This paper measures the impact of price changes on poverty using the Philippines as an example. The impact of price changes is captured by the price elasticity of poverty for three widely used poverty measures, namely, headcount ratio, poverty gap ratio, and severity of poverty. An empirically...

An effort is made to discuss some of the related issues in this paper by identifying the socio-economic correlates of poverty in rural areas of Pakistan. This characterization of poverty is expected to yield insights regarding the link between incidence of poverty and capacity of the poor to...

The major aim of this chapter is to extend the poverty studies of the sixties into the seventies, it also re-examines the evidence on rural poverty for the sixties, supplementing the results with new evidence where available, mainly to see whether the conclusions reached by earlier authors were...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for assessing the degree of internationalization of undergraduate, Master’s and doctoral business programmes with the aid of complex indicators designed to capture the vast array of characteristics displayed by these programmes and...

Customer Equity Management (CEM) is not only a method to analyze future customers’ behavior but also a segmentation tool for identifying customers that deliver a great value to a company and those that should be eliminated from a company’s customer portfolio. One problem companies in...

The authors update previous findings and add new insights on the East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1992-2013). The results indicate that (1) part of the raw East-West gap is due to differences in household income and...

The relationship between human resource and economic development has been widely recognised at all level. Human resource development is conceived to be an integral part of the process of economic development of any region. Thus development in the quality of human being especially of the working...

There is nothing more important to a professor than finding answers to the question “How do my students learn?” This is true because teaching cannot be separated from learning. Indeed, teaching is the “art and science” of helping students learn, and our success as professors depends on...

The current context of the extended economic crisis and that of Romania’s quality as member of the European Union shows that the post-adherence funds can be used in order to save, ameliorate and solve a high range of development problems, the aim being that of achieving the development level...