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„h Australia¡¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average … income (income per person in Australia). ¡V Annual average income growth accelerated from 1.4 per cent in the 1970s and 1980s … income growth of the 1990s was distributed evenly between labour (wages and salaries) and capital (profits). The labour and …
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of labour is near- zero and productivity of land provides only subsistence. Poverty keeps consumption and savings low …
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reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to …Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of … accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …
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REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO …GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF … ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NIGERIA, THE …
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This paper deals with poverty, health, education and human deprivation among Indian States. Human development evaluates … poverty, health, education lead the poor to indulge in the vicious circle. Uplifting the poor from these deprivations is … imperative for overall development. This paper proposes a new formula to analyse human deprivation by the help of poverty line …
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increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility … function. One possible answer is that human development involves more than current income (e.g., as argued by the UN). We find … absolute income, the generosity of the welfare state and (weakly) with life expectancy; it is negatively correlated with the …
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tax- and contribution rules built into tax-benefit models to convert net income information into gross amounts. Using … to produce different net-to-gross ratios for different income components. We undertake a case study to illustrate the … income sources of the same individual. …
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Empirical studies of intertemporal dynamics of individual income, distribution of personal income, and growth and … distribution of national income are all based on statistics that rely on some concept of income. The dominant one today appears to … be the so-called Haig-Simons-Hicks (HSH) concept of income. I examine the foundations of this concept in Hicks's Value …
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The relationship between speed and income is established in a micro- economic model focusing on the trade-off between … driver will choose to exceed the speed limit. The relationship between speed and income is found again in the empirical … speed on income, distance travelled and a number of controls. The results are clearly significant and indicate an average …
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are random with respect to income. We use data on income and democracy going back to 1820, multiple definitions of … democracy, and non-parametric testing focusing on the distribution of entrants’ incomes. We find that income matters for entry … into higher levels of democracy; but if we control for the previously achieved level of democracy, the income effect …
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