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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change for Sustainable Growth
Valaguzza, Sara (ed.); Hughes, Mark Alan (ed.) - 2022 - 1st ed. 2022.
1. Introduction -- 2. The Ideological Trick of Climate Change and Sustainability -- 3. Words Count: the Role of Language in Overcoming Climate Inertia -- 4. Measuring Complex Socio-Economic Phenomena. Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- 5. Glaciers: Vanishing Elements of our Mountains and...
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30 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall : Turns and Twists in Economies, Politics, and Societies in the Post-Communist Countries
Akimov, Alexandr (ed.); Kazakevitch, Gennadi (ed.) - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
1. 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Trends and the Current State of Communism and Post-Communism in Europe … Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe have tied their post-communist transition to deep integration into the West …, including EU accession. Most of the states in Central and Eastern Europe have been able to relatively successfully transform …
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From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion : Households, Debts and Masculinity among Calon Gypsies of Northeast Brazil
Fotta, Martin - 2018
This book analyses how Calon Gypsies in Brazil have responded to global financial transformations and shifted their economic practices from itinerant trade to moneylending. It also explores their role as ethnic credit providers, offering rare insight into the financial lives of poor and...
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The right amount of trust
Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2010
We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Heterogeneity of trust beliefs in the population, coupled with the tendency of individuals to extrapolate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729239
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Rural nonfarm employment and incomes in the Himalayas
Micevska, Maja (contributor); Rahut, Dil Bahadur (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003676321
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Liberal principles for social welfare relations in infinitely-lived societies
Lombardi, Michele; Veneziani, Roberto - 2009
This paper extends the analysis of liberal principles in social choice recently proposed by Mariotti and Veneziani (2009a) to infinitely-lived societies. First, a novel characterisation of the inegalitarian leximax social welfare relation is provided based on the Individual Benefit Principle,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877125
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Gradientes de riqueza en el desarrollo cognitivo durante la primera infancia en cinco países de América Latina
Schady, Norbert Rüdiger; Behrman, Jere R.; Araujo, … - 2014
Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and non-cognitive ability appear early in the life cycle. Little is known about this important question for developing countries. This paper provides new evidence of sharp differences in cognitive development by socioeconomic...
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Assessing the effects of eclimate and socioeconomic factors on vulnerability to vector-borne diseases in Latin America
García Ayala, Rodrigo; Estrugo, Andrés - 2014
Climate change is imposing a large burden on the most vulnerable populations, particularly in the developing world. Establishing consistent causal relationships, however, is difficult because a multiplicity of climatic, economic and sociodemographic elements are combined to create the conditions...
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Non-contributory pensions
Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul J.; Bando Grana, … - 2014
The creation of non-contributory pension schemes is becoming increasingly common as countries struggle to reduce poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural adults over 70 years of age-- we evaluate the effects of...
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Concurrent validity and feasibility of short tests currently used to measure early childhood development in large scale studies : methodology and results
Rubio-Codina, Marta; Araujo, María Caridad; Attanasio, … - 2016
In low- and middle-income countries (LIMCs) measuring early childhood development (ECD) with standard tests in large scale surveys (i.e. evaluations of interventions) is difficult and expensive. Multi-dimensional screeners and single-domain tests ('short tests') are frequently used as...
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