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demand in Ghana over the years. It is found through the review that studies have not reached a consensus on the direction of …
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This paper proposes a performance assessment method (PAM) at urban scale, based on five specific waste indicators such as: population access to waste collection services (%),separate collection (%), reuse & recycle (%), landfilling (%) and amounts of waste uncollected (Qwu-%). Values of each...
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Landfills are the most common and easiest methods to dispose the municipal waste in Romania and still prevails in current waste management options. This type of critical infrastructure was designed to dispose urban waste generated over years or even decades and ultimately led to create new...
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Urban waste generation due to economic development and living standards raise serious problems in providing sustainable waste management of cities . Because not all of Romania's urban population are served by sanitation services, some wastes are generated and uncollected being often uncontrolled...
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The cities are facing illegal dumping of municipal solid waste (MSW) because the waste collection facilities do not cover the entire population. Furthermore, this sector is poorly developed in small towns or villages annexed to administrative territory units (ATU) of cities,MSW are disposed in...
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This study examined the expenditure pattern of beef and chicken by individual households in Akoko South-West of Ondo … meat products by households in the study area. Three Hundred household heads were selected from the area using the simple … volume of the products consumed by households differ significantly. Chicken is consumed more than beef in the study area …
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This study examined the preference for and consumption pattern of meat types by individual households - Specifically ….92%). The proportion of household’s total expenditure on meat was high for low income households (on average 18%) while on … average of 9% for middle/high income households. The percentage of household food expenditure expended on meat was high for …
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In this paper we examine the role of intergenerational transfers in the wealth accumulation of Italian households …. Received transfers represent an important share of the net wealth held by households. Direct estimates referring to 2002 range … considered in a lifetime perspective. Households receiving transfers show higher levels of lifetime income, consumption, net …
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The paper offers a broad overview of the topics addressed during the Bank of Italy's conference on Household wealth in Italy held in Perugia (Italy) in 2007. It recalls the principal reasons for central bank involvement in the compilation of statistics on wealth, looks at the Bank of Italy's...
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For decades, the academic literature has focused on three survey measures of expected inflation: the Livingston Survey, the Survey of Professional Forecasters, and the Michigan Survey. While these measures have been useful in developing models of forecasting inflation, the data are low frequency...
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