wyszukanych pozycji: 18
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Econometric Analysis in Poverty Research: With Case Studies from Developing Countries
ISBN: 9783631597101 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 129 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Poverty and inequality persist in many regions of the developing world. This may be due mainly to an ineffective targeting of policies to address the root causes of poverty. Sustainable policy interventions are in need of reliable concepts of poverty and of a thorough understanding of the underlying mechanism that lead to such deprivation. The three essays of this book add to the debate concerning appropriate statistical tools in empirical development economics. The work proposes specific methodologies to analyze the extent of poverty and its underlying factors based on recent household...
Poverty and inequality persist in many regions of the developing world. This may be due mainly to an ineffective targeting of policies to address the ...
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314,23 |
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Empirical Analysis of Participation Patterns in Microfinancial Markets: The Cases of Ghana and Sri Lanka
ISBN: 9783631632383 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This book contributes to the empirical literature on households participation in microfinancial services in developing countries. First, it estimates simultaneously the participation in microinsurance schemes and other financial services on household survey data from Ghana. Second, it analyzes the household s cumulative participation in microfinancial services using household survey data from Sri Lanka. Next, the study focuses on the question whether household s participation in micro life insurance in Sri Lanka is motivated by the desire to leave bequests. At last, it investigates different...
This book contributes to the empirical literature on households participation in microfinancial services in developing countries. First, it estimates ...
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314,23 |
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Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Colombia
ISBN: 9783631603864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This book analyses the distributional effects of economic growth on different dimensions of poverty in Colombia. It provides a microeconomic perspective on how economic growth affected poverty and inequality at the household level, as well as a macroeconomic perspective on the effects of growth on regional living standards. The study incorporates recent discussions on multidimensional analysis of well-being and goes beyond traditional income based measures, thereby contributing to the ongoing research on how to measure pro-poor growth and on the importance of incorporating different...
This book analyses the distributional effects of economic growth on different dimensions of poverty in Colombia. It provides a microeconomic perspecti...
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414,41 |
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Empirical Analysis of Poverty Dynamics: With Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 9783631573730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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283,80 |
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Malaysia Und Indonesien: Wirtschaftliche Entwicklungsstrategien in Zwei Vielvoelkerstaaten
ISBN: 9783631574836 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2008 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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349,74 |
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A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic and Human Development
ISBN: 9783631587935 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This book contributes to the empirical literature on economic and human development from five different perspectives: the first chapter provides a new statistical test for bimodality of densities with an application to income data. The second chapter analyzes the worlds cross-country distribution of income and challenges the so called Twin Peaks-claim. The third chapter focuses on the world income distribution and resulting implications for poverty reduction, pro-poor growth and the evolution of global inequality. The fourth chapter estimates the welfare effects of recently negotiated...
This book contributes to the empirical literature on economic and human development from five different perspectives: the first chapter provides a new...
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335,54 |
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Employment, Well-Being and Gender: Dynamics and Interactions in Emerging Asia
ISBN: 9783631623022 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This book examines welfare effects of gender-related inequalities in Korean households and labor markets. It uses subjective well-being data to show that reductions of excessive levels of working hours did improve family well-being in the past decade. Moreover, benefits from major life events like marriage can differ greatly by sex if traditional gender roles dominate and women contribute much less than men to household earnings. Furthermore, the study examines dynamics in rural East Asian economies and their impact on individual welfare outcomes. Both land redistribution and...
This book examines welfare effects of gender-related inequalities in Korean households and labor markets. It uses subjective well-being data to show t...
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278,47 |
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Institutions, Inequality and Development
ISBN: 9783631605417 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The book focuses on the linkages between institutions, inequality and development. It analyzes formal political institutions, in particular the relationship between democracy and human development. It also centers on informal social institutions leading to the exclusion of population groups such as women and indigenous people. To measure these institutions in the case of gender inequality the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and its five subindices are proposed and for the indigenous -disadvantage- the indigenous dummy is used. The dissertation shows that formal and informal...
The book focuses on the linkages between institutions, inequality and development. It analyzes formal political institutions, in particular the relati...
