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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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relevant theory is presented briefly, the chief emphasis is on empirical measurement of the change in real wealth: this measure …This important book presents fresh thinking and new results on the measurement of sustainable development. Economic … theory suggests that there should be a link between future wellbeing and current wealth. This book explores this linkage …
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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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development and poverty alleviation. The expert contributors trace and compare the emergence of national innovation systems (NIS …
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