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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147310
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Right to water and access to water
Anand, P B - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines the scope for a rights-based perspective on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by focusing on right to water. The paper adapts Hohfeldian framework of elements of a right developed by Wenar. According to this, a right should be interpreted in terms of powers, privileges,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259587
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Uganda's microfinance policy regime: An exploratio through a political-economy framework
Schmidt, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In 2005, Uganda’ government fundamentally shifted the direction of its microfinance (MF) policy. Hitherto it had … direction served the objectives of Uganda’s politicians to maintain political power, as it offered them an avenue to create …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260487
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Pro-poor water service strategies in developing countries: promoting justice in Uganda’s urban project
Berg, Sanford V; Mugisha, Silver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Water service to the urban poor presents challenges to political leaders, regulators and managers. We identify technology mixes of yard taps, public water points (with and without pre-paid meters) to meet alternative constraints, and reflecting populations served and investment requirements....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251544
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Economic viability of fertiliser use in Uganda's agriculture
Okoboi, Geofrey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We examine the viability of inorganic fertiliser use in Uganda, using the 2005/06 Uganda National Household Survey data …-crop profitability is likely to be counter-productive to the drive of increasing agricultural productivity and household income in Uganda …. Hence, the drive to increase fertiliser use in Uganda can succeed only if farmers are widely sensitized not about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550048
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The becoming of a market - A reflection illustrated by two case studies from Uganda
Schmidt, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
. fish and minibus (“matatu”) services in Uganda, East Africa since the mid-1980ties. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619391
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Vulnerability and Poverty Dynamics in Uganda, 1992-1999
Kasirye, Ibrahim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper uses a panel data set of 1309 households in Uganda to measure vulnerability to poverty between 1992/93 and … poverty increases with higher education attainment of the household head. Also households resident in northern Uganda are … about 60 percent more vulnerable compared to their counterparts in central Uganda. The study also finds that causes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621932
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Türkiye’deki Hükümetlerin Makroekonomik Performanslarının Bir Karşılaştırması, 1987-2007
Kibritçioğlu, Aykut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper, a macroeconomic performance index (MEP10) which consists of selected ten indicators is proposed to evaluate the relative performance of Turkish governments by using monthly data for the period of December 1987 – April 2007. According to the multi-staged evaluation process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260143
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Banks' Reserves' Restrictions and Economic Performance in Sudan (2007-2009)
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper analyzes the impacts of Islamic and conventional Banks reserves' restrictions in Sudan. Comprehensively, those restrictions are necessary for health banks, performance and the viability of the macroeconomic performance in any country. The selected period of the analysis (2007-2009) is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367965
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Enterprise in transition: institutional framework, economic behavior and the implications for macroeconomic management. Retrospective look on Russia in the 90th.
Sherstnev, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
The Russian experience showed that macroeconomic performance in the transition economy is crucially dependent of the right microeconomic fundamentals. The paper offers retrospective view on the initial stages of market transformation in Russia from the point of view of interrelationships between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008516585