The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation This paper introduces two composite indices of globalisation. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalisation and show how globalisation has developed over time for different countries. The indices are composed of ...

Recognition of byproducts and their exploiting economic evaluation is one of basic requirements in documenting prospect of rangelands utilization. In this regard, the present study was performed to estimate the economic indices of exploiting byproducts production in Varnasa rangelands, Naghadeh, Iran. For this purpose, the economic data for calculating economic indices were collected after samp...

Abstract The paper analyzes the strong but complex relation between corruption and development. corruption/honesty index is explained by three variables measuring aspects of development: Income, Polity Fraser (for Economic Freedom). last two indices represent political economic system. Two problems arise: (i) Development a common factor in all four variables, giving confluence, so it difficult ...

Theoretically, measures of household wealth can be reflected by income, consumption or expenditure information. However, the collection of accurate income and consumption data requires extensive resources for household surveys. Given the increasingly routine application of principal components analysis (PCA) using asset data in creating socio-economic status (SES) indices, we review how PCA-bas...

STUDIES OF THE economic position of consumers have long recognized t,hat families with the same current income may differ widely with respect, to the amount of wealth they own. It is common pract,ice to speak of the wealthier family as “better off” than the less wealthy. Moreover, welfare programs reflect, the philosophy that assets should be taken into account in evaluating eligibility for ass...

Although in recent years there has been a growing acceptance of qualitative research in social epidemiology, the role and scope of its use remain a contested terrain. We sketch some of the issues that have been the focus of the debate between supporters and critics of qualitative research in social epidemiology and adjacent public health disciplines. They include epistemological problems, such ...

background: water filtration units have been faced problems in water turbidity removal related to their media, which is determined by qualitative indices. moreover, current qualitative indices such as turbidity and escaping particle number could not precisely determine the efficiency of the media in water filtration, so defining new indices is essential. in this study, the efficiency of anthrac...

BACKGROUND Under-5 mortality is unacceptably high in many countries, the burden of which is mainly borne by the poor. Whereas country characteristics are known to influence under-5 mortality, it is unknown whether these have a different impact on the poor and the rich. We aimed to describe how the association between under-5 mortality and socioeconomic, political, and health care factors varies...

The conventional view within the endogenous growth literature is that interest income taxes impede economic growth and investment subsidies promote economic growth. The present paper lays out a simple framework to see whether this is still true when non-renewable resources enter the ”growth engine” in an essential way. It is not! The framework allows a rich set of determinants of longrun growth...