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The Impact of Parental Death on Child Well-being: Evidence from the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Gas, Ava Gail; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Suriastini, Wayan; … - eSocialSciences - 2013
Identifying the impact of parental death on the well-being of children is complicated because parental death is likely to be correlated with other, unobserved, factors that affect child well-being. Population-representative longitudinal data collected in Aceh, Indonesia, before and after the...
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Three Blind Men and an Elephant: The Case of Energy Indices to Measure Energy Security and Sustainability
Narula, Kapil; Reddy, B. Sudhakara - eSocialSciences - 2014
An 'Energy Index', which is aggregated from energy indicators is a rich source of information and is helpful in …
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The Evolution of Singapore Business: A Case Study Approach
Sabhlok, Anisha - eSocialSciences - 2010
detailed explanatory notes on concepts, indicators and benchmarks relevant to the analysis in the study. [Working Paper No. 10] …
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Role of Science & Technology, Higher Education and Research in Regional Socio-Economic Development
Shukla, Rajesh; Kakar, Preeti - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper is an attempt to focus on the role of Science and Technology (S&T) on regional development of India by considering 21 Indian states. The Index approach using the Principal Component technique has been adopted. For analysing the impact, a set of three indices focussing on Current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980012
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Construction and Validation of ‘Science Culture Index’ Results from Comparative Analysis of Engagement, Knowledge and Attitudes to Science: India and Europe
Shukla, Rajesh; Bauer, Martin W - eSocialSciences - 2009
Countries world-wide routinely collate statistics on STS performance indicators such as R&D expenditure, science …, but often isolated, attempts to define complementary ‘public understanding of science (PUS)’ indicators including … controversial. Thus, little progress has been achieved to explicitly combine STS performance indicators and PUS indicators in a …
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Shared Goals: Measuring Overall Development in Pakistan
Birdsall, Nancy; Elhai, Wren - eSocialSciences - 2011
Five possible indicators are suggested that illustrate the type of measurable targets that could help the United States …
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Decent Work and the Informal Economy
Trebilcock, Anne - eSocialSciences - 2010
The ILO was founded for social justice, a mandate expressed today in terms of decent work as a global goal, for all who work, whether in formal or informal contexts. In June 2002, the delegates to the International Labour Conference from governments, workers’ and employers’...
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Human Development Index for Andhra Pradesh
Bedi, Jatinder S; H, Ramachandran - eSocialSciences - 2009
considering indicators such as economic attainment, longevity and education. The estimates are worked out with and without … the analysis of data for year 2001, inequalities in all indicators were taken into consideration to measure Human …
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Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What and What Do We Lose?
Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2011
Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is...
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Economic Well-being and Non-economic Well-being: A Review of the Meaning and Measurement of Poverty
Sumner, Andrew - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper discusses the measurement of poverty and well-being. A historical overview is given of the last fifty years …. This is followed by discussion of three groupings of indicators: those measures based primarily on economic well …-being; those based on non-economic well-being and composite indicators. It is argued that the choice of indicator should reflect …
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