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Famine and Finance : Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland
Goodspeed, Tyler Beck - 2017
The book uses archival data to examine how access to micro-finance credit played a role in facilitating adjustment to blight during the Great Famine of Ireland. The author argues that the worst affected districts with a microfinance fund experienced substantially smaller population declines and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397407
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Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa : A Multi-faceted Economic Approach
Heshmati, Almas (ed.) - 2016
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Child poverty and household poverty in Cameroon: A multidimensional approach … determinants of poverty in Nigeria: Evidence from panel survey -- Chapter 6: The Impact of international remittances on expenditure … patterns of urban households in Ethiopia -- Chapter 7: Determinants of consumption expenditures and poverty dynamics in urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019768
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Poverty, hunger and democracy in Africa : potential and limitations of democracy in cementing multiethnic societies
Bigman, David - 2011
The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s.These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106207
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Sozialer Abstieg und Konsum : Auswirkungen finanzieller Verknappung auf das Konsumverhalten
Wendt, Eva - 2010
Angesichts der zunehmenden Prekarisierung von Erwerbs- und Familienbiographien stellt sich die bisher kaum untersuchte, aber immer relevantere Frage, wie Individuen mit einer Schmälerung ihrer individuellen finanziellen Ressourcen umgehen und wie sich dies auf ihr Konsumverhalten auswirkt. Zur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014424924
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Recreational Drug Consumption : An Economic Perspective
Ramful Srivastava, Pratima - 2013
Introduction -- Literature Review -- An Overview of Recreational Drug Consumption in Australia -- Modelling Consumption of Individual Drugs -- Modelling Multiple Drug Use using a Multivariate Approach -- Modelling Alcohol Consumption by Levels using an Ordered Generalised Extreme Value (OGEV)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014017283
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Die Bedeutung von Wohnimmobilienpreisen für die Geldpolitik : Bedingte Effekte auf die Wohnimmobilien- und private Konsumnachfrage
Schützenmeister, Marcel - 2015
Marcel Schützenmeister zeigt in dem Buch theoretisch auf, unter welchen Bedingungen die Geldpolitik einen unmittelbaren Einfluss auf die Wohnimmobilien- und private Konsumnachfrage in einer Ökonomie ausübt. Eine weitere zentrale Erkenntnis ist, dass bei Erfüllung dieser Bedingungen die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019756
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Consumption Structure and Macroeconomics : Structural Change and the Relationship Between Inequality and Growth
Foellmi, Reto (contributor) - 2005
This book offers a novel perspective that allows to incorporate changing consumption and production structure into models of economic growth. Starting from the empirical observation that income and consumption structure are closely related, it develops a tractable theoretical framework which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520497
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Inequality, Poverty and Development in India : Focus on the North Eastern Region
De, Utpal Kumar (ed.); Pal, Manoranjan (ed.);  … - 2017
This book reviews the fulfillment of two Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely poverty and inequality, in the … Indian subcontinent. It examines the complex interplay among development, inequality and poverty in relation to corruption … improve livelihoods and standards of living through poverty reduction and promoting inclusive development along with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397654
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Poverty Alleviation in China : A Theoretical and Empirical Study
Yan, Kun - 2016
logic and core elements of China's poverty alleviation theory, and taking the Chinese experience of poverty alleviation …This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty … alleviation experience, and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviation cases. It also accurately presents the internal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397803
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Amartya Sen's Capability Approach : Theoretical Insights and Empirical Applications
Kuklys, Wiebke (contributor) - 2005
for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520489