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Inequality, social conflict and unions in America

Lettieri, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

A comparison of the 2007-08 crisis with that of 1929 showed its extreme gravity, but it also may have implied that the old harmful mistakes would not be repeated. After four years, the crisis has not been solved and it even threatens to worsen. Neo-conservative Republicans claim that this is...

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Redefining the Economical Power of Nations

Kiss, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper is (over the formulas) self explaining . The measurement of economies no longer by GDP alone, but by an Index that includes other important factors as well, a So-cial factors relativized GDP. This index cuts out the part of the GDP that is long term fro-zen up by social transfers...

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Recoupling economic and social prosperity

Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020

This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...

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The Six Key Countries Driving Global Islamic Finance Growth

Lackmann, Bedi - 2018

Six countries; Qatar, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey (denoted by the acronym QISMUT) are considered the potential primary force of the future international development of Islamic finance. These countries, with both expertise and potential for growth in...

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Globalisation, inequality and health

Borghesi, Simone; Vercelli, Alessandro - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 4 (2004) 1/2/3, pp. 89-108

inequality in the globalisation-health relationship. A few policy implications emerging from the analysis are also discussed …As we suggested in a previous work (Borghesi and Vercelli, 2003), the process of globalisation affects the … sustainability of development mainly through three channels: economic growth, inequality and environmental degradation. This …

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Working Paper: Redefining the Economical Power of Nations

Kiss, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The measurement of economies no longer by GDP alone, but by an Index that includes other important factors as well, a Social factors relativized GDP. Social factors relativized GDP: GDP – GDP x GINI = K_Index Written differently: (1 – GINI) x GDP = K_Index Inflation indexed Version: (1 –...

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Charting Income Inequality: The Lorenz Curve

Bellù, Lorenzo G.; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality … and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz Curves to represent inequality is also provided. It highlights …

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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Lorenz Curves

Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper illustrates how Lorenz Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. After highlighting some drawbacks of using specific functional forms of the Social...

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Going Beyond GDP – But How Far?

Fleurbaey, Marc; Fouquin, Michel; Gaulier, Guillaume - In: La Lettre du CEPII (2011) 312

Although economists have long stressed the limitations of using GDP to evaluate standards of living, the debate was recently reignited by the publication of the Stiglitz report. In 2006, the CEPII proposed an indicator incorporating certain social data items, in terms of equivalent incomes, such...

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Equality of opportunity and other equity principles in the context of developing countries

Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005

I propose a personal reading of some theories of social justice at a moment when the issue of equality or equity appears to be back on the ‘development agenda’. Nowadays the term equity tends to be most often associated with the equality of opportunity principle. After having briefly...

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