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Capability Approach: A Formal Introduction

León Tamayo, Dorian Fernando - In: Journal of Economics and Political Economy 4 (2017) 2, pp. 215-218

The capability approach has been made operable and an example is the Human Development Index and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (Dotter & Klasen, 2014). However, its operable nature in the field of evaluation of specific dimension such as education, gender and poverty from a diffuse...

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A Very Brief Approximation to What Is the Capability Approach of Amartya Sen?

León Tamayo, Dorian Fernando; Moreno, Jose Luis - 2017

The capability approach developed by Sen represents a proposal for the evaluation of individual well-being and social development centered on people and away - but not exclusive- of materiality. In the present article describes the capability approach developed by Sen and examines the importance...

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Capability approach : a formal introduction

Leon, Dorian Fernando - In: Journal of economics and political economy : JEPE 4 (2017) 2, pp. 215-218

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Cognitive functioning among poor elderly persons: evidence from Peru

Novella, Rafael; Olivera, Javier - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 19, pp. 1-13

functioning. We exploit the baseline sample of the Peru’s non-contributory pension programme Pension 65 and find significant … relationships between cognitive functioning and retirement, education, nutrition, ethnicity and sex. …

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The sterling "flash event" of 7 October 2016

Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich / Markets … - 2017

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Capability approach : a formal introduction

Leon, Dorian Fernando - 2017

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756289

A very brief approximation to what is the capability approach of Amartya Sen?

León Tamayo, Dorian Fernando; Moreno, Jose Luis - 2017

The capability approach developed by Sen represents a proposal for the evaluation of individual well-being and social development centered on people and away - but not exclusive - of materiality. In the present article describes the capability approach developed by Sen and examines the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756305

Trade policy interventions on agricultural markets in countries of the former Soviet Union and the Balkans

Götz, Linde Johanna - 2017

Trade restrictions; export controls; food crisis policy; Former Soviet Union countries; functioning of agricultural … functioning in transition countries more in general, particularly in a country as Russia in which the market stretches across a …

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Are we moving towards functioning agricultural markets and trade relations?

Brosig, Stephan; Glauben, Thomas; Levkovych, Inna; … - In: Journal of Agricultural Economics 67 (2016) 3, pp. 677-684

We introduce a special feature on the functioning of international agricultural markets. This feature is motivated by … the increased interest in the functioning of commodity markets raised by unprecedented price turbulences since 2008, major … delineation of non-functioning markets from markets that adequately adjusted to adverse framework conditions lacks theoretical …

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Score-based tests of differential item functioning in the two-parameter model

Wang, Ting; Strobl, Carolin; Zeileis, Achim; Merkle, … - 2016

Measurement invariance is a fundamental assumption in item response theory models, where the relationship between a latent construct (ability) and observed item responses is of interest. Violation of this assumption would render the scale misinterpreted or cause systematic bias against certain...

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