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Using Personal Car Register for Measuring Economic Inequality in Countries with a Large Share of Shadow Economy: Evidence for Latvia
Dombrovsky, Vyacheslav; Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
We suggest to use information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic … inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars …. Our main finding is that the extent of household economic inequality in Latvia is much larger than officially assumed. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293728
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Using Personal Car Register for Measuring Economic Inequality in Countries with a Large Share of Shadow Economy: Evidence for Latvia
Dombrovsky, Vyacheslav; Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; … - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2011
We suggest to use information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic … inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars …. Our main finding is that the extent of household economic inequality in Latvia is much larger than officially assumed. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294287
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Colonial Origins of the Informal Economy on the Gazelle Peninsula
Conroy, John D. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
This paper is concerned with the accommodation to the market economy of Tolai people, indigenous to the Gazelle Peninsula in Papua New Guinea and regarded as one of the most prosperous and enterprising groups in the country. 'The market' was introduced to Tolai by German (and later, Australian)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904348
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La performativité des sciences économiques
Muniesa, Fabian; Callon, Michel - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), MINES ParisTech - 2008
Provides some theoretical developments on the topic of the performativity of economics.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081419
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Social Capital
Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2004
This paper surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642418
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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor. Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects? On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in African Societies and Black Diasporas in La...
Kohnert, Dirk - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2006
The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688717
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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor: Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects? On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in African Societies and Black Diasporas in La...
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616660
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Some theoretical problems of informal economy
Muca, Brunilda; Doraci, Galantina - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research 8 (2014) 2, pp. 108-115
The concept of informality started to materialize back in the early 1970s. Though it was a foreign notion for many, it still continues to develop nowadays. The debate over informal economy still persists, many believe that informality is linked to poorer countries and economies, and that it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105643
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Consumer Behaviour towards Women’s Cooperative Dairy (Swakrushi Milk): A Field Based Study in Karimnagar District, India
Rena, Ravinder; Vadde, Suresh - In: KASBIT Journal of Management & Social Science 3 (2010) December, pp. 25-44
The main aim of this study is to examine the consumers’ behaviour towards milk consumption. The specific objectives are to know the regular source of milk, satisfaction to quality of milk products and their price; payment system, per capita consumption of milk and to provide implications for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010639394
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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481840