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Measuring food security using respondents' perception of food consumption adequacy
Migotto, Mauro; Davis, Benjamin; Caretto, Gero; Beegle, … - 2006
: Albania, Indonesia, Madagascar and Nepal. Simple descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients, contingency tables and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284755
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A framework for incorporating environmental indicators to the measurement of human well-being
Zaim, Osman - 2005
This study, relying on an economic-theoretical approach to index numbers, proposes a framework for incorporating environmental indicators to the measurement of human well-being. Furthermore this study also proposes an improvement index which alleviates the well-known deficiency of across-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284545
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Globalization, local ecosystems, and the rural poor
Aggarwal, Rimjhim M. - 2005
ecological dynamics, and consequently, on poverty. – poverty ; globalization ; environment ; ecosystem resilience ; institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327266
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Tax policy reforms in Nigeria
Odusola, Ayodele - 2006
Nigeria is governed by a federal system, hence its fiscal operations also adhere to the same principle, a fact which has serious implications on how the tax system is managed. The country’s tax system is lopsided, and dominated by oil revenue. It is also characterized by unnecessarily complex,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284565
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Was bringen kommunale Gebietsreformen? Kausale Evidenz zu Hoffnungen, Risiken und alternativen Instrumenten
Blesse, Sebastian; Rösel, Felix - 2017
höhere Leistungsfähigkeit der Verwaltung. In diesem Beitrag geben Sebastian Blesse und Felix Rösel einen Überblick über die … bestehende kausale Evidenz zu den Effekten von Gebietsreformen auf öffentliche Ausgaben, Effizienz und Qualität der Verwaltung …: Die Bürger sind weniger zufrieden mit der Demokratie und gehen seltener zur Wahl, und die Ungleichheit zwischen den …
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Energy Biased Technical Change: A CGE Analysis
Löschel, Andreas; Otto, Vincent M.; Dellink, Rob B. - 2005
This paper studies energy bias in technical change. For this purpose, we develop a computable general equilibrium model that builds on endogenous growth models. The model explicitly captures links between energy, the rate and direction of technical change, and the economy. We derive the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297442
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China's development strategy and energy security: Growth, distribution and regional cooperation
Khan, Haider A. - 2008
This paper analyses both global and regional approaches to solving problems of energy security and ecological imbalance by addressing specifically the problems of China's energy security. China's growing energy dependence has become a major concern for both economic and national security...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273437
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Individual Determinants of Social Fairness Assessments: The Case of Germany
Hennighausen, Tanja; Heinemann, Friedrich; Bischoff, Ivo - 2008
: first fairness preferences, second beliefs on the sources of economic success and the functioning of democracy and third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298074
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Klimapolitik zwischen Markt, Deliberation und Hegemonie: Der Emissionshandel und das Politische
Frick, Marc; Huwe, Vera - 2020
Das Instrument des Emissionshandelssystems (EHS) wird von Umweltökonom:innen an prominenter Stelle zur Bewältigung der ökologischen Krisen sowohl im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs als auch in der Politikberatung empfohlen. Wir arbeiten drei implizite normative Prämissen des Lehrbuchmodells eines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313235
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Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: Theory and evidence
Krieger, Tommy - 2022
We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model … further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348848