The generalised Lorenz criterion is widely used for making welfare comparisons within and across countries on the basis of their income distributions. Experimental studies have challenged this way of proceeding by showing that the principle of transfers, which underlies the generalised Lorenz...

Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world. Poverty remains high at 43 percent of the population subsist on less than United States (U.S.) $1.25 per day (2010). Bangladesh achieved several millennium development goal (MDG) targets in education, health, and poverty...

The main aim of this paper is to investigate some policies that would influence people to drive fewer miles and to buy smaller cars, use better pollution control equipment, and cleaner fuel. An attempt has been made to quote the vehicle tax rates of Bangladesh. Despite technological advances,...

Resource reallocation problems are common in real life and therefore gain an increasing interest in Computer Science and Economics. Such problems consider agents living in a society and negotiating their resources with each other in order to improve the welfare of the population. In many studies...

<p>Dr. W. Robert Brazelton divides this work into three parts and offers an analytical assessment of its value within the American social welfare realm.</p>

Short term political considerations, bureaucratic inertia, ideological differences, and most importantly- financial constraints, have created a situation where effective slum reform has floundered. This paper concentrates on the city-state of Delhi and puts forth the argument that a successful...

In this paper we endogenize the objective functions of the regions as well as their decision to provide public investment in a model of competition for foreign owned mobile capital. We demonstrate that the competing regions can `restrict race-to-the-bottom' in tax rates by deviating away from...

This paper quantifies the benefits that accrue to children from having mothers who are literate. It does so by measuring the influence of literacy, after controiling for other factors,on the following indicators of child welfare: male and female infant deaths; male and female child deaths; male...

We investigate a differential oligopoly games with sticky prices and environmental externality. The external effect is determined by sales. We compute the socially optimal allocation, where a benevolent planner sets production plans so as to maximize the discounted social welfare, in both...

It is a fact that the phenomenon of immigration constitutes, during the last years, the view of a new social and economic reality for the societies of most western European countries. Greece has received for the first time, during the 1990s, thousands of economic immigrants who appear not only...