential bias. We should reorganize forensic work to reduce differential bias. The obvious strategy of hiring ethnically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556815
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INCOME CONVERGENCE DURING THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY 1919-39
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two World Wars led to income divergence between the countries. This is in keeping with the view that economic integration leads to income convergence. The paper shows that the view that the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076560
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The evolution of income inequality in the European Union
Alvarez-Garcia, Santiago; Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan; … - EconWPA - 2003
The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to … whether the inequality of income has diminished within and between countries over time. Gini's generalised family indices … the results obtained to different degrees of inequality aversion and to different equivalence scales, taking into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076592
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Household Wealth, Public Consumption, and Economic Well-Being in the United States
Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit; Caner, Asena - EconWPA - 2003
Standard official measures of economic well-being are based on money income. The general consensus is that such measures are seriously flawed because they ignore several crucial determinants of well-being. We examine two such determinants-household wealth and public consumption-in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076601