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Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite index obtained by a weighted aggregation of other three indices, each measuring one aspect, namely life expectancy, education and real per capita income. Intra-country equality in income distribution, however, is very important with regard to quality...
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This paper constructs composite indices of globalization of 131 countries spread over the five continents and … Institute of Technology, Zurich is the source of data used in this study. The Composite Indices of Globalization have been … indices, the paper investigates into the trends of globalization and disparities in globalization for a period of 11 years …
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India brought about by liberalization and globalization of the economy. Structural changes in terms of employment of labour … substitution of capital for labour in almost all states. In the pre-globalization period the industries experienced increasing … returns to scale. Globalization has given way to diminishing returns to scale. Along with a rise in industrial output …
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globalization of 131 countries for eleven years, 1999-2009. We compare the different indices of globalization among themselves and … also with the Dreher-KOF index of globalization and find that among the different indices the Dreher-Chebyshev index is the … most representative one. Among the countries, we concentrate on the trends in globalization of India and her neighboring …
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sector of India and purport to examine if, in the wake of globalization, there have been substantial changes in their …
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data by the least squares principle. Estimation has been done by the Particle Swarm (PS) methods of global optimization …
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small or large errors. The absolute deviation estimation of parameters is more suitable in such cases. This paper has made … an attempt to estimation of parameters of Sato’s two-level CES production function by minimizing the sum of absolute …
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Programs that work very well in optimizing convex functions very often perform poorly when the problem has multiple local minima or maxima. They are often caught or trapped in the local minima/maxima. Several methods have been developed to escape from being caught in such local optima. The...
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