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Melles, Gavin Brett (ed.) - 2022

Designing Social Innovation for Sustainable Livelihoods -- Designing Sustainable Livelihoods for Informal Markets in Dhaka -- Designing Livelihoods Responsibly: Insights from Seed Conservation and Management Practices among Farming Communities in India -- Designerly Ways for Sustainable...

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Climate Change, Livelihood Diversification and Well-Being : The Case of Rural Odisha

Mitra, Arup; Das, Saudamini; Tripathi, Amarnath; … - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.

Chapter 1. Climate change impact on livelihood and well-being of rural poor -- Chapter 2. Primary and Secondary Information -- Chapter 3. Perceptions of Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies -- Chapter 4. Livelihood Diversification in Odisha -- Chapter 5. Climate Change, Diversification...

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Just Enough : The History, Culture and Politics of Sufficiency

Ingleby, Matthew (ed.); Randalls, Samuel (ed.) - 2019

This book fosters a wide-ranging and nuanced discussion of the concept of ‘enough’. Acknowledging the prominence of notions of sufficiency in debates about sustainability, it argues for a more complex, culturally and historically informed understanding of how these might be manifested across...

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Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages : The Unreliable Data, Sources and Methods that have been used for Measuring Standards of Living in the Past

Hatcher, John (ed.); Stephenson, Judy Z. (ed.) - 2018

The quality of life experienced by people in the past is one of the most important areas of historical enquiry, and the standard of living of populations is one of the leading measures of the economic performance of nations. Yet how accurate is the information on which these judgments are based?...

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Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java : Comparisons, Contrasts, and Connections, 1830–1940

van Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise - 2019

Chapter 1: Introduction. Women’s work in the Netherlands and Java, 1830-1940 -- Chapter 2: An exceptional empire? Dutch colonialism in comparative perspective -- Chapter 3: Industrious women in an imperial economy: The Cultivation System and its consequences -- Chapter 4: Industrialisation,...

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Revisiting Economic Vulnerability in Old Age : Low Income and Subjective Experiences Among Swiss Pensioners

Henke, Julia - 2020

1. Theoretical Framework -- 2. Research Design -- 3. Prevalence of Economic Vulnerability among Swiss Pensioners -- 4. The Self-Assessed Measure of Economic Vulnerability -- 5. The Perceived Measure of Economic Vulnerability -- 6. Discussion and Conclusion.

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Beyond Economics : Happiness as a Standard in our Personal Life and in Politics

Ott, Jan - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.

1. Introduction: an old discussion but a new challenge! -- 2. The concept of happiness as subjective well-being -- 3. The measurement of happiness as an actual phenomenon -- 4. Dualism of happiness; the body and the mind again! -- 5. Affective happiness, or the affective component of happiness...

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Standard of Living : Essays on Economics, History, and Religion in Honor of John E. Murray

Gray, Patrick (ed.); Hall, Joshua C. (ed.); … - 2022

Urbanization, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Progressive Era, 1899-1929 -- The Continuing Puzzle of Hypertension among African Americans: Developmental Origins and the Mid-century Socioeconomic Transformation -- Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract: The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours...

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Essays in Economic History : Purchasing Power Parity, Standard of Living, and Monetary Standards

Officer, Lawrence H. - 2022

Part 1: Purchasing Power Parity: Origin and Use -- Chapter 1: Salamancans and Gerard Malynes -- Chapter 2: Gustav Cassel -- Chapter 3: Purchasing Power Parity in Economic History -- Chapter 4: Afterword to Part I -- Part 2: Purchasing Power Parity: Empirical Studies -- Chapter 5: Absolute and...

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Board Directors, Financial Derivatives, and Corporate Governance: The Case of Vietnam

Tran Thi Hong Lien - 2022

-- Methodology -- A Big Picture of Directors’ Understanding of Financial Derivatives in Vietnam -- Directors’ Perspectives of the Big …-methods investigation of boardrooms in the emerging country of Vietnam particularly on the topic of financial derivatives. Directors are the … government officials, board directors, training organizations and scholars, particularly in Vietnam. . …

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