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Lights, camera...income!: Estimating poverty using national accounts, survey means, and lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2014
In this paper, we try to understand whether measures of GDP per capita taken from the national accounts or measures of mean income or consumption derived from household surveys better proxy for true income per capita. We propose a data-driven method to assess the relative quality of GDP per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340979
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Resource Rents and Economic Growth: Economic and institutional development in countries with a high share of income from the sale of natural resources. Analysis and recommendations...
Kaznacheev, Peter - 2013
characterise the role of natural resources in economic development. They certainly do not set a positive tone for a constructive … stories of economic development among resource abundant countries. This report presents the argument that resource economies … superior results in economic growth and social development. To support that argument, we have used empirical evidence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379767
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An uncertainty approach to modelling climate change risk in South Africa
Cullis, James; Alton, Theresa; Arndt, Channing; … - 2015
This study represents the first attempt at an integrated approach to assessing the potential impacts of climate change on the national economy of South Africa via a number of (but not necessarily all) impact channels. The study focuses on outcomes by about 2050. The results show the multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418655
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Feeling the Heat: Temperature, Physiology & the Wealth of Nations
Heal, Geoffrey; Park, Jisung - 2014
social welfare has important implications for both the economics of climate change and comparative development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333459
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Economic growth evens-out happiness: Evidence from six surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Fléche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the very unhappy and the perfectly happy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334229
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Infrastructure and urbanization in the People's Republic of China
Li, Zhigang - 2017
construction? How can we evaluate the performance of infrastructure development? How and to what extent should the government be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688655
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A two-thirds rate of success: Polish transformation and economic development, 1989 - 2008
Kolodko, Grzegorz W. - 2009
Progress in achieving institutional changes should be evaluated through the prism of their influence on the development … systemic change and socioeconomic development, GDP growth over the periods considered could have increased by more than half …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273403
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274556
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274814
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An empirical study of the relationships between CO2 emissions, economic growth and openness
Choi, Eunho; Heshmati, Almes; Cho, Yongsung - 2010
development stages from industrialized to newly industrialized and emerging market economies. The environmental consequences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278434