Search Results - subject:"basic needs"

Basic Needs and Wealth as Independent Determinants of Happiness: An Illustration from Thailand

Guillen-Royo, Monica; Velazco, Jackeline; Camfield, Laura - In: Social Indicators Research 110 (2013) 2, pp. 517-536

of wellbeing such as wealth and basic needs is particularly relevant. This paper investigates the relationship between … basic needs as defined by the Theory of Human needs (THN, Doyal and Gough <CitationRef CitationID="CR20">1991</CitationRef …>), material wealth and happiness. Specifically, we intend to answer the following research question: Are wealth and basic needs …

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From market needs to human needs: Spain and the economic crisis

Guardiola, Jorge; Guillen-Royo, Monica - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2013

The 2008 financial crisis hit the world’s economies in different ways. In Spain, the economic crisis has had an acute effect on unemployment and access to health care and education, aggravated by the austerity plans of the Spanish government. In order to cope with the crisis, government...

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Weaning Business Ethics from Strategic Economism: The Development Ethics Perspective

Poruthiyil, Prabhir - In: Journal of Business Ethics 116 (2013) 4, pp. 735-749

For more than three decades, business ethics has suggested and evaluated strategies for multinationals to address abject deprivations and weak regulatory institutions in developing countries. Critical appraisals, internal and external, have observed these concerns being severely constrained by...

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Income and Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty in Six Latin American Countries

Battiston, Diego; Cruces, Guillermo; Lopez-Calva, Luis; … - In: Social Indicators Research 112 (2013) 2, pp. 291-314

(income-based and unmet basic needs) by combining income with five other dimensions: school attendance for children, education …

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Multidimensional Poverty in Senegal: a Non-monetary Basic Needs Approach

Ki, Jean Bosco; Faye, Salimata; Faye, Bocar - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2005

construct a composite indicator of poverty using a basic needs approach. The analysis shows that the most widespread forms of …

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Knowing what is good for you: Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the 'objective good'

Lelkes, Orsolya - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2005

between these two in the case of basic needs. For the analysis, individuals' self-reported life satisfaction is used as a …

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The Disconcerting Pyramids of Poverty and Inequality of Sub-Saharan Africa

Lopes, Paulo Silva - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) should not be ascertained only on the basis of scarce and unreliable income distribution statistics, but should also take into account social conditions. Recent, widely disseminated claims that poverty and inequality have increased over the past...

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Towards a new paradigm for economics

Zaman, Asad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Current economic theory is mainly concerned with the factors which affect the wealth of nations. Issues of income distribution and elimination of poverty and deprivation are secondary. We suggest an alternative formulation which would make hunger and homelessness, and poverty in general, the...

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Sierra Leone; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This paper examines Sierra Leoneâ€™s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). Sierra Leoneâ€™s PRSP considers a number of short- to medium-term challenges that should not only impact immediately on the living conditions of people but also lay solid foundations for addressing the...

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Switzerland; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This Selected Issues paper attempts to quantify the impact of the demographic shift on growth and public finances in Switzerland. It examines the intertemporal consistency between current policy plans and unfunded liabilities, focusing primarily on social security, and explores policy options....

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