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Conundrums in public distribution system in India: an assessment by states and social groups
Goli, Srinivas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Growing number of studies accentuated enigmas in PDS system, many of them provided evidences based on National Sample Survey (NSS) and other official statistics, more particularly by major states. Many of them also highlighted theoretical and operational difficulties in existing policy...
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Aspecte privind importanta resurselor umane pentru cresterea economica
Duda-Daianu, Dana Codruta; Izvercianu, Monica; Staicu, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This article tried to emphasize some aspects concerning the relation between economical increasing and investments in human resources. We proposed to study the correlation between economic performance and the application’s level of human resources management. The research was made on a number...
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Sustainability and human development: a proposal for a sustainability adjusted HDI (SHDI)
Pineda, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
planetary boundary. There are 17 countries that lost at least one position in their HDI ranking after adjusting for …This paper proposes a sustainability-adjusted HDI in which country’s achievements in human development are penalized … sustainability. Between these countries, however, the countries that experience the largest drop in ranking were 37 positions for the …
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How democracy resolves conflict in difficult games
Brams, Steven J.; Kilgour, D. Marc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Democracy resolves conflicts in difficult games like Prisoners’ Dilemma and Chicken by stabilizing their cooperative outcomes. It does so by transforming these games into games in which voters are presented with a choice between a cooperative outcome and a Pareto-inferior noncooperative...
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La sociedad civil, el bienestar social y las transformaciones del Estado en Costa Rica
Reuben Soto, Sergio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Several theoretical and methodological perspectives have been used to understand the trans-formations occurred during the last 20 years in the Costa Rican State. This work aims to de-fine a coherent approach of such transformations in order to understand them and be able to offer possible...
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Cooperatives and Area Yield Insurance:A Theoretical Analysis
Pincheira, Pablo; Zeuli, Kimberly - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to theoretically investigate the potential benefits that arise from a cooperative selling a government subsidized area-yield contract (i.e., the Group Risk Plan). The indeminities in area-yield contracts are triggered by a geographically determined yield (e.g., a...
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NGOs’ role in improving social forestry practice:does it help to increase livelihood, sustainability and optimum land use in Bangladesh?
Safa, Mohammad Samaun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
At present, encroachment rate is too high and increasing alarmingly that causes environmental degradation as well as low forest cover and productivity in Bangladesh. Rural poverty accelerates the encroachment in meeting the demand of dwelling place and forest products. The natural encroached and...
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Subjection of African women: The effects on economic development
Ifediora, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The abysmal economic performance by African States in the past three decades is attributable to a host of known factors – mismanagement of resources, graft, and bureaucratic corruption (Mauro, 1995); but of all the known culprits that have so far suppressed economic growth, none are more...
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Focusing on the Focusing Illusion...
Beja, Edsel Jr. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper presents evidence that validate the focusing illusion. Specifically, the forecasted impact of a basketball championship on students’ subjective well-being was exaggerated because of their intense focus on the event. However, the self-reported states of being for life domains not...
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Air Quality Degradation: Can Economics Help in Measuring its Welfare Effects? A Review of Economic Valuation Studies
Koundouri, Phoebe; Kougea, Eva - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Air quality affects human’s well being in various ways. Air providing the most important life-support function sustains human health and enables the existence of all ecosystems. Although clean air is considered to be a basic requirement for human health and well-being, economic development and...
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