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364,19 |
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Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks: Three Case Studies from Latin America Combining Macro and Micro Approaches
ISBN: 9783631565599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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248,01 |
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Poverty, Income Growth and Inequality in Paraguay During the 1990s: Spatial Aspects, Growth Determinants and Inequality Decomposition
ISBN: 9783631572016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The Paraguayan economy did not suffer debt crises in the eighties and had significant growth rates in the second half on the seventies, but poverty remained a problem. Understanding the performance and spatial distribution of poverty and inequality over a period of more than ten years can shed new light on structural causes behind what seems to be a low growth high poverty high inequality trap in Paraguay. How did poverty and inequality change during the 1990s. Did inequality reduce income growth? What were the growth determinants and what are the main forces driving inequality changes? These...
The Paraguayan economy did not suffer debt crises in the eighties and had significant growth rates in the second half on the seventies, but poverty re...
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264,02 |
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Growth, Poverty and Inequality Dynamics: Four Empirical Essays at the Macro and Micro Level
ISBN: 9783631572559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Since the Second World War the world has seen an economic growth spurt unprecedented in history. Economic growth is a necessary but not sufficient condition for improving human development, or in other words, economic growth is an important pre-requisite for the ultimate goal of human well-being. The four empirical essays of this book add to the general debate concerning dynamics of growth, poverty and inequality over the past 40 years from four different dimensions. The first chapter analyses the dynamics of the cross-country per capita income distribution and the existence of convergence...
Since the Second World War the world has seen an economic growth spurt unprecedented in history. Economic growth is a necessary but not sufficient con...
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314,23 |
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Social Institutions, Gender Inequality, and Regional Convergence in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9783631614228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This book contributes to the understanding of gender and regional inequalities in developing countries. First, it deals with social institutions related to gender inequality and proposes new composite indices to measure them. Using these indices, some interesting empirical connections between social institutions related to gender inequality and several relevant development outcomes are examined at the cross-country level. The second part of the book is concerned with the historical development of another type of inequality which is relevant for developing countries: inequality between...
This book contributes to the understanding of gender and regional inequalities in developing countries. First, it deals with social institutions relat...
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378,40 |
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New Approaches to the Dynamics, Measurement and Economic Implications of Ethnic Diversity
ISBN: 9783631638217 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This book examines the measurement and econometric effects of ethnic diversity. This issue is of great relevance to research and policy and is currently being discussed a great deal in the literature. In particular, a sizable literature has suggested that ethnic diversity constitutes a significant barrier to economic development. The precise measurement and interpretation of these results are a matter of substantial controversy. In this book, the dynamics of ethnic diversity are being empirically analyzed for the first time. Furthermore, it develops and applies a new measure of ethnic...
This book examines the measurement and econometric effects of ethnic diversity. This issue is of great relevance to research and policy and is current...
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328,69 |
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Economic Inequality in Latin America: Migration, Education and Structural Change
ISBN: 9783631639764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Inequality in Latin America is very large and there is a great desire for greater social justice, inclusion and equal opportunities. In order to contribute to the understanding of such developments, this volume addresses the problem of economic inequality in Paraguay, Honduras and Chile. The studies show from different angles how an adverse family background has permanent negative effects on employment, wages and labour mobility, particularly in the presence of structural economic changes. In general, this book is a contribution to understand why inequality is highly persistent in Latin...
Inequality in Latin America is very large and there is a great desire for greater social justice, inclusion and equal opportunities. In order to contr...
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292,93 |
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Empirical Analysis of Determinants, Distribution and Dynamics of Poverty
ISBN: 9783631573983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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371,55 |
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Measurement of Poverty, Undernutrition and Child Mortality
ISBN: 9783631576595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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314,23 |
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Measuring Poverty
ISBN: 9781786436948 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 872 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This impressive collection brings together the most important contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field of poverty measurement. It includes critical papers on what constitutes poverty and associated poverty measures, as well as conceptual and empirical approaches to set poverty lines for both national and international settings. The volume also discusses national and international income poverty measures, multidimensional poverty indices, and ways to capture poverty dynamics. With an original introduction by the editor, this collection will be an essential resource for...
This impressive collection brings together the most important contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field of poverty measurement. It in...
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1779,50 |
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Poverty, Inequality and Migration in Latin Amerika
ISBN: 9783631573273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
471,48 |