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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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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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Subjective Well-Being as Welfare Measure: Concepts and Methodology.
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-being based on co-existing concepts, resulting in differing measures and giving rise to different potential policy applications. This paper motivates the societal necessity for using well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078654
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Interim Financial Reporting in the Perspective of harmonization of the Romanian Accountancy with the International Financial Reporting Standards
Bunea-Bontas, Cristina Aurora - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
full financial year. The accounting policies for recognition and measurement should be applied in the same way as they are … estimation methods; the measurement procedures should be designed to ensure the correctness of all the resulting information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079297
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Measurement of consensus with a reference
José Carlos R., Alcantud; Rocío, de Andrés; José … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this work we contribute to the formal analysis of the measurement of consensus in a society. Instead of approaching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226832
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Ryzyko struktury: Rys koncepcyjny
Staszkiewicz, Piotr W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The article presents the initial proposal for the group risk measurement based on the comparison of two interconnected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325682
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How can the Power of Leviathans be Measured?
Jürgen, Göbel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In certain respects, it seems expedient to describe a government as a homogeneous and self-interested entity, called ’Leviathan’. To optimize fiscal constraints, we need to know how powerful a Leviathan really is. This paper presents a new approach to measure the power of Leviathans. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786937
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Is There a Numbers versus Rights Trade-off in Immigration Policy? What the Data Say
Cummins, Matthew; Rodriguez, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper explores the empirical support behind the idea that there is a trade-off between the size of the migrant population and the rights and entitlements enjoyed by immigrants. We first look at the empirical correlation between measures of migrants’ rights and the size of the stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559078
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Decentralization Dilemma: Measuring the Degree and Evaluating the Outcomes
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Though decentralization for past one and half decade or so has become the most favoured policy priority among the policy makers yet the countries around the world differ dramatically in the degree of decentralization that is accommodated. While diversity in degree of decentralization across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835415
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Corruption: Measuring the Unmeasurable
Zaman, Asad; Rahim, Faizur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
While the strategy of measuring and quantifying has been extremely successful, and valuable in the progress of science, it does not follow that it is universally useful. We argue that attempts to measure corruption can be counterproductive in several different ways. Qualitative and action...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835523