Search Results - subject:"STANDARD OF LIVING"

A Happiness and Objective Well-Being Index (HOW-IS-IL) for Living and Working in the State of Illinois, 2016-17

Golden, Lonnie - 2017

An inaugural index is introduced to measure and track the well-being and happiness of Illinois' citizens and workers. It draws on existing indicators and the happiness and well-being research literature. Similar to other such indexes, that quantify both objective and subjective well-being...

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Decision-Making in the Household and Material Deprivation

Maksymovych, Sergii - 2017

This study examines how household living conditions are related to alternative allocations of control over decision-making in the household. The degree of control exerted by a particular individual over different decisions and household living conditions are taken from responses to an extensive...

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Priorities for Completing the European Union's Single Market

Strasky, Jan - 2017

The EU Single Market remains far from completed: progress in goods and services market integration has stalled, financial markets are still fragmented along national lines and the barriers to labour mobility remain high. Restrictive regulation within countries and regulatory heterogeneity across...

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The Impact of Road Development on Household Welfare in Rural Papua New Guinea

Wiegand, Martin - 2017

In this paper we estimate the impact of road development on household welfare in rural Papua New Guinea over the period between 1996 and 2010, using two cross-sectional household surveys and corresponding road maps. To deal with endogenous placement of road infrastructure programs we employ a...

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Secular Satiation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2017

Satiation of need is generally ignored by growth theory. I study a model where consumers may be satiated in any given good but new goods may be introduced. A social planner will never elect a trajectory with long-run satiation. Instead, he will introduce enough new goods to avoid such a...

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Rural Livelihoods in Mon State : Evidence from a Representative Household Survey

Filipski, Mateusz J. - 2017

The purpose of this report is to provide information and analysis to government, civil society, and donors interested in improving the well-being of the rural population of Mon State, Myanmar. Specifically, the report analyzes the different sources of income for rural households, as well as...

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Documenting Myanmar's Social Transformation : Insights from Six Rounds of Research on Livelihoods and Social Change in Rural Communities

Pursch, Samuel James - 2017

This paper presents the initial findings from six rounds of research conducted between 2012 and 2016 on livelihoods and social change in rural Myanmar, undertaken as part of the Qualitative Social and Economic Monitoring initiative. These data provide unique insights into the ways in which broad...

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Revising the EU material deprivation variables : 2017 edition

Guio, Anne-Catherine (contributor); … - European Commission / Statistical Office of the … - 2017 - 2017 edition

In March 2017, the European Union (EU) adopted a new indicator of 'material and social deprivation'. This measure was developed by Guio et al (2012) and covers the entire population of the 28 EU Member States. It includes 13 deprivation items and replaces the 9-item 'standard' material...

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Armut im Lebensverlauf : Messkonzepte in der Armutsforschung

Beste, Jonas - 2017

results of poverty analyses? How can deprivation be evaluated in the individual standard of living? How can poverty dynamics … be distinguished according to different concepts of poverty? What factors influence a change in the standard of living …? How are resources converted into standard of living and what role is played by a household's financial situation …

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Sustainability of subsistence livelihoods of agro-pastoralists in changing socioeconomic environment of Cholistan desert-Pakistan

Malik, Sher Muhammad; Fazlur-Rahman; Ali, Amjad - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 11 (2017) 3, pp. 1100-1133

Subsistence livelihoods of agro-pastoralists are heavily dependent on vulnerable natural resources. These natural resources are exposed to a number of risks in the form of shocks, trends and seasonality. These risks are linked with environmental hazards. The Cholistan desert is divided into...

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