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Subjective Well-Being Approach to the Valuation of International Development: Evidence for the Millennium Development Goals
Beja Jr., Edsel L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The subjective well-being approach to the valuation of international development is applied to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The rich countries have particular preferences for education, healthcare, and housing; they need compensation for failure to meet the targets by 2015. The poor...
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A Search for a Measure of the Quality of Life on Prince Edward Island: An Inter-Provincial ‘Cost of Living’ Inquiry
Baldacchino, Godfrey; Funk, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Can one come up with the ‘hard science’ to show that part of the enviable ‘quality of life’ in certain provinces in Canada has to do with the differential ‘purchasing power’ of their residents? Although the mean level of earnings/income per annum is lower/higher in certain provinces...
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The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness
Veenhoven, Ruut; Vergunst, Floris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The 'Easterlin Paradox' holds that economic growth in nations does not buy greater happiness for the average citizen …. This thesis was advanced in the 1970s on the basis of the then available data on happiness in nations. Later data have … between economic growth and happiness. This last claim was tested using the time trend data available in the World Database of …
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Subjective Well-Being as Welfare Measure: Concepts and Methodology.
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
well-being’, ‘affect’, ‘life satisfaction’, and ‘happiness’. It describes their measurements and operationalizations in …Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-being based on co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078654
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Accounting for Unobserved Country Heterogeneity in Happiness Research: Country Fixed Effects versus Region Fixed Effects
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Many empirical studies are ambiguous about whether good formal institutions are conducive to subjective well-being or not. Possibly, this ambiguity is caused by cross-section models that do not account for unobserved cultural and institutional effects. Using the World Value Survey 1980-2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536074
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A critical analysis of Mudarabah & a new approach to equity financing in Islamic finance
Shaikh, Salman Ahmed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Financial intermediation serves a valuable purpose, but it can also be structured using equity modes of financing. This can relieve the financee and increase diversity of entrepreneurial undertakings as in debt based commercial financing, there is little room for diversity with obligatory and...
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Fort de sa vigueur, qu’en est-il de l’inclusivité de la croissance en RDC? (Given Its Strength, Is Economic Growth Inclusive in DRC?)
Akhenaton, Izu - 2016
French Abstract: Partant d'un constat malheureux, la visée de ce papier consiste à saisir la qualité de la croissance économique en RDC. Pour cela, deux approches ont été sollicitées entre autres, l'approche de la croissance pro-pauvres, la croissance inclusive. Il appert de ces approches...
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Microcredit using Equity Financing: an Alternate Approach to Equity Financing in an Interest Free Financing
Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Interest is prohibited in all monotheist religions; however, it features as an essential element in practiced capitalism. Interest based financial system has created two major havocs in last two decades i.e. in East Asia in 90s and in the Great Recession since 2007. This paper highlights the...
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Análisis del acoplamiento entre la riqueza y el desarrollo socioeconómico de las naciones
Prada, Albino; Sanchez-Fernandez, Patricio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this paper, the attributes and variables featuring the development of the World countries are reviewed. The relationship between wealth levels and some estimates using synthetic indices of social development is analyzed. With this aim, we firstly use the indicators estimated by UNDP....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114208
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Del concepto de crecimiento económico al de desarrollo y bienestar de las naciones: Una aplicación a la Unión Europea
Prada, Albino; Sanchez-Fernandez, Patricio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper, the attributes and variables that characterize the development and welfare of rich countries (EU27) are reviewed. The relationship between the wealth levels and some estimates using synthetic indices of social development is analyzed (SDI). For this purpose, we firstly use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115502