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Why Governments Failed to Realize Prosperity and How to Structure a Sound Economic System
Kababji, Maher Diab - 2016
Happiness sums up people's attainments from living. Economics is concerned largely with prosperity as the material contributor to happiness. Prosperity is a relative term rather than an absolute one. Prosperity level can be defined as the feasible material standard of living that an economy can...
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Corruption Prevalence in SADC Regional Bloc
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2021
The journey to harness corruption in SADC states remains a challenge even after decades of preaching effects of corruption. Corruption derails success and development, and its costs are borne by the citizens. Corruption is found in the award of contracts, promotion of staff, dispensation of...
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The Role of the Financial Sector in Zimbabwe, Central Banking and its Social and Economic Impacts
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2021
The study seeks to provide a critique of the theoretical framework of economic governance as it relates to the financial sector in Zimbabwe and identify institutions in the financial sector and explain their roles. It also seeks to unpack the concepts related to the banking or the financial...
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Measuring Genuine Progress : An Example from the UN Millennium Development Goals Project
Fisher, William P. - 2021
Proposals for incorporating information on the quality of human, social, and environmental conditions in more authentic and comprehensive versions of the Gross National Product (GNP) or Gross Domestic Product (GDP) date back to the foundations of econometrics.Typically treated as external to...
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Measuring economic well-being and sustainability : a practical agenda for the present and the future
Ven, Peter J. van de - In: Eurostat review on national accounts and macroeconomic … (2019) 1, pp. 7-41
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely used indicator from the system of national accounts. Although often interpreted as an indicator for (economic) well-being, it first and foremost monitors economic activity, and falls short of reflecting broader measures which try to capture...
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The UK Future Jobs Fund: The Labour Party’s Adoption of the Job Guarantee
Ali, Tanweer - Post Keynesian Economics Study Group - PKSG - 2013
earlier projects, and utilizing the growth of smaller community-based projects – the Intermediate Labour Markets, or ILMs …
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Literature review on fundamental concepts and definitions, objectives and policy goals as well as instruments relevant for socio-ecological transition
Dimitrova, Anna; Hollan, Katarina; Laster, Daphne; … - WWWforEurope - 2013
new socio-ecological growth path in Europe. The new path underlines the need to guarantee Welfare as a broad universal … new European growth and development strategy is necessary and feasible, enabling a socio-ecological transition to high … contribution to the global common goods like climate stability. Thus the project’s central goals are to identify the forces and …
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La reducción de la pobreza y el crecimiento económico ambientalmente sostenible: el caso de América Latina y el Caribe
Yamada, Gustavo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2002
La reducción de la pobreza, que afecta a más de un tercio de la población en América Latina y el Caribe, es un objetivo prioritario de las políticas públicas. A partir de un breve diagnóstico de la pobreza, este artículo discute los elementos de una estrategia integral para reducirla,...
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Ziele und Zielkonflikte der Wirtschaftspolitik und Ansätze für Indikatoren und Politikberatung
Dullien, Sebastian; Treeck, Till van - Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), … - 2012
Ein integrativer Politikansatz zielt auf die Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen in einer Vielzahl von Dimensionen bei Bewahrung der natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen ab, und diese Dimensionen müssen in eine sinnvolle moderne Wohlstandsdefinition einfließen. Ein moderner Wohlstandsbegriff ist viel...
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The Conflictive Relationship between Satisfaction and Income
Chaparro, Juan Camilo; Lora, Eduardo A. - 2011
countries), raising doubts regarding the well-known Easterlin Paradox, a new paradox arises: "unhappy growth," where faster … growth rates are accompanied by lower levels of satisfaction. The losses of satisfaction associated with growth are more …
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