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Spain; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
Spain’s housing boom was supported by rapid economic expansion, strong employment growth, an immigration boom, and low real interest rates. With the abrupt drying up of funding since mid-2007, these factors have eroded quickly. Through 2010, employment and value added in construction are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243185
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Bhutan; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
This paper discusses Bhutan’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). The Royal Government of Bhutan has initiated the PRSP process as part of broader ongoing efforts to combat poverty. The main objective of the PRSP process is to strengthen the strategic framework for poverty reduction,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252728
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Demographic Transition in the Middle East; Implications for Growth, Employment, and Housing
Bhattacharya, Rina; Yousef, Tarik; Dhonte, Pierre - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
The working age population is expected to grow faster in the Middle East than in any other region in the world between now and 2015—rising annually by 2.7 percent, or 10 million people. This demographic explosion presents the region with a major challenge in terms of providing jobs, incomes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264176
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The Demographic Dividend; Evidence From the Indian States
Mody, Ashoka; Aiyar, Shekhar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Large cohorts of young adults are poised to add to the working-age population of developing economies. Despite much interest in the consequent growth dividend, the size and circumstances of the potential gains remain under-explored. This study makes progress by focusing on India, which will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876597
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Índice de vulnerabilidade das famílias (2000-2010): Resultados
Furtado, Bernardo Alves - 2013
' vulnerabilities derived from questionnaires' answers of census data for 2000 and 2010. In doing so this paper fulfills the task of … made from the micro data of the census sample interviews. The methodology used is by and large detailed in the literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330876
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Der Zensus - Ein Bericht zu Tradition und Moderne / A Report on some Traditions and Recent Developments of the Census
Wiegert, Rolf - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 219 (1999) 5-6, pp. 712-728
Summary Just 13 years passed away since a complete census was hold in Germany. The struggling discussions in the German … public about the last census in 1987 had a long lasting effect on politics that there was no desire to renew this debate. In … 1997 EUROSTAT advised the members of the European Union to hold a census about the year 2001 under equal conditions. German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014608738
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Regional marriage patterns and trends in Northern Sudan
Abdelrahman, Abdelrahman Ibrahim - 1989
Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438848
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Using a census to assess the reliability of a national household survey for migration research: the case of Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Kelly, Elish - 2008
research may be inaccurate. In this paper, we use the Irish Census of 2006 to assess the reliability of the profile of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268535
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Using a census to assess the reliability of a national household survey for migration research: The case of Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Kelly, Elish - 2008
research may be inaccurate. In this paper, we use the Irish Census of 2006 to assess the reliability of the profile of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277706
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Schätzung regionaler Einkommensindikatoren unter Transformationen in Abwesenheit von Populations-Mikrodaten
Würz, Nora - In: WISTA - Wirtschaft und Statistik 76 (2024) 2, pp. 107-116
Für Deutschland und andere entwickelte Länder werden Methoden zur Schätzung von sozioökonomischen Indikatoren auf räumlich disaggregierter Ebene benötigt, ohne dabei Populations-Mikrodaten zu verwenden, die meist nicht öffentlich verfügbar sind. Viele sozioökonomische Indikatoren, zum...
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