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Standard of Living in the European Union
Stávková, Jana; Žufan, Pavel; Birčiaková, Naďa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This chapter focuses on the measurement of standard of living and on the factors influencing its level. Specific attention is paid to the indicators of standard of living, and the frequent employment of GDP is discussed and compared with possible alternatives. Household income is also a factor...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114183
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Impacts of International and Internal Remittances on Household Welfare: Evidence from Viet Nam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper measures the impact of international and internal remittances on household welfare of remittances-receiving households using data from Viet Nam Household Living Standard Surveys 2002 and 2004. It is found that the receiving of international and internal remittances increased both...
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Social Protection in the Mekong: policy trends and future directions
Cousins, Mel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper analyses the current and possible future development of social protection systems in three Mekong countries: Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam. The three countries are at differing levels of development but face a number of shared challenges including poverty and malnutrition, climate...
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Access To Basic Social Services: An Evaluation From The Viet Nam Household Living Standard Surveys
Nguyen, Cuong; Giang, Long - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study aims to evaluate access to social services of the most vulnerable groups of Vietnamese people, as well as propose some policy recommendations for improving targeting mechanisms for the social protection system in Viet Nam. We will use the Viet Nam Household Living Standard Surveys in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112617
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Measuring the Impact of Cash Crops on Household Expenditure and Poverty in Rural Viet Nam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper measures the impacts of cash crops on household consumption expenditure and poverty in rural Viet Nam using data from the Viet Nam household living standards surveys (VHLSSs) of 2002 and 2004. It has been found that revenues from cash crops have positive and statistically significant...
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Analyzing the Determinants of Services Trade Flow between Vietnam and European Union: Gravity Model Approach
Dao, Ngoc Tien; Pham, Van Nho; Doan, Quang Hung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper aims at analyzing the determinants of services trade flows between Vietnam and European Union. In this … of ten years from 2002 to 2011 for total services trade, services exports and services imports between Vietnam and … Vietnam and its European partner countries are mainly affected by GDP per capita gap between Vietnam and partner countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271324
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Trade Liberalisation and Spatial Inequality: Methodological Innovations in Vietnamese Perspective
Tarp Jensen, Henning; Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper develops a SAM database encompassing 6,002 representative Vietnamese households, mapping one-to-one with 16 aggregate households. The database is used to calibrate two Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models with respectively 16 aggregate and 6,002 disaggregate households....
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