Measuring global prosperity using data envelopment analysis and OWA operator
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DOI: 10.1002/int.22176
Abstract: Prosperity is one of the key economic indicators of a nation's success. The measure of a country's true prosperity is best achieved by considering a set of criteria and identifying the optimal weights associated with… read more here.
Keywords: global prosperity; prosperity; owa operator; measuring global ... See more keywords
Prosperity-Enhancing Institutions: Towards a Comprehensive Composite Index
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-016-1466-3
Abstract: Institutions that potentially have a positive impact on economic performance rarely exist outside of a system of institutions; rather they are embedded in the institutional order of a country. It is thus imperative to investigate… read more here.
Keywords: index; prosperity; prosperity enhancing; institutions towards ... See more keywords
Food and agricultural innovation pathways for prosperity
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2018.01.002
Abstract: Abstract This introduction to the special issue deploys a framework, inspired by realist synthesis and introduced in Section 1 , that aims to untangle the contexts, mechanisms, and outcomes associated with investments that link poverty… read more here.
Keywords: agricultural research; food; prosperity; poverty ... See more keywords
Rethinking the connections between agricultural change and rural prosperity: A discussion of insights derived from case studies in seven countries
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.07.006
Abstract: Abstract In the past, rural prosperity has been mainly associated with the modernisation of agriculture and the economic benefits that appear to originate from it. Today we know that this simple logic is not correct… read more here.
Keywords: prosperity; case studies; studies seven; rural prosperity ... See more keywords
The durations of recession and prosperity: What distribution do they follow?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2019.04.057
Abstract: Abstract I study the duration of periods of prosperity and recessions from twenty-one leading economies and determine what distribution is a reasonable and plausible fit for these duration data. The earlier literature has focused on… read more here.
Keywords: distribution follow; prosperity distribution; durations recession; recession prosperity ... See more keywords
Forests as pathways to prosperity: Empirical insights and conceptual advances
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104647
Abstract: Abstract The role of forests in supporting current consumption and helping people cope with seasonal, climatic, and other stressors is increasingly well understood. But can forests help rural households climb out of poverty? And can… read more here.
Keywords: insights conceptual; prosperity empirical; pathways prosperity; empirical insights ... See more keywords
Competitiveness and innovation: effects on prosperity
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DOI: 10.1080/13032917.2018.1519179
Abstract: ABSTRACT Competitiveness is a broad concept applied to many fields, especially economics. The study of tourism competitiveness has focused on factors that can enhance the prosperity of a destination. One of these factors is innovation.… read more here.
Keywords: concept; prosperity; innovation; competitiveness innovation ... See more keywords
Conditions for prosperity and depression of a stochastic R&D model under regime switching
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DOI: 10.1186/s13662-020-02633-w
Abstract: The stochastic research and development (R&D) model plays an important role in economic growth theories. To explain the growth performance of the economy under regime switching, we first establish sufficient criteria that ensure economic prosperity,… read more here.
Keywords: regime switching; prosperity; prosperity depression; model ... See more keywords
Rebranding Islam: Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru by James Bourk Hoesterey (review)
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DOI: 10.1353/anq.2017.0016
Abstract: James Bourk Hoesterey, Rebranding Islam: Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. 296 pp.In this well written ethnography, Hoesterey places the fascinating story of the "rise and fall" of a popular… read more here.
Keywords: prosperity; james bourk; help guru; self help ... See more keywords
Altered cropping pattern and cultural continuation with declined prosperity following abrupt and extreme arid event at ~4,200 yrs BP: Evidence from an Indus archaeological site Khirsara, Gujarat, western India
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185684
Abstract: Archaeological sites hold important clues to complex climate-human relationships of the past. Human settlements in the peripheral zone of Indus culture (Gujarat, western India) are of considerable importance in the assessment of past monsoon-human-subsistence-culture relationships… read more here.
Keywords: gujarat western; prosperity; western india; site ... See more keywords
GDP and beyond: Prosperity convergence in the countries of Western and Eastern Europe
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DOI: 10.1556/032.2020.00033
Abstract: After Second World War (WWII) a true evolution in understanding of economic development happened, which affected the ways of measuring prosperity, i.e. perceiving changes in people’s welfare. Numerous indicators have been created, which go ‘beyond… read more here.
Keywords: prosperity convergence; beyond prosperity; prosperity; gdp beyond ... See more keywords