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Homepage, Levent Neyse; Brañas-Garza, Pablo - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

about how to make an accurate measurement in such a delicate task. Along this brief document we offer some concise guidance … of how to scan the hands using digital scanners and provide a comprehensive guideline to make a reliable measurement of … the 2D:4D. Furthermore, we point out the most common imaging and measurement errors. We also provide a number of hints …

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Economic Freedom Research: Some Comments and Suggestions

Bologna, Jamie; Hall, Joshua C. - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2014

The Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index is extensively used in academic research to show how economic freedom relates to a wide array of economic and social outcomes. Given this, it is important that researchers understand the goal of the index and how to properly utilize this index in...

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Estimation of Calorie Norms and Measurement of Food Intakes: Some Implications for the Magnitudes of the Prevalence of Undernutrition in India

MEENAKSHI, J. V.; VISWANATHAN, BRINDA - In: Indian Economic Review 48 (2013) 1, pp. 167-188

This paper highlights the significant measurement issues in the computation of the prevalence of inadequate calorie … inadequacy, as well as the measurement of intakes. Although energy norms for an individual are biologically determined their use …

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Irrigation and income-poverty alleviation: a comparative analysis of irrigation systems in developing Asia

Hussain, Intizar; Wijerathna, Deeptha - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2004

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The Measurement, Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy

Alford, Andrew R.; Clark, Richard A.; Griffith, Garry R. - In: AFBM Journal 05 (2008) 1/2

during Action Implementation. The target outcome for the Measurement, Monitoring and Evaluation (MME) Strategy is to design …

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How can we evaluate conservation auctions? Three Possible methods

Schilizzi, Steven - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012

By design, tenders are used when costs are unknown. But if costs are unknown, how can we evaluate the tenders, when their evaluation involves measuring their cost-effectiveness? We identify three approaches: theoretical, empirical and experimental. We first use experimental data to compare the...

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Revealed Comparative Advantage and Half-A-Century Competitiveness of Canadian Agriculture: A Case Study of Wheat, Beef and Pork Sectors

Sarker, Rakhal; Ratnesena, Shashini - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2014

While the competitiveness of the Canadian agri-food sector attracted significant research attention since the mid 1980s, no study has measured competitiveness using longitudinal data and determined empirically the drivers of competitiveness. This article contributes to the competitiveness...

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Analysis of the Factors that influence the financial literacy of young people studying in higher education

Alexandra Luksander, Dániel Béres, Katalin Huzdik, … - In: Public Finance Quarterly 59 (2014) 2, pp. 220-241

Financial literacy and the need to improve it are getting more attention as a result of the economic crisis. The effectiveness of the programmes that target the improvement of financial literacy depends on knowing what factors influence people’s financial knowledge. This is exactly the reason...

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A Standarised Accounting Model Of Intellectual Capital To Firms

Domingo, Nevado Pena; Víctor-Raúl, López Ruiz - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XIV (2014) 1, pp. 664-668

We develop a tool used on a sample of firms that makes possible to estimate, forecast and manage Intellectual Capital from an accounting information system. We started with a disaggregated model of intellectual capital and used subjective and objective indicators to measure its components. Then,...

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Using PDA consistency checks to increase the precision of profits and sales measurement in panels

Fafchamps, Marcel; Quinn, Simon; McKenzie, David; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

Personalized Digital Assistants (PDAs) and other forms of hardware needed to collect survey data electronically have become more affordable and powerful in recent years, leading to their use in a number of surveys in developing countries. Simple use of these devices can offer the prospect of...

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