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quantify the effects of farmland loss on household livelihood outcomes in peri-urban areas of Hanoi, Vietnam. Our study found …, the results show that farmland loss has an indirect positive impact on household welfare, via its positive impact on the …Although there has been much discussion in the literature about the impacts of farmland loss (due to urbanization) on …
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This study presents risk assessment of natural disasters in the poor provinces in Northern Mountain of Vietnam. We …, and flash flood are seen as the most common extreme weather events that have threatened public infrastructure, household …
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The concern for measuring wellbeing objectively and subjectively is found in modern political philosophy. This study explores objective indicators versus subjective perceptions of human wellbeing in ranking of survey data for districts of Pakistan. Data used for the analysis is ‘The Pakistan...
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A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent...
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This paper assesses the impact of 30 years of globalization on gender equity in well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean. Data indicate that while some gaps in well-being have narrowed, progress is uneven across a set of nine indicators, and in some cases, conditions have worsened. Despite...
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A project called "A Program of Sustainable Development of the Traditional Crafts, Artistic and Cultural Values, and Ethnic Values of the Rural Region of Babina Greda" was started up in Vukovar-Srijem County. Regarding the fact that the woman artist Ana Verić lives in Babina Greda, and that she...
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This paper provides a theory of holdout based on the landowners' inability to manage large sums of money and consequent lack of consumption smoothing in case of sale. We find that under some reasonable conditions fragmentation increases holdout and moreover, this happens if and only if large...
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land acquisition and loss of livelihood. Instead, it goes to the core of over three decades of left rule and raises serious …
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) in Hanoi's peri-urban areas, Vietnam. The result also revealed that farmland holding was not statistically correlated … industrialization) has no impact on the probability of a household belonging to a particular income group (poor, middle class or rich … with the likelihood of the household being in a given income group. Nevertheless, other factors, including households …
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Vietnam has achieved high economic growth and poverty reduction over the last two decades. However the country has … sector. Household average real income increased at the rate of 3.5 percent during 2010-2012, which is substantially lower …
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