A vital activity is the issue of creating a knowledge society, which can only be solved by involving all the forces of intellectual, academic, all generators of ideas. The paper is intended as a contribution, along with attempts by other specialists in finding operational solutions and their...

This study, as a synthesis of past research, demonstrates that the use of the well-known methodological "Gini coefficient index" measured income inequalities, should support a new forecasting form of tourist impact, led - under conditions - to new flexible development policies, especially in...

OLS models are the predominant choice for poverty predictions in a variety of contexts such as proxy-means tests, poverty mapping or cross-survey imputations. This paper compares the performance of econometric and machine learning models in predicting poverty using alternative objective...

Poverty prediction models are used by economists to address missing data issues in a variety of contexts such as poverty profiling, targeting with proxy-means tests, cross-survey imputations such as poverty mapping, or vulnerability analyses. Based on the models used by this literature, this...

We propose a general simulation-based procedure for estimating the quality of approximate policies in heterogeneous-agent equilibrium models, which allows verification that such approximate solutions describe a near-rational equilibrium. Our procedure endows agents with superior knowledge of the...