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Determining Social Capital by Social Accounting
Friedrich, Peter - Instytut Badañ Gospodarczych (IBG) - 2015
Although social capital has been often debated in the last 20 years, there is a widely accepted definition missing and the approaches to measure its size are not very developed. Therefore, the definitions of social capital are stated and analysed, whether they are appropriately designed also for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166173
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The Expected Well-being of Urban Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Johannesburg
Greyling, Talita - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2015
The influx of asylum seekers and refugees from across Africa to democratic South Africa has increased significantly. The aim of this paper is to determine the factors that influence the ‘expected well-being’ of this unique group. ‘Expected well-being’ is an important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204515
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The Great Happiness Moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
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How robust are estimated country welfare? : an investigation of welfare ranking, based on indices calculated using random weights.
Olsson, Michael - 2010
Sweden is ranked at 7th place. With random weights Sweden is ranked as high as fifth place in 5.1 per cent of the cases, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011562806
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Building composite indicators with unweighted-TOPSIS
Liem, Vicente; Pérez-Gladish, Blanca - In: IEEE transactions on engineering management : EM 70 (2023) 5, pp. 1871-1880
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Abolishing GDP
van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2007
Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325488
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Human Development in Africa: A Long-Run Perspective
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2011
the UNDP's HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those …
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World Human Development: 1870-2007
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2013
How has wellbeing evolved over time and across regions? How does the West compare to the Rest? What explains their differences? These questions are addressed using an historical index of human development. A sustained improvement in wellbeing has taken place since 1870. The absolute gap between...
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Convergence of Human Development Index: Case study of foreign direct investment in ASEAN
Kaukab, M. Elfan; Surwandono, Surwandono - In: Business: Theory and Practice 22 (2021) 1, pp. 12-17
This article examines the role of bilateral FDI and income convergence in affecting HDI increase in countries with … middle HDI in ASEAN. The ASEAN Economic Community has been developing and it is expected that the gaps between nations can be … covered. This article explores how economic intervention through HDI and income convergence can boost HDI improvement. The …
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Abolishing GDP
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372528