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Subjective Well-Being Approach to the Valuation of International Development: Evidence for the Millennium Development Goals

Beja Jr., Edsel L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The subjective well-being approach to the valuation of international development is applied to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The rich countries have particular preferences for education, healthcare, and housing; they need compensation for failure to meet the targets by 2015. The poor...

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Social equality and state welfare effort: More income-equality, no more equality in quality of life

Veenhoven, Ruut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

spread in happiness in the nation, also called ‘inequality in happiness’. Inequality in happiness in nations can be measured … artifact of variation in level of happiness and appear quite constant through time. Inequality in happiness appears to be … nations. Contrary to expectation, inequality in happiness appears to be more closely linked to social equality among rich …

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Poverty of the Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam: Situation and Challenges from the Poorest Communes

Pham Thai, Hung; Le Dang, Trung; Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This study examines the poverty of the ethnic minorities in the poorest areas in Vietnam. We find that the ethnic minority now constitute more than a half of the poor population, though they account for around 14.5 percent of the population,. The share of the poor ethnic minorities in the total...

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Ethnic Minorities in Northern Mountains of Vietnam: Poverty, Income and Assets

Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study examines the asset and income pattern of poor ethnic minorities in Northern Mountains of Vietnam using data from a 2010 Northern Mountain Baseline Survey (NMBS) of the Second Northern Mountains Poverty Reduction Project and Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) 2010. The...

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Measuring the Human Development or Deprivation : A Review of (Different Composite Index) Methods

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The present paper reviews the different methods in practice to measure the human development or deprivation, which, in fact, is an emerging part of the development discourse. Specifically it deals with the problems of comparability, aggregation and weighing the dimension/indicators in composite...

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Inclusive Growth and Employment, Poverty, and Inequality : With Reference to SC and STs in India

Chaganti, Ravi; Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The present study is to examine the state of Schedule Caste and Scheduled Tribes (SC/STs) in terms of their socio-economic conditions. About one third of the Indian population belong to SC and ST social category and they have been considered as the most deprivation sections of the society. How...

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An Estimation of CPI Biases in Argentina 1985-2005, and its Implications on Real Income Growth and Income Distribution

Gluzmann, Pablo; Sturzenegger, Federico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We use the shifts in Engel curves estimated from household surveys to estimate CPI biases in Argentina between 1985 and 2005. We find that real earning levels increased during this period between 4.3 and 5.7% faster per year than previously estimated. More surprisingly, relative to conventional...

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Riding for Survival: A Worst Form of Human Trafficking

Safana, Shaheen; Masood, Sarwar; Muhammad, Waqas; Amir, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Trafficking of the humans is a growing concern at international level. Among all the trafficked ones, children who are misused and continuously mistreated claim the special attention. It is, further, a known fact that these poverty stricken children are trafficked from Pakistan to wealthy Gulf...

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Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Tribes (STs) in Andhra Pradesh: A Situation Assessment Analysis

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The paper presents the development status of SC and ST in Andhra Pradesh, their problems and prospects from the inclusive growth and human development perspectives. It presents the prevailing situation in respect of SC/ST and their level of backwardness with respect to parameters such as income,...

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Poverty of Ethnic Minorities in the Poorest Areas of Vietnam

Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper examines the poverty and inequality pattern, income and characteristics of households in the Program 135-II … in the poorest communes was achieved by the income growth. The inequality increased, thereby slightly raising the poverty …

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