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Measuring food security using respondents' perception of food consumption adequacy
Migotto, Mauro; Davis, Benjamin; Caretto, Gero; Beegle, … - 2006
: Albania, Indonesia, Madagascar and Nepal. Simple descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients, contingency tables and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284755
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A framework for incorporating environmental indicators to the measurement of human well-being
Zaim, Osman - 2005
This study, relying on an economic-theoretical approach to index numbers, proposes a framework for incorporating environmental indicators to the measurement of human well-being. Furthermore this study also proposes an improvement index which alleviates the well-known deficiency of across-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284545
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Does foreign direct investment and trade promote economic growth? Evidence from Albania
Hobbs, Sam; Paparas, Dimitrios; AboElsoud, Mostafa E. - In: Economies 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19
Albania has experienced a rapid transition from a centrally planned economy to a mixed economy since the fall of … direct investment (FDI) and international trade to become key components of Albania's economy. Against this backdrop, this … study investigates the relationships among FDI, trade, and economic growth in Albania. Annual time-series data were obtained …
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Globalization, local ecosystems, and the rural poor
Aggarwal, Rimjhim M. - 2005
ecological dynamics, and consequently, on poverty. – poverty ; globalization ; environment ; ecosystem resilience ; institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327266
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Tax policy reforms in Nigeria
Odusola, Ayodele - 2006
Nigeria is governed by a federal system, hence its fiscal operations also adhere to the same principle, a fact which has serious implications on how the tax system is managed. The country’s tax system is lopsided, and dominated by oil revenue. It is also characterized by unnecessarily complex,...
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The environmental consequences of growth: Empirical evidence from the Republic of Kazakhstan
Akbota, Amantay; Baek, Jungho - In: Economies 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-11
The main objective of this paper is to examine the effect growth has on CO2 emissions in Kazakhstan, controlling for energy consumption, in the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) cointegration framework. We find that the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis seems to hold for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009821
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China's development strategy and energy security: Growth, distribution and regional cooperation
Khan, Haider A. - 2008
This paper analyses both global and regional approaches to solving problems of energy security and ecological imbalance by addressing specifically the problems of China's energy security. China's growing energy dependence has become a major concern for both economic and national security...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273437
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Development of methodology and assessment of ecological safety of the EAEU and CIS regions in the context of sustainable development
Demidova, Svetlana; Balog, Michael; Chircova, Tatiana; … - In: Economies 9 (2021) 3, pp. 1-20
. For several regions, the increased number of objects polluting the environment is accompanied by a decreased volume of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013199838
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Economic freedom and income inequality: Does political regime matter?
Ahmad, Mahyudin - In: Economies 5 (2017) 2, pp. 1-28
There is a growing literature studying the effects of economic freedom and democracy on income inequality; nevertheless … democracy is estimated. The findings demonstrate that economic freedom has positive effect on income inequality. The estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009772
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Democracy and inter-regional trade enhancement in Sub-Saharan Africa: Gravity model
Durmaz, Nazif; Kagochi, John - In: Economies 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-17
There has been considerable research on the effect of democracy on trade openness since the 1980s when development … strategies toward free trade and democracy were rapidly adopted in developing countries. Most studies have focused on Asian … attempt to fill that gap and uses a gravity model approach to test the effects of democracy in SSA on trade. Our results show …
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