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The traditional relationship of patronage and clientship between the landlord- and the growing commercial class in Bida and other Nigerian Emirates - firmly established during the 19th century - left indelible marks which influence the pattern of social communication between these two classes...
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Just as the African economy is confronting its sharpest reversal in a generation; Nigeria is currently faced with perhaps the most challenging economic downturn (amidst fuel subsidy removal) in its history. Thus, social protection programmes in the form of social cash transfers to vulnerable...
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In India, over the years, the progress in women’s nutritional status has been less impressive and remains as a major problem for health policy. The dual burden of nutritional disorder of women in India is posing a serious challenge not only for nutritional policy but also for socio-economic...
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A microeconomic model is developed, which accurately predicts the shape of personal income distribution (PID) in the United States and the evolution of the shape over time. The underlying concept is borrowed from geo-mechanics and thus can be considered as mechanics of income distribution. The...
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Contemporary managerial processes are focused on communication and negotiation, where efficiency acquires an essential importance and its variation related to the managerial programme, with its time or space details, respectively related to the effectiveness of management, statistics,...
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Redistributing incomes has always been one of the main goals of Iranian policy makers, although political regimes have changed frequently between 1991 and 2004. We have applied a microsimulation using the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and a Heckman correction for sample selection bias to compare...
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This paper examines the usefulness and limits of household consumption expenditure data for understanding … intrahousehold resource allocation issues. It also examines alternative data collection methods for obtaining household consumption … nationally representative household surveys, partially individualized consumption data collection (e. g., education and health …
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In this paper we apply the Complete Analysis of Differentiable Games (introduced by D. Carfì in [3], [6], [8], [9], and already employed by himself and others in [4], [5], [7]) to the classic Cournot Duopoly (1838), classic oligopolistic market in which there are two enterprises producing the...
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A cereal in full expansion, maize is currently eaten by two out of every three Cameroonians. The NCRE (National Cereals Research and Extension) project introduced and distributed new improved varieties to increase maize output. The objective of this research is to study determinants guiding the...
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Article on the use of system analysis methodology for modeling socio-economic processes. The author justifies the methodological approach, based on dynamic analysis of exogenous processes in economic and social management practices. Particular attention is paid to the use of index indicators...
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