Non-economic Factors in Development

Economic and Non-economic Factors in Economic Development: the Concepts and Their Differences S. Morteza Afghah Supervisor

Economic or Non-Economic Factors – What Empowers Women?

Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of financial services. We investigate this further to determine whether it is the economic or the non-economic factors that have a greater impact on empowering women. Using household survey data on SHG from India, a general structural model is adopted where the latent women empowerment ...

Measuring the Impact of Non-economic Exogenous Factors on Industrial Energy Demand in Iran

This paper tries to demonstrate the importance of non-economic exogenous factors (Underlying Energy Demand Trend) when we estimate the industrial energy demand for Iran. The Structural Time Series Model (STSM) approach is used to model these unobservable factors. The Kalman filter and Maximum Likelihood methods allow us to estimate the value of the UEDT. This approach enables us to obtain more ...

Identifying the effective factors of economic development of society in public libraries

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of public libraries (services and functions) in the economic development of society from the perspective of librarians and public library managers. Method: The present study was a quantitative research project and was conducted as a survey. A questionnaire was used to collect data. Findings: Findings in the present study showed ...

Prevalence of Behavioral Risk Factors for Non-Communicable Diseases and Related Socio-Economic Factors in Iranian Military Households

Background and Aim: Understanding the prevalence of risk factors for non-communicable diseases and the extent of socio-economic factors affecting their occurrence is very important in order to plan to reduce the burden of disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of socio-economic factors on exposure to behavioral risk factors for non-communicable diseases in Military Househo...