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The 'Easterlin Paradox' holds that economic growth in nations does not buy greater happiness for the average citizen. This thesis was advanced in the 1970s on the basis of the then available data on happiness in nations. Later data have disproved most of the empirical claims behind the thesis,...
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To what extent is economic growth liable to improve people’s subjective well-being in the long run? Recent studies identified three possible answers: economic growth matters a great deal; economic growth does not matter at all; economic growth matters, but other things matter more. Each of...
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This article investigates the relationships among economic growth, income distribution and poverty in Brazil during the … variations in the poverty indicators and the main components that answer for this variation - decomposition model;another that … simulates the effects of the variation of the income and the concentration indicators on the poverty level - model of elasticity …
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This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …
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scarce resource theory (SRT) in operating level economics. The consequence of this is that leaders around the world and the …
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Nelson Mandela said, “During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against White domination, and I have fought against Black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony...
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and poverty reduction using quarter frequency data in case of Pakistan over the period of 1972-2011. We applied the ARDL … between financial deepening, economic growth and poverty reduction exists in case of Pakistan. The causality analysis implied … that causality results are sensitive with the use of proxy for poverty reduction as well as methodology to be applied. …
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The paper is concerned with poverty in Romania during a period of economic growth (2000-2008). The poverty incidence … and profile before financial and economic crisis and the evolution of poverty in the context of economic growth and of a … strong increase of households income have been studied, aiming to identify who is the most vulnerable at poverty risk and to …
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This paper looks at some of the fundamental ideas in contemporary economics such as the basic economic problem … to explain how the manner in which these concepts are interpreted and disseminated in mainstream economics may be counter … productive to the capacity of economics to develop new ways of countering scarcity. It aligns these concepts with recent unrest …
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and free markets in contemporary economics is as reliable as might be expected; do free markets encourage or retard …. Contemporary economics has a similar pet peeve; it does not know how to cure common inflation and deflation. The same way medicine … leaves the body’s immune system to deal with colds until a cure is found contemporary economics leaves inflation and …
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