Calculating method for forecasting economic indices of agricultural enterprises on the basis of vector polynomial exponential algorithm of extrapolation of the realizations of random sequences is worked out. The model of prognosis allows estimate the results of enterprise functioning (to estimate future gross profit, gross production) after its reorganization (change of land resources, manpower...

This paper examines the impact of climate change on rich andpoor countries across theworld.Wemeasure two indices of the relative impact of climate across countries, impact per capita, and impact per GDP. These measures sum market impacts across the climate-sensitive economic sectors of each country. Both indices reveal that climate change will have serious distributional impact across countries...

Forest planning is a major issue for future development of regions, and landscape changes reflect to a large extent land-use/cover patterns related to economic and option's values as driving forces. Managing for reducing variability may have high costs of stability or resilience. Decision theory relies on maximizing an average or expected value of a preference pattern expressed by utility funct...

Socio-economic inequality is measured using various indices. The Gini (g) index, giving the overall inequality is the most commonly used, while the recently introduced Kolkata (k) index gives a measure of 1− k fraction of population who possess top k fraction of wealth in the society. This article reviews the character of such inequalities, as seen from a variety of data sources, the apparent r...

By employing the methods of Johansen cointegration test and granger causality test, the paper aimed at investigating the interactions of environmental pollution and economic growth in the process of Zhejiang’s industrialization according to the time series data of three kinds of pollution indices from 1981 to 2006. The results showed that three kinds of pollution indices all had a negative long...

This paper examines how political ideology influenced economic freedom in the Canadian provinces. We analyze the dataset of economic freedom indicators compiled by the Fraser Institute in 10 Canadian provinces over the 1981-2005 period and introduce two different indices of political ideology: government and parliament ideology. The results suggest that government ideology influenced labor mark...

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments’ respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity rights significantly and robustly increase with globalization and economic freedom, while empowerment ...

Unemployment is a universal problem with which the political leadership of almost every country has to wrestle. Even the United States of America which has emerged as the dominant economy of the global village, is forced to invest considerable resources in job creation and economic development programmes aimed at reducing institutional unemployment. This matter has become so significant in the ...