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The Good Governance Indicators of the Millennium Challenge Account: How Many Dimensions Are Really Being Measured?
Knoll, Martin; Zloczysti, Petra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper assesses the validity of the perception-based governance indicators used by the US Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to 2009, we find that although the MCA purports to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277155
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The Good Governance Indicators of the Millennium Challenge Account: How Many Dimensions are Really Being Measured?
Knoll, Martin; Zloczysti, Petra - In: World Development 40 (2012) 5, pp. 900-915
This paper assesses the validity of the perception-based governance indicators used by the US Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to 2009, we find that although the MCA purports to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011052118
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The good governance indicators of the millennium challenge account: How many dimensions are really being measured?
Knoll, Martin; Zloczysti, Petra - 2011
This paper assesses the validity of the perception-based governance indicators used by the US Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to 2009, we find that although the MCA purports to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286626
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Foreign direct investment inflows and governance nexus : evidence from the United States, China, and Singapore
Kayani, Farrukh Nawaz; Gan, Christopher - In: Review of Pacific Basin financial markets and policies … 25 (2022) 4, pp. 1-18
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The decline in the nutritional status of the U.S. antebellum population at the onset of modern economic growth
A'Hearn, Brian; Komlos, John - 2015
The decline in the physical stature of the American population for more than a generation beginning with the birth cohorts of the early 1830s was brought about by a diminution in nutritional intake in spite of robust growth in average incomes. This occurred at the onset of modern economic growth...
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Macroeconomic impacts of U.S. farm and nutrition programs
Reimer, Jeffrey J.; Weerasooriya, Senal - In: Journal of agricultural and resource economics : JARE ; … 44 (2019) 3, pp. 624-645
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Nineteenth-century white physical activity, calories and life expectancy : nutrition, sanitation or medical intervention?
Carson, Scott Alan - In: Journal of interdisciplinary economics 28 (2016) 2, pp. 168-201
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The current limits of calorie labeling and the potential for population health impact
Breck, Andrew; Mijanovich, Tod; Weitzman, Beth C.; … - In: Journal of public policy & marketing : JPP & M ; an … 36 (2017) 2, pp. 227-235
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Nineteenth century black and mulatto physical activity, calories, and life expectancy
Carson, Scott Alan - 2014
rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition … expectancy was not likely due to improved nutrition. Physically active farmers had greater BMRs and received more calories per … day than workers in other occupations. Black diets, nutrition, and calories varied by residence, and rural blacks in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383237
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Food and nutrition security indicators : a review
Pangaribowo, Evita Hanie; Gerber, Nicolas; Torero, Máximo - 2013
In this paper, we review existing food and nutrition security indicators, discuss some of their advantages and … reference to the existing definitions of food and nutrition security (FNS), in particular as they have been agreed upon and … FNS indicators to quantify the impacts of various shocks and interventions on food and nutrition security outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209563