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Development of System Dynamic Model of Latvia’s Economic Integration in the EU
Skribans, Valerijs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. Latvia's incoming in EU increased the amount of received means from structural...
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Vulnerability to asset-poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Echevin, Damien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
show that expected asset-poverty is a reliable proxy for expected consumption-poverty. Applying the methodology to nine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403459
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Characterizing poverty and vulnerability in rural Haiti: a multilevel decomposition approach
Echevin, Damien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
rural areas. Using two-level modelling of consumption/income, we assess the impact of both observable and unobservable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403462
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Impacts of International and Internal Remittances on Household Welfare: Evidence from Viet Nam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
international and internal remittances increased both income and consumption expenditures of the recipients. The impact of … impact on income was much higher than the impact on consumption expenditures. It means that a large proportion of … just slightly larger than the impact on consumption expenditures. In other words, most of the internal remittances were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685536
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Does a Grant-based Approach Work for Addressing Extreme Poverty? A RCT Approach
Das, Narayan C; Raza, Wameq A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Addressing extreme poverty remains a key challenge for development in Bangladesh. BRAC initiated the “Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction” (CFPR) programme—a grant-based approach to tackle extreme poverty. This study provides an assessment of the cogency of this grant-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259712
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What does a well-being perspective add to our understanding of poverty?
Shams, Khadija - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Drawing on unique survey data for rural Pakistan, we investigate the impact of socio-demographic factors on life satisfaction with particular emphasis on subjective well-being measurement to evaluate poverty and its different components. The data elicits information on overall well-being in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260308
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Minimum Wage Legislation and Economic Growth: Channels and Effects
Mo, Pak Hung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Despite decades of experience and research, the effects of minimum wage legislation (MWL) on long-run economic performance have rarely been studied since Stigler’s (1946) classic exposition about the shortcomings of MWL. In this study, we use a novel method to estimate the magnitude and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399165
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Production Efficiency and Agricultural Technologies in the Ethiopian Agriculture
Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Stochastic frontier production function analysis was performed to examine relative crop and milk production efficiency among peasants in Ada and Selale districts of the Central highlands of Ethiopia. The results indicate that Ada farmers exhibit relatively higher efficiency scores in cereal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837294
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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria: Theory and practice - a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1979
The knowledge of social stratification within the peasantry is a decisive precondition of sustainable economic and political measures for an effective support of agricultural production in least developed countries. This is one of the reasons why also in Nigeria social scientist focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622095
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Should We Track Migrant Households When Collecting Household Panel Data?:Household Relocation, Economic Mobility and Attrition Biases in the Rural Philippines
Fuwa, Nobuhiko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
determinants of percapita household consumption and of its growth rate. Many households relocate for non-economic reasons, and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839195