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Standard of Living in the European Union
Stávková, Jana; Žufan, Pavel; Birčiaková, Naďa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
chapter assesses this factor in terms of household income distribution, the setting of poverty limits, the measurement of … income disparity and the causes and effects of poverty. The situation is monitored in five selected EU countries: the Czech …
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Okun's and Barro's Misery Index as an Alternative Poverty Assessment Tool. Recent Estimations for European Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
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Human Development Measurement: A broader approach in India
Sarvalingam, A; Sivakumar, Marimuthu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
How can we measure economic development? Is it in money terms or in human terms? If it is the second one, how can we measure economic development in human aspects? These questions had been asked and argued for several years. Human development concept and its index gives answer for these...
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The quality of growth
Owen, Ann L.; Videras, Julio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We use latent class analysis to categorize development experiences. This technique allows us to consider a broad range of country characteristics including per capita income growth, health, inequality, environmental performance, and life satisfaction. We show that each of these indicators is...
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Impact of demographic features on economic development of India from 2001 - 2010
Dr Bhawna, Rathore - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Impact of demographic features on economic development of India from 2001 - 2010 By Dr. Bhawna Rathore Population of a country is closely related to its economic growth. After the distraction caused by second world war in Germany and Japan, the efficient hard working educated and healthy...
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Subsistenz: Geschichte, Bedeutung und Rekonstruktion des Subsistenzbegriffes
Thieme, Sebastian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
of the poverty line. …
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Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty in Chile Using the National Socio Economic Characterization Panel Survey for 1996, 2001, 2006
Bronfman, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Chile provides an interesting setting to analyze vulnerability to poverty, especially today, after the last poverty … count presented in 2013 by the Ministry of Planning. After twenty years of declining poverty, national indicators showed an … increase in poverty from 13% in 2006 to 14% in 2011. Using the CASEN panel data set, this paper explores some of poverty …
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Deprivation profile in Cameroon: A combined analysis of Poverty and Social Exclusion
Miamo Wendji, Clovis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this study, we analyze the privations welfare in Cameroon considering poverty and social exclusion. The framework … provided by the capability approach and construction of indicators of poverty and social exclusion by the fuzzy method from … ECAM III survey data shows that the overall level of poverty and social exclusion (respectively 0.4008 and 0.2291), are …
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Sustainable Institutions or Sustainable Poverty Targeting: The Case of Microfinance
Khan, Wajid; Sun, Shaorong; Khan, Ikramullah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
microcredit, this article addresses whether or not microcredit has the potential to alleviate poverty, and whether or not the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251879
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The poverty and inequality nexus in Ghana: a decomposition analysis of household expenditure components
Novignon, Jacob; Nonvignon, Justice; Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … poverty and inequality. The findings imply that policies directed towards reducing within-component inequality will be more …
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