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Instruments of policy analysis. the impact assessment development by public authorities in Romania. Case study
Matei, Ani; Dogaru, Tatiana-Camelia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The public authorities are facing real challenges due to the complexity and dynamics of economic and social issues. They must daily assess the available resources and answer to questions such as „is the citizens’ welfare good enough, can it be improved?” „there are the initiatives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147576
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Family size, human capital and growth: structural path analysis of Rwanda
Temel, Tugrul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
investment in human capital. In particular, the human capital investment of households with 1-3 children tends to be more … pronounced than that of households with more than 3 children. Moreover, households with 1-3 children act as an important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147703
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Economic policy, does It help life expectancy? an african evidence of the role of economic policy on longevity.
Ojeaga, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper evaluates some factors that affect longevity in Africa, with the aim of offering an insight on how government economic policy and consumption spending affect the lives of people in developing countries. Government economic policy was found to be contributing in a negative manner to...
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Políticas de protección social, vulnerabilidad económica y enfoque de derechos
Calero, Analía Verónica - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Since the restoration and strengthening of democracy in Latin America, the vision of social policy as a guarantee of human rights, has become more relevant. On this view Government as a guarantor of basic human rights, has the responsibility to intervene with universal public policies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258048
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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal
Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258151
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Does bullying reduce educational achievement? An evaluation using matching estimators
Ponzo, Michela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Mathematics and Science Study (2007-TIMSS), we investigate the impact of being a victim of school bullying on educational … for a number of individual characteristics and school fixed effects. Secondly, in order to attenuate the impact of … suggest that being a victim of school bullying has a considerable negative effect on student performance at both the fourth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421988
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Are fruit and vegetables good for our mental and physical health? Panel data evidence from Australia
Mujcic, Redzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper studies the effect of fruit and vegetable consumption on human well-being. Using individual-level panel data from a representative sample of Australian households, I estimate the intake of fruit and vegetables to have positive and statistically significant impacts on a wide range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108290
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THE IMPACT OF HIV/ AIDS ON POVERTY AND EDUCATION IN AFRICA
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
other vulnerable children (OVC). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836219
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What do we know about non-clinical interventions for preventable and treatable childhood diseases in developing countries?
Seguin, Maureen; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
first and second leading causes of death and morbidity among young children in developing countries. The fact that a large … tested in a developing country context, and which focus on children as the primary target population. Overall, we find that …
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Resilience to crisis and GDP recovery at county level in Romania
Zaman, Gheorghe; Georgescu, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The paper focuses on the issue of regional resilience against the recent financial and economic crisis in the case of Romania, taking the county as territorial unit of observation. Based on the idea that the shock of a crisis impact spreads asymmetrically in the territory, with different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211855