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‘Williamson's Fallacy’ in Estimation of Inter-Regional Inequality
Gluschenko, Konstantin - 2017
When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943787
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Education Inequality, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality : Evidence from Indonesia, 1996-2005
Digdowiseiso, Kumba - 2010
This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143699
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Population, Forest Degradation and Environment: A Nexus
Das, Nimai; Sarker, Debnarayan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
In order to examine the trend and impact of relationship between growth of forest resource and population in West Bengal, a province of India, in the time series data for every ten-year from 1901-1991 this study suggests that the increase of population to forest land in West Bengal is alarming,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014722
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Calibrating Benefit Function Transfer to Assess the Conservation Reserve Program
Hellerstein, Daniel; Feather, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
Benefit transfer offers an inexpensive alternative to conducting an original study to determine economic value. Unfortunately, benefit transfers can also result in biased welfare estimates. In this paper, we suggest a method of calibrating the benefit transfer to reduce this bias. An empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008681020
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Towards the reproducibility in soil erosion modeling: a new pan-European soil erosion map
Bosco, Claudio; de Rigo, Daniele; Dewitte, Olivier; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Soil erosion by water is a widespread phenomenon throughout Europe and has the potentiality, with his on-site and off-site effects, to affect water quality, food security and floods. Despite the implementation of numerous and different models for estimating soil erosion by water in Europe, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107592
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Assessing Indicators of Currency Crisis in Ethiopia: Signals Approach
Megersa, kelbesa; Cassimon, Danny - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
currency crisis in Ethiopia over the time frame January 1970 to December 2008. Using the Exchange Market Pressure Index (EMPI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259158
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Land Access and Youth Livelihood Opportunities in Southern Ethiopia
Bezu, Sosina; Holden, Stein T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study aims to examine current land access and youth livelihood opportunities in Southern Ethiopia. Access to … agricultural land is a constitutional right for rural residents of Ethiopia. We used survey data from the relatively land abundant … livelihood. The law prohibits the purchase and sale of land in Ethiopia. We found that land access through allocation from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260202
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Air Transport and Destination Performance – A case study of three African countries (Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa)
Tchouamou Njoya, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Tourism is increasingly being promoted as an important source of economic growth especially in developing countries. While there are many elements that contribute to tourism growth, without an efficient air transport system, it is almost impossible for a number of landlocked and geographically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260537
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Foreign aid and economic growth in Ethiopia
Tadesse, Tasew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Abstract The study has examined the impact of foreign aid on investment and economic growth in Ethiopia over the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325600
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Employment dynamics in the rural nonfarm sector in Ethiopia Do the poor have time on their side?
Bezu, Sosina; Barrett, Christopher B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We study rural employment transitions in Ethiopia between farming and both low- and high-return nonfarm employment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401335