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How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality in multi-dimensional poverty indices?

Klasen, Stephan; Lahoti, Rahul - 2016

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show that the direction of the bias...

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Lobbying and Compromise

Epstein, Gil S.; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2005

The compromise enhancing effect of lobbying on public policy has been established in two typical settings. In the first, lobbies are assumed to act as 'principals' and the setters of the policy (the candidates in a Downsian electoral competition or the elected policy maker in a citizen-...

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Majority voting and the welfare implications of tax avoidance

Traxler, Christian - 2009

A benchmark result in the political economy of taxation is that majority voting over a linear income tax schedule will result in an inefficiently high tax rate whenever the median voter has a below average income. The present paper examines the role of tax avoidance for this welfare assessment....

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Microfinance, commercialisation and ethics

Schmidt, Reinhard H. - 2008

This paper discusses the so-called commercial approach to microfinance under economic and ethical aspects. It first shows how microfinance has developed from a purely welfare-oriented activity to a commercially relevant line of banking business. The background of this stunning success is the...

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Integrating climate policies in the European environment: A policy report

Carraro, Carlo; Goria, Alessandra - 1999

This report summarises the main ideas, proposals, scientific achievements, consensus and conflicting issues that emerged at the Second EFIEA Policy Workshop, held at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Palazzo delle Stelline, Corso Magenta 63, Milan, Italy, March 4th-6th, 1999. EFIEA, the European...

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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004

One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L?Esprit des Lois, argued, ?peace is the...

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Price undertakings, VERs, and foreign direct investment: The case of foreign rivalry

Ishikawa, Jota; Miyagiwa, Kaz - 2007

Antidumping (AD) petitions are often withdrawn in favor of VERs and price undertakings. We compare foreign firms …

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A commitment theory of subsidy agreements

Brou, Daniel; Ruta, Michele - 2012

the policy substitution problem. Finally, we employ the theory to analyze the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM …

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A commitment theory of subsidy agreements

Brou, Daniel; Ruta, Michele - 2012

the policy substitution problem. Finally, we employ the theory to analyze the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM …

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Theorie für die Praxis - Zehn Thesen zur wirtschafts- und unternehmensethischen Ausbildung von Führungskräften

Pies, Ingo; Hielscher, Stefan; Beckmann, Markus - 2007

und Unternehmensethik kommt jedoch derzeit nicht zustande, weil einigen unternehmensethischen Ansätzen (nach wie vor) die … Hintergrund argumentiert dieser Beitrag, ((a)) warum die Unternehmensethik von einer wirtschaftsethischen Konzeption gesteuert … sein muss und warum es vorteilhaft ist, wenn eine solche Ethik als ökonomische Theorie der Moral operiert, ((b)) wie eine …

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