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Rethinking the policy objectives of development aid: From economic growth to conflict prevention
Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko - 2007
The current consensus objective of development aid in the international community is to reduce poverty in general and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in particular. In addition, the dominant view identifies economic growth as the principal means to this end. But the policy...
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Needs vs expediency: Poverty reduction and social development in post-conflict countries
Addison, Tony; Gisselquist, Rachel; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2015
the possible tensions - including those around the need to strengthen and sustain peace itself. …
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UN common country assessment update for the Philippines
Navarro, Adoracion M.; Reyes, Celia M.; Francisco, Kris A. - 2021
outcomes under three pillars, namely, people, prosperity and planet, and peace. The report dissects the coronavirus disease … well as incorporate the timeliness of the policy responses; and for the peace pillar, the continued cooperation between the … national government and the Bangsamoro government in ensuring that the recently gained peace dividends are protected and …
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The Effects of Mobility on Neighbourhood Social Ties
Knies, Gundi - 2009
This research examines the strength of people's ties with close neighbours and the sensitivity thereof to changes in residential mobility, access to modes of public and private transport, and changes in the availability of modern communications technologies using the German Socio-economic Panel...
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Between-Person Disparities in the Progression of Late-Life Well-Being
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Fauth, Elizabeth; Schupp, … - 2009
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the...
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Statistical Problems and Solutions in Onomastic Research: Exemplified by a Comparison of Given Name Distributions in Germany throughout the 20th Century
Huschka, Denis; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
The German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) offers the rare opportunity to look at patterns of given names amongst a representative sample of more than 50,000 people born since 1900. This article develops an exemplary picture of typical frequency distributions for given names and their...
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On the origin of r-concavity and related concepts
Balogh, Tamás L.; Ewerhart, Christian - 2015
In a less widely known contribution, Béla Martos (1966, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) introduced a generalized notion of concavity that is closely related to what is nowadays known as r-concavity in the operations research literature, and that is identical to what is nowadays known as...
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Virtual Assisted Self Interviewing (VASI): An Expansion of Survey Data Collection Methods to the Virtual Worlds by Means of VDCI
Bell, Mark W.; Castronova, Edward; Wagner, Gert G. - 2008
Changes in communication technology have allowed for the expansion of data collection modes in survey research. The proliferation of the computer has allowed the creation of web and computer assisted auto-interview data collection modes. Virtual worlds are a new application of computer...
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Neuroökonomie und Neuromarketing: Neurale Korrelate strategischer Entscheidungen
Hain, Cornelia; Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, Marco; Kenning, Peter - 2007
Die Bedeutung von Emotionen und Affekten bei ökonomischen Entscheidungen wird seit mehreren Jahren in der ökonomischen Literatur diskutiert (z. B. Rabin, 1998). Eine Erklärung der empirischen Evidenz in diesem Bereich, die über eine bloß phänomenologische Ebene hinausgeht, verlangt eine...
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Virtual Assisted Self Interviewing (VASI): An expansion of survey data collection methods to the virtual worlds by means of VDCI
Bell, Mark W.; Castronova, Edward; Wagner, Gert G. - 2009
Changes in communication technology have allowed for the expansion of data collection modes in survey research. The proliferation of the computer has allowed the creation of web and computer assisted auto-interview data collection modes. Virtual worlds are a new application of computer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285417