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Drug-related crime and poverty in South Africa
Cheteni, Priviledge; Mah, Gisele; Yohane, Yohane Khamfula - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-16
This paper argues that the link between poverty and drug-related crime might be spurious. We take an empirical approach to investigate the causality and plausibility of this link. Firstly, we regress crime against envisaged explanatory variables in order to estimate the contribution of poverty...
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Aplication of Minkowski's metric in measuring changes of concentration of value added in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting sectors
Binderman, Zbigniew; Borkowski, Bolesław; Szcze̢sny, … - In: Acta scientiarum polonorum / Oeconomia : czasopismo … 14 (2015) 1, pp. 17-28
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An analysis on urban competitiveness of global cities and its effect on economic growth
Cho, Jaeho; Kim, Jong-Sung - In: Journal of international trade & commerce 15 (2019) 5, pp. 21-36
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Local concentrations
Bavaud, François - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 87 (2008) 3, pp. 357-370
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Calculating the concentration index when income is grouped
Clarke, Philip M.; Van Ourti, Tom - In: Journal of health economics 29 (2010) 1, pp. 151-157
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Ignorance, lotteries, and measures of economic inequality
Bennett, Christopher J.; Zitikis, Ričardas - In: Journal of economic inequality 13 (2015) 2, pp. 309-316
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The Gini-Exposure index for measuring segregation in networks
Andreoli, Francesco - In: Rivista italiana degli economisti : the journal of the … 19 (2014) 1, pp. 129-167
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An alternative measure of economic inequality under the Lorenz curve framework in analogue to the index of refraction of geometrical optics
Majumder, Amlan - 2015
Index of refraction is found to be a good measure of economic inequality within the Lorenz curve framework. It has … of wealth or income in different strata. In line with this analogy, first I compute refractive index for each stratum …. While an index value of less than 1.00 represents an ‘anomalous refraction' in optics, such a condition of inequality …
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Predictors of various facets of sustainability of nations : the role of cultural and economic factors
Roy, Abhijit; Goll, Irene - In: International business review : the official journal of … 23 (2014) 5, pp. 849-861
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Analysis of Health and Activity Limitation Index (HALex), its distribution, and its distribution by income in Japan, 1989 and 1998
Asada, Yukiko (contributor); Ōkusa, Yasushi (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
two ways: (1) construction of a health state measure in the CSLC equivalent to the Health and Activity Limitation Index …
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