BACKGROUND Per United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, Nepal is aspiring to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water and provide access to adequate and equitable sanitation for all by 2030. For these goals to be accomplished, it is important to understand the country's geographical heterogeneity and inequality of access to its drinking-water supply and...

The primary goal of this study is to comprehend the effects El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate pattern on groundwater storage (GWS) in South Atlantic-Gulf Region. Groundwater issues are complex and different studies focused depletion while few emphasized “groundwater rise”. current research designed develop an outline for assessing how patterns can affect fluctuation, which might lead ...

Index numbers of prices and quantities are estimated in the framework of a two-way analysis of variance, based on the ideas of H. Theil and K. Banerjee. Topics include aggregation, multidimensional indices, and non-spherical errors. The method is applied to the commodity exports of developing nations. Copyright (c) 1997 Eric Blankmeyer

Abstract Small area estimation is receiving considerable attention due to the high demand for small statistics. estimators of means and totals have been widely studied in literature. Moreover, last years also quantiles poverty indicators studied. In contrast, inequality indicators, which are often used socio-economic studies, received less attention. this article, we propose a robust method bas...

While software metrics are commonly used to assess software maintainability and study software evolution, they are usually defined on a micro-level (method, class, package). Metrics should therefore be aggregated in order to provide insights in the evolution at the macro-level (system). In addition to traditional aggregation techniques such as the mean, recently econometric aggregation techniqu...

This paper outlines the evolution of the theory of economic policy from the classical contributions of Frisch, Hansen, Tinbergen and Theil to situations of strategic interaction. Andrew Hughes Hallett has taken an active and relevant part in this evolution, having contributed to both the development and recent rediscovery of the classical theory, with possible relevant applications for model bu...

The paper examines the linkages between gender of household heads, education and household poverty in Nigeria between 1980 and 1996. Data analyzed were obtained from four national consumer expenditure surveys conducted in Nigeria in 1980, 1985, 1992 and 1996 by the Federal Office of Statistics. Adjustments were made for price differentials over time and across regions of the country. However, o...

This paper presents the fi rst comprehensive nationwide trend detection of mean discharges in Croatia. Over the last 30 years, global climate change has manifested itself largely in the rise of the average annual temperature, which has resulted in the changes of evapotranspiration and precipitation patterns. The consequences of those changes have been varied spatial impacts on river discharge (...