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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056555
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Deprivation profile in Cameroon: A combined analysis of Poverty and Social Exclusion
Miamo Wendji, Clovis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this study, we analyze the privations welfare in Cameroon considering poverty and social exclusion. The framework … provided by the capability approach and construction of indicators of poverty and social exclusion by the fuzzy method from … ECAM III survey data shows that the overall level of poverty and social exclusion (respectively 0.4008 and 0.2291), are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275134
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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147310
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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258636
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Les restaurants du coeur : pour qui et pourquoi ?
Mulquin, Marie-Eve; Siaens, Corinne; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
restaurant thus appears to contribute to the fight against social exclusion as much as to that against poverty per se. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617042
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Inequality of poverty in Cameroon: A Dagum sub-group decomposition analysis
Essimi, Biloa; Aristide, Jean; Chameni Nembua, Celestin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
From a multidimensional analysis of poverty which enables us, through the use of technique of fuzzy sets, to construct … a poverty indicator in this perspective in Cameroon, we analyse the poverty gaps in our country by making use of the … Dagum sub-group decomposition (1997) which breaks down the Gini index into three components. Poverty analysis revealed that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277276
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836273
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Firm heterogeneity in productivity across Europe. What explains what?
Aiello, Francesco; Ricotta, Fernanda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper analyses the TFP heterogeneity of a sample of manufacturing firms operating in seven EU countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain and UK). TFP data refer to 2008. The empirical setting is based on the multilevel modelling which provides two main results. Firstly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210849
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Comparative fiscal illusion: A fiscal illusion index for the European Union
Dell'Anno, Roberto; Dollery, Brian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper provides an empirical analysis of fiscal illusion by estimating an index of fiscal illusion for 28 European countries over the period 1995–2008 employing a structural equation approach. Using MIMIC models, the paper investigates the main indicators of fiscal illusion and develops an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260763
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Employment Effects of Ecological Innovations: An Empirical Analysis
Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
Ecological innovations have increasingly been seen as a major response to environmental problems. An important question for both economic research and public policy is whether these innovations also increase employment or not (the question of a double dividend). The purpose of this paper is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789537