This important book presents fresh thinking and new results on the measurement of sustainable development. Economic … relevant theory is presented briefly, the chief emphasis is on empirical measurement of the change in real wealth: this measure …

. 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 …

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 …

development and poverty alleviation. The expert contributors trace and compare the emergence of national innovation systems (NIS …

Development Index both captures the context features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of development …

and poverty and also focus on gender issues - often ignored in traditional theory. Many of the issues that arise in … Bangladesh in connection with the agricultural-development nexus are not unique to the country. Parallels exist elsewhere in the … developing world and as such Bangladesh is useful as an example from which to draw conclusions about much of the developing world …

banking and finance alongside conventional banking since the 1980s. The selected countries are Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt …1. Introduction -- 2. Bahrain -- 3. Bangladesh -- 4. Egypt -- 5. Indonesia -- 6. Iran -- 7. Malaysia -- 8. Pakistan …

1. India / S. Mahendra Dev -- 2. Pakistan / Parvez Hasan -- 3. Bangladesh / Wahiduddin Mahmud -- 4. Sri Lanka / Saman …

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 …

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 …