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In this paper we employ World Values Survey measures of life satisfaction as though they were direct measures of … life satisfaction is more closely linked to several World Bank measures of the quality of government than to real per …
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In this paper we employ World Values Survey measures of life satisfaction as though they were direct measures of … life satisfaction is more closely linked to several World Bank measures of the quality of government than to real per …
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Governance indicators are now widely used as tools for conducting development dialogue, allocating external assistance and influencing foreign direct investment. This paper argues that available governance indicators are not suitable for these purposes as they do not conceptualize governance and...
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The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies depending on how the two terms (of a political discourse) are defined, that when the definition of one term encompasses distinctive features of the other we find that governance and...
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Welfare economic analysis of health issues and policies can provide well balanced orderings of the state of the economy. This paper provides an innovative framework for welfare economic analysis of the relationships between economic growth, health outcomes and social welfare for both a...
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There is great variation in views on and treatment of minorities such as gay men across the world. We are the first to …-country dataset covering 110 countries, the Gay Happiness Index. It covers how gays perceive public opinion about them, how they … public opinion and behavior in a pro-gay direction, while religion and living in a post-communist country exert a negative …
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nations. Using gross bilateral international migration flows and a discrete choice model in which everyone in the world …
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There is great variation in views on and treatment of minorities such as gay men across the world. We are the first to …-country dataset covering 110 countries, the Gay Happiness Index. It covers how gays perceive public opinion about them, how they … public opinion and behavior in a pro-gay direction, while religion and living in a post-communist country exert a negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220484