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Measuring Macroeconomic Uncertainty in Zimbabwe

Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2019

What matters to economic decision-making is whether the economy has become more or less predictable. People and businesses use information around them to form judgements about what might happen in the future. The rise in uncertainty might be associated with increased concern about extreme...

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Performance Measurement and Management Promotion through Non-Financial Measures : A Management Accounting Perspective

Eisenberg, Paul - 2018

The purpose of this paper is the discussion of non-financial performance measures that can be adopted in the management accounting function of business organisations. The study is important because it shows how organisational focus on non-financial measures can substantially enhance...

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Assessing Absolute and Relative Poverty Trends with Limited Data in Cape Verde

Angel-Urdinola, Diego; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit … necessary to estimate poverty and inequality using group data. In this paper, we use the Poverty module of SimSIP in order to …

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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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Islam and Human Development

Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The paper aims to present the Islamic appraisal of established theories in academic literature of development economics, both in classical and neo-classical economics. The paper also explains the Islamic concept of human development and shows it to be more welfare maximizing to humans in their...

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Remittances, Poverty and Income Inequality: What relations in rural Morocco?

Bouoiyour, Jamal; Miftah, Amal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

For several decades the fight against poverty has become a major policy concern for national governments and … international institutions. In this paper, we examine the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality by using an original …

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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Generalised Lorenz Curves

Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This module illustrates how Generalised Lorenz (GL) Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options, in many of the cases where ordinary Lorenz curves fail to work After...

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Assessing the impacts of agricultural policy and structural reforms on income distribution and poverty in Brazil

Azzoni, Carlos Roberto; Menezes, Tatiane; Silveira, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

income distribution and poverty levels within those countries.The objective of this study is to produce an estimate of the … impacts of agricultural policy and structural reforms on income distribution and poverty in Brazil, considering not only the …

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The effects of remittances on poverty and inequality: Evidence from rural southern Morocco

Bouoiyour, Jamal; Miftah, Amal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In this paper, we examine the effect of migrants’ remittances on poverty and inequality. The survey data were collected … scenario without remittances; this is then compared with its current income. We find that the poverty rate and the …

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Cross-country comparisons of pensioners’ incomes

Disney, Richard; Whitehouse, Edward - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

This report surveys a dozen international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution and the elderly in OECD … there remain pockets of poverty among the elderly, most studies show that the old are represented proportionally or under …

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