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Alipio, Mark - 2020

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Measuring residential water affordability and basic water needs in South Africa

Mgwele, Akhona; Girma, Hiywot Menker; Dikgang, Johane - 2021

Designing a desirable block tariff structure for residential water use has been a challenging task for regulated utilities. In this study, we investigated whether the existing increasing block tariff design addresses the issue of affordability, especially for lower-income groups. Using the South...

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The Economic Theory and the Portuguese Manufactured Industry

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - 2011

This work aims to compare the Keynesian theory, namely by the Verdoorn Law, the neoclassical theory, by the absolute convergence, and the geographic concentration, by the Rybczynski equation, explanations about the different manufactured industry of the Portuguese regions (NUTs II), for the...

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Women empowerment in Portugal: Realities, constraints, policies, strategies and initiatives

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - 2012

In Portugal we have yet problems with disadvantaged groups, in some cases because the social conditions, in other cases because the economic conditions and in another situations from the familiar and physical circumstances. This context sometimes is worse in the rural areas, because has other...

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Women empowerment in Portuguese rural municipalities: Outcomes from a project

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - 2012

The work presented here is based in a set of outcomes from a project developed in four rural municipalities of the center of Portugal, with the names Vouzela, Mangualde, Seia and Guarda. This project was supported by the National Support Reference Framework (NSRF) and had the objective of the...

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Effects on women empowerment of awareness raising

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - 2012

This work is based on a project developed by the ACCIG (Association of the Culture and Knowledge for the Gender Equality) for some rural municipalities in the Center of Portugal. This project was financed by national funds and by funds from the European Union through the NSRF (National Support...

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Tourism in the Portuguese Rural Areas

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - 2013

The tourism in the rural areas is an important contribution to the local economies and an additional income for the traditional local activities as the agricultural sector. Some traditional rural activities, as the agriculture, sometimes and in some locations are not sufficient to provide an...

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Spatial analysis of the tourism supply, in Portugal, at NUTs III level

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - 2013

The tourism in Portugal has been an important contribution to the economic development of the country, namely in zones where is difficult to implement others activities, specifically the manufacturing. The objective of this work is to analyze, for the period 2002-2011, with spatial econometric...

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Rethinking Policy Evaluation – Do Simple Neural Nets Bear Comparison with Synthetic Control Method?

Steinkraus, Arne - 2018

With the advent of big data in economics machine learning algorithms become more and more appealing to economists. Despite some attempts of establishing artificial neural networks in in the early 1990s, only little is known about their ability of estimating causal effects in policy evaluation....

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What the Keynesian theory said about Portugal?

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - 2012

With this work it is intended to analyze the contributions of the Keynesian theory to the explanation of the regional evolution in Portugal. Considering the Keynesian models in different perspectives and taking into account the Verdoorn (1949) relationship it is did data and econometric analysis...

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