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The Long Shadow of the Past: Political Economy of Regional Inequality in Colombia
... Focusing now on the contemporary period more squarely we can measure some key economic institutions. One of the most basic ideas in the literature on institutions and economic development is that there are strong reasons ...
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MEASURING HUMAN POVERTY: A GENERALIZED INDEX AND AN APPLICATION USING BASIC DIMENSIONS OF LIFE AND SOME ANTHROPOMETRIC INDICATORS
... Human Poverty Index (HPI) is a composite index of poverty that focuses on deprivations in human lives, aimed at measuring poverty as a failure in capabilities in multiple dimensions, in ...
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Ensayos de Política Económica, Año XII, Vol II, Nº 6, 2018 (número completo)
... multidimensional poverty measure is a process with a range of normative ...multidimensional poverty index, it is also necessary to set weights for each dimension/indicator and to provide a criterion ...
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Manipulation of Social Program Eligibility: Detection, Explanations and Consequences for Empirical Research
... These findings explain that the patterns observed in Figures 1 and 2 are the results of a relative costs and benefit trade off between conducting surveys before an election or cheating. People value surveys because in ...
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“Captive Markets”: The Impact of Kidnappings on Corporate Investment in Colombia
... a poverty index, the extension of roads in 1995, FARC attacks per 100,000, and homicides per 100,000); and fixed effects (by year, industry, department, and ...
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... MIGRATION INDEX as the key selection ...the POVERTY INDEX is positively correlated with program selection (significant at 1% level) but that, at the same time, it is negatively correlated with ...
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Measuring civil liberty : an assessment of standards based data sets = Midiendo la libertad civil : una evaluación de base de datos estandarizados
... researchers often feel compelled to combine the disaggregated scores collected in the measurement process into an overall index score in order to focus on the overarching core concept such as civil liberty. But ...
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A Standardized Index for Assessing Seawater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers: The SITE Index
... an index that defines the state of the intrusion, is easy to obtain from common or easily available data, and is capable of delivering realistic and understandable information that allows aquifer ...intrusion ...
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Binary RDF for Scalable Publishing, Exchanging and Consumption in the Web of Data
... Finally, we highlight the novel hybrid (Sakr, Elnikety, & He, 2012) and the full in-memory RDF stores (Binna, Gassler, Zangerle, Pacher, & Specht, 2011; Janik & Kochut, 2005) which represent an emerging ...
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Upgrading the Wiener index
... Wiener index W is the oldest molecular-graph-based ...logical index could be "upgraded" (a) by using as the distance the sum of the bond lengths along the shortest path, or (b) by using the ...
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VIBRATION REDUCTION INDEX K
... The vibration reduction index Kij is one of the key parameters when using the new European prediction tools developed in the EN 12354. The standard gives an estimation of this parameter using the relation between ...
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Urban poverty partnership:report about urban deprivation/poverty observatories in the European Union
... Type 4. Urban marginalised areas are the severely deprived areas that accumulate low human capital with low formal employment and inadequate housing. They often consist of socially isolated poor areas within cities and ...
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... escape poverty if he remains in a developing country with a large uneducated population, but may escape poverty if he moves to a country with a larger educated ...
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SOCIAL STATISTICS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORTS AND MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL REPORTS: CHALLENGES AND CONSTRAINTS
... to poverty as the levels of poverty reported on the basis of national poverty lines often vary considerably from that arrived at on the basis of international poverty line of US$1 a ...
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Challenging Poverty, Vulnerability and Social Exclusion in Nicaragua: Some Considerations for Poverty Reduction Strategies
... 1998-1993 poverty gap change indicator (see Map 4) shows large rises in the depth of poverty in Nicaragua in almost all of the national territory and in some cases up to 53% (Prinzapolka) with increases in ...
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Barcelona : preliminary resilience assessment
... An initial review of the data at a general level revealed that the problems of accessibility and affordability in Barcelona particularly affected the lower quintile of the population in housing- related public services. ...
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An anthropometric approach to the measurement of poverty
... Infant mortality seems to be an unavoidable feature of the human race; currently, 6 million children under 5 die every year in the world as a direct or indirect cause of malnutrition (Basset and James-Levinson 2007, ...
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Effects of Subsidized Health Insurance on Newborn Health in Colombia
... the poverty score distribution in certain municipalities particularly after the score algorithm was made known to local officials at the end of ...the poverty score distribution starting in ...
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Measuring creativity in the EU member states
... new index of creativity (The Global Creative Index – GCI) for eighty two countries using data for the period 2000 to ...The index, as the other indexes developed by Richard Florida, considers three ...
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Seasonal changes in the somatic indices of the freshwater silverside, Odontesthes bonariensis (Teleostei, Atheriniformes) from a Neotropical shallow lake (Argentina)
... fat index, gonadosomatic index, hepatosomatic index and somatic index) and were related to zooplanktonic community dynamics, the main energy food source for this ...
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