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Wise exploitation – a game with a higher productivity than cooperation – transforms biological productivity into economic productivity.
Friedrich, T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
I suggest a new game called wise exploitation. It is characterized by a small investment of the exploiting party to either breed the exploited party or educate the exploited party not to detect exploitation. Thereby a higher productivity than cooperation or prisoners´ dilemma is achieved. The...
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How well has the Social Protection Scheme Reduced Vulnerability in Chile?
Bronfman, Javier; Floro, Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper empirically investigates the impact of Chile’s social protection’s monetary subsidies on vulnerability to …. (2002) method to estimate vulnerability. Since access to monetary subsidies is not random, we use the propensity score … protection transfers on vulnerability is examined both for the entire sample and the poor using Average Treatment Effect on the …
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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 … deal of social movement into and out of poverty. Furthermore, this paper advances the knowledge on vulnerability to poverty … in Chile by estimating a vulnerability measurement. The evidence reveals a high level of vulnerability to poverty present …
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Vulnerability to poverty in Italy
Amendola, Nicola; rossi, mariacristina; Vecchi, Giovanni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The article empirically analyses the phenomenon of vulnerability to poverty – meant as an individual’s likelihood of … the incidence of vulnerability to poverty at national and regional level. We find that potential poverty concerns an … on the rise: moving from north to south, the risk of becoming poor in the future triples. Vulnerability analysis turns …
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Crizele de mortalitate şi vulnerabilitatea comunităţilor bihorene şi sătmărene în faţa morţii (a doua jumătate a secolului XIX – începutul secolului XX)
Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Our study, as we intend it, upon the vulnerability when confronted with death and death rate is structured as a … brings to our attention mainly the vulnerability of these communities. Towards the end of the analyzed period we can notice a …
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The impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises on households in Nigeria. A retrospective approach for research enquiry
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Chiripanhura, Blessing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household welfare. Our results indicate that aggregate shocks have...
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Reduction of disaster vulnerability through Indigenous knowledge
Pathan, Pervez.A; Khan, A. Razzaq; Razzaq, S; Jariko, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
vulnerability is one way of engaging and moblising community capacity. This paper discuses he use of the local/ indegenious … through multiple regressions and in the end suggestions and recommendations put forward in the light of local vulnerability to …
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Infantile mortality and life expectancy: vulnerability indicators in north-western Transylvanian communities (second half of the 19th century – beginning of the 20th century)
Brie, Mircea; Polgar, Istvan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Life expectancy at birth or middle age was tightly connected to mortality structure. Major mortality crises in certain years greatly reduced life expectancy in the area. High mortality rate influencing all age groups led to a considerable decrease of average age. From the point of view of life...
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Assessing Vulnerability to Poverty:Evidence from Pakistan
Jamal, Haroon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper assesses the extent of household vulnerability to poverty in Pakistan. Preferably, household panel data of … sufficient length is used to measure the incidence of vulnerability. However this data is rare in developing countries and if … vulnerability as “expected poverty” using cross-sectional household surveys. The estimates show that about 52 percent population was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260970
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Capacity of local communities in pre and post disasters situation in coastal area of Pakistan
Abdul Razzaq, Khan; Dr. Pervez Ahmed, Pathan; Dr. … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The present study attempted to assess the vulnerability of coastal areas of Pakistan that cashed in one's chips in the … monsoon flood, 2010. This assessment helps to recognize the vulnerability of local people of coastal communities for planning … also ignores these areas in the provision of educational facilities. Considering the disaster vulnerability of coastal …
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