Procedures for selecting sires are compared in terms of making maximum genetic progress in economic lnerit. A quadratic index, a simplified form of the quadratic index and a linear index to evaluate economic merit, and a restricted index to improve milk as much as possible while holding milk fat percentage constant, all result in nearly equal expected genetic progress in economic merit. Selecti...

Investment has been found to be a significant determinant of growth. This paper analyses the effects of institutions and transition progress on investment rates of transition economies since the collapse of the Socialist Bloc. Political institution is measured by the Freedom House’s Political Rights and Civil Liberties indexes; economic institution is proxied by the Index of Economic Freedom co...

The presenter’s study: (1) investigated the underpinnings for a drive in the search for a better quality of life; (2) formulated a basis for a realistic state of happiness; (3) investigated an overview of ICHPER·SD through examining its history in 4 periods: (a) from the founding in 1958 to 1991 as the first segment; (b) from 1991 to 2001 as the 2 segment; (c) from 2003 to 2011 as the 3 segment...

the aim of this study was to determine the socioeconomic inequalities in nonuse of seatbelts in cars and helmets on motorcycles in kurdistan province, west of iran, 2009.the data used in this study was collected from the data gathered in non-communicable disease surveillance system (ncdss) in 2009 in kurdistan. a total of 1000 people were included in this study. the outcome variable of this stu...

Recent cross sectional growth studies have found that ethnolinguistic fractionalization is an important explanatory variable of long-run growth performance. In presenting variation over time in a number of social, political and economic dimensions, this paper adds longitudinal evidence on a range of variables that have been linked to long run economic development. Given South Africa’s history o...

Recent studies have investigated the relationship between a country’s overall measure of economic freedom and its economic performance over time. On the one hand, institutions promoting economic freedoms are thought to increase productivity (Dawson 1998) and investment opportunities (Besley 1995). However, while economic freedom may be certainly desirable from a normative perspective, De Hann a...