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measurement, not only detailing broad issues but also scrutinising specific domains and aspects of poverty, such as health, energy …"Currently, works on poverty constitute only a small part of contemporary economic research; however, the field of … poverty and deprivation is undoubtedly one rising in popularity and relevance. Encompassing chapters that address both …
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. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, and Jacques Silber -- 3. Concepts and measurement of vulnerability to poverty and other …Introduction / Jacques Silber and Guanghua Wan -- 1. An Asian poverty line? issues and options / Stephan Klasen -- 2. A … poverty line contingent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R …
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Measurement in Marketing Research investigates latent variables in marketing, focusing on current paradigms as well as … recently suggested alternative concepts. The book proposes a unified scientific definition of measurement that allows for … testing the hypothesis of the real existence of a latent variable. Thomas Salzberger analyses current measurement approaches …
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well as offering a new approach to the measurement of technical change. The author, a leading expert in innovation … economics and management, critically reviews current schools of thought and presents his own contribution to measurement … foundations of the measurement of technical change and extends the analysis to consider the econometric and empirical perspective …
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The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic …pt. 1. Productivity : definitions and methods of measurement -- pt. 2. Productivity : determinants and strategies …
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Unknowable in Financial Risk Management: Measurement and Theory Advancing Practice, Chapter 1, Princeton, NJ: Princeton … academic research articles one should know in risk measurement and management. Through his central position in financial …, Correlation and Tails for Systemic Risk Measurement," Manuscript, NYU. -- Campbell, J.Y. and G.B. Tacksler (2003), "Equity …
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1. Currents of environmentalism -- 2. Ecological economics : "taking nature into account" -- 3. Indices of (un) sustainability, and neo-Malthusianism -- 4. Political ecology : the study of ecological distribution conflicts -- 5. Mangroves versus shrimps -- 6. The environmentalism of the poor :...
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issues connected with growth theory considered from different theoretical perspectives. Its uniqueness is derived from the … classical tradition, modern theory, and heterodox models; problems of policy; dynamics and business cycles; and the role of … scholars of the theory of economic growth, the theory of distribution, macroeconomics, classical and Keynesian economics, as …
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the growth of cities by the use of endogenous growth theory …
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The question of why citizens pay their taxes has attracted increased attention in the tax compliance literature of late. In this book, Benno Torgler considers the evidence that suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance within society. To attempt to...
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