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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
engaging children in child labour, can lock households in a low-income equilibrium or poverty trap. Provided that covariate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259267
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Do remittances alleviate poverty and income inequality in poor countries? Empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Adenutsi, Deodat E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the impact of international remittances on poverty and income …, between 1980 and 2009, were sampled for the poverty analysis whilst a sample size of 36 was used in the remittances … that remittances have significant poverty-alleviating effect, with the poorest of the poor being the least beneficiaries …
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Social protection in sub-Saharan Africa: Will the green shoots blossom?
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Barrientos, Armando; Hulme, David; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper provides an overview of the recent extension of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa. It identifies two main ‘models’ of social protection in the region: the Southern Africa and Middle Africa models. It then assesses the contrasting policy processes behind these models and...
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Financial repression and economic distortions to the stage of economic growth and agricultural development in Bangladesh
Sikder, Md.Anowarul Islam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Financial repression in a developing country is not new to us.The government may take policy for financial repression due to easy collection of inflation tax to the stage of economic development.This study is concerned to find the positive relationship between financial development and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372596
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The Old Man and the SNI: A review of advance and adversity in Hueting's research in sustainable national income (SNI), economic growth and the new scarcity from the environment
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Roefie Hueting (1929), recently turned 78 years of age, has been working on the subject of economics and the environment since around 1965. Seminal results are his notion of environmental functions (WWF, 1969), his Ph.D. thesis “New Scarcity and Economic Growth. More welfare through less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836132
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On the political economy of environmental survival versus collapse. Clarifying the work done by Tinbergen & Hueting vis-à-vis Weitzman, Nordhaus and Stern
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The Stern Review (2006) on the economics of climate change presented a cost estimate of perhaps even 20% of national income and subsequently was criticized by Weitzman and Nordhaus and others in a discussion that centered on the use of the calculus of variations and the choice of the proper rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620164
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The SADC region and EPA/EBAI – trade balance analysis
Sukati, Mphumuzi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates the potential trade balance outcomes of the EPA/EBAI policies in the SADC region using the GTAP7 model and database. The analysis of these policies therefore make conclusion on SADC member states’ changes in trade balance overall, per commodity groups and on overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151621
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Liberating nations from the debt burden
Rabie, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
the paper outlines a plan to liberate all rich and poor nations form the debt burden, restructure the international monetary system and create the necessary conditions for sustainable global economic growth and developemt.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108059
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The Tinbergen & Hueting Approach in the Economics of Ecological Survival
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Tinbergen & Hueting (1991) provide an approach to the economics of ecological survival that still is unsurpassed. Various “green GDPs” have been proposed such as ISEW, Ecological Footprint, Genuine Savings and Genuine Progress Indicator, and lately there is an increased interest in happiness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789764
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Financial Education: Institutes of Higher Education as delivery channels
Singh, Ardhendu; Venkataramani, Bhama - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The significance of financial education as a transformation agent in the financial inclusion agenda of the nation is undisputed in academic as well as practitioner’s circle. This paper discusses its impact on the financial well being of the people and further highlights the steps taken by...
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