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A Radical Shift in Managing Risks: Practical Applications of Complexity Theory
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
Complexity theory is designed to bring order out of a rough-and- tumble world, something close to every insurance … . But in the real world it's just what its name says-a theory. It may help us understand why things go one way or another …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789667
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Impactos sociais, econômicos e ambientais da melhoria no saneamento básico rural no Brasil
Costa, Cinthia Cabral da; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Brazil has more than 23 million rural people with unimproved sanitation, which corresponds to about 75% of rural population. One reflection of this situation is observed in health, where there is an index of mortality caused by diarrhea (the main disease caused by unimproved sanitation) similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258393
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Importância de uma política de saneamento rural no Brasil
Costa, Cinthia Cabral da; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Brazil has more than 23 million rural people with unimproved sanitation, which corresponds to about 75% of rural population. This study aimed to measure the social, environmental and economic impacts caused by implementation of a technological proposal for sanitation: “septic cesspool...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261177
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Analysis of nominal income evolution in the rural area, on types of households. Case study, South Muntenia region
Cretu, Daniela; Iova, Radu Andrei; Lascar, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The income and consumption of the population are determined by the general evolution of the national economy, these know effects of the accession and post-accession processes of the country to the European Union. In this respect, in the present paper we proposed to study the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110274
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Balance del modelo agroexportador en América Latina el comenzar el siglo XXI
Reveles, Acosta; Lorena, Irma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The purpose of this essay is offer a perspective of situation crosses today regional agriculture, checking some of its added balances. It interests us to debate the optimistic and not very critical way with which the figures are divulged and to put in evidence aspects fewer diffused, but of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790309
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Does Weather Actually Affect Tipping? An Empirical Analysis of Time Series Data
Flynn, Sean Masaki; Greenberg, Adam Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Prior literature has found evidence that pleasant weather conditions (namely sunshine) lead to higher tip rates …, presumably because pleasant weather improves the moods of either servers or patrons. But previous studies involved only a few … can be modulated by weather-induced changes in mood. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646831
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Weather as a transient influence on survey-reported satisfaction with life
Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Local weather conditions experienced by survey respondents on the day of the interview are used to assess the size of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685567
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Weather and Income: Lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have … countries, leaving rich countries basically unaffected. In this study, we make use of a detailed weather and economic dataset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130323
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Weather, fertility, and land: land curse in economic development in a unified growth theory
He, Qichun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We consider fertility choice and weather in analyzing the effect of farmland abundance in economic development. We find … an economy in the Malthusian regime. This lends new insights to Unified Growth Theory (Galor, 2011) by elucidating a …, opposite to the Matsuyama (1992) model, good weather is found to be a blessing for a small open economy, while it is a curse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644931
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Migration and climate
Graves, Philip E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1980
The paper lacks an abstract, but argues that an important systematic influence on regional growth and decline is the climate offered at various locations.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567641