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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...
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The Six Key Countries Driving Global Islamic Finance Growth
Lackmann, Bedi - 2018
Six countries; Qatar, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey (denoted by the acronym QISMUT) are considered the potential primary force of the future international development of Islamic finance. These countries, with both expertise and potential for growth in...
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Inequality and democracy
Soci, Anna - 2019
The paper is about the political consequences of increasing economic inequality in Western economies. Political … connections between economic inequality and democracy, however, are not easy to detect and the body of literature is not so large … and to offer some hints on the political relevance of the inequality consequences, if any, on democracy. …
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Status inequality, moral disengagement and violence
Falk, Armin - 2017
the role of status inequality on violence suggests an important societal cost of economic and social inequalities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709802
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Status inequality, moral disengagement and violence
Falk, Armin - 2017
the role of status inequality on violence suggests an important societal cost of economic and social inequalities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704382
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The fair-minded rich and healthy? : (youth) unemployment, inequality and fairness concerns in preferences for redistribution
Armbruster, Stephanie - 2020
Do rising inequality and youth unemployment aect preferences for redistribution? Using country-level European survey … data from 2002 to 2015, I show that changes in market inequality and the rise of (youth) unemployment increase preferences … market income inequality and (youth) unemployment. The preferences of the relatively rich and healthy are more responsive to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195792
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Status inequality, moral disengagement and violence
Falk, Armin - 2017
the role of status inequality on violence suggests an important societal cost of economic and social inequalities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700465
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Chapter 35 Equity in health
Williams, Alan; Cookson, Richard - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1863-1910). 2000
Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a person may expect to enjoy over his or her lifetime....
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A comparison between shale gas in China and unconventional fuel development in the United States : health, water and environmental risks
Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013
China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...
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Climate Dreaming : Negative Emissions, Risk Transfer, and Irreversibility
Shue, Henry - 2017
The Integrated Assessment Models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rely heavily on negative emissions technologies [NETs] for scenarios that keep global temperature rise to 2° C or lower. One favoured NET is bio-energy combined with carbon capture and storage [BECCS]. It is...
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