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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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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...

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A method to monitor poverty dynamics among microfinance clients: An example using survey data from Bangladesh

Hernandez-Hernandez, Emilio; Schreiner, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This article presents a practical methodology to monitor poverty changes among microfinance clients using available household panel data. As an example, it presents an estimation of the net number of people that rose above the $1/day poverty line while members of Grameen Bank and BRAC during...

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Contribution of agriculture to national economic development

Iacob, Oana Camelia; Volintiru, Ana-Maria; Marin, Aurel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

At national economic level there is a fierce competitivity, experienced more and more perhaps due to the crisis. Functionality of the economy has been a challenge that many have failed to honor, but at least led us to try to. The chance to succeed was related to everyone's desire to ensure...

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Agriculture and rural development challenges in South-Eastern Europe and Turkey with the view to European Union integration process

Davis, Junior - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyse the overall challenges for agriculture and rural development in South Eastern Europe (SEE) and Turkey, and to assess the concept, importance and policy measures tailored towards improving agricultural competitiveness, rural income...

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Agricultural Policy Reforms and Structural Adjustments in Bangladesh

Hasan, Mohammad Monirul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper depicts the agricultural policy reforms and structural changes in Bangladesh from independence to the … present times. Bangladesh agriculture has experienced major structural changes and achieved major successes over the last … and trade policy got a vibration of liberalization in the early 1990s. After the independence, Bangladesh followed a …

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O desenvolvimento de cooperativas de produção coletiva de trabalhadores rurais no capitalismo. Limites e possibilidades

Christoffoli, Pedro Ivan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

This report has been prepared based on a comparative study which tries to analyze the process to establish and develop cooperatives of rural labourers collective production linked to the Landless Rural Labourers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra – MST). The main objective...

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Politics and Economics of Land Reform in the Philippines: a survey

Fuwa, Nobuhiko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

The Philippines has long been known for its high inequality in distribution of wealth and income; unlike many of its Asian neighbors characterized by relatively less inequality by international standards, the Philippine economy has often been compared to Latin American countries which are...

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Change in Social Capital – a Case Study of Collective Rice Farming Practice in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Le, Anh Tuan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper describes how the social capital of rice farmers of the Mekong delta of Vietnam - manifested in the tradition of collective farming practice, changed from the 1940s to 1990s. The reason this collective rice farming had existed for decades, irrespective of critical events that...

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Development planning in the xxi century? a note on old and new methods and tools

mercado, p. ruben; porta, fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The recent crisis of the Washington Consensus has brought with it the return of the involvement of the state in the development process in a number of countries. However, a lot of water has run under the bridge since the golden years of development planning. In this note we review the main...

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