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This paper investigates institutional factors affecting the performance of genuine savings (GS), which is often used in …
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We adopt the definition of sustainability as “non-declining welfare per capita”, and measure genuine savings and change … in wealth per capita as indicator of weak sustainability. The results suggests that the overall trend in sustainability … as measured by changes in wealth per capita had shown that the Indonesian economy during the last twenty years had not …
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In this paper, we consider how genuine savings would be altered if the adjustment costs of capitals are taken into … account in the stylized capitalresource model. It is shown that, in order to derive the modified genuine savings, through … shadow prices, the original genuine savings have to be divided by the marginal adjustment costs of the capital in question …
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savings indicator. We analyse the forest resources considering positive externalities of natural capital, as the approximation …
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As explained in the paper namely, “Measuring a Societies Knowledge base”, it is not difficult to measure the knowledge base of a society, though it would be very laborious and time consuming. Knowledge is simply all the laws of existence a society knows plus all the products that a society...
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This paper clarifies some misinterpretations of three foundational concepts in mainstream economics from Islamic viewpoint. These are scarcity of resources, pursuit of self-interest and maximizing behavior of economic agents. It argues that stocks of resources that God has provided are...
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We use Vickrey uniform auctions to provide an indirect robustness test of the endowment effect. Our panel data promotes two results: (1) evidence of the endowment effect exists in that risk seeking behavior following losses is less severe for 'out of pocket' losses as opposed to foregone gain....
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This paper analyses the effects of employment condition and work hours on the utilisation of primary care services in Italy. Although the Italian NHS provides free and equitable access to primary care, type of occupation and labour contracts may still deter workers to attend medical...
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Unscathed agrobiodiversity remaining in-situ today is found on the small-scale farms and homestead gardens of poorer and developing countries (Brookfield, 2001). The indigenous traditional farming of Muthuvan tribe as the case of Finger millet or Ragi (Eleusine coracana), a minor millet...
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