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Inequality and Social Welfare [PDF]
This paper provides a review of part of the literature on inequality and social welfare, with a special focus on the Gini index. The paper first presents the extended Gini index used for measuring inequality, as well as the source decomposition of the ...
Wodon, Quentin, Yitzhaki, Shlomo
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Climate Risk and Real Estate Markets in the EU: Institutional Control Through Regulation
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change is increasingly reshaping the economic foundations of asset markets, yet its implications for the estate sector remain unevenly understood, particularly when institutional and financial mechanisms mediate risk transmission. While a growing body of evidence links climate vulnerability to property valuation and market behaviour ...
Qiulin Yang +4 more
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A Household-Based Human Development Index [PDF]
One of the most serious weaknesses of the human development index (HDI) is that it considers only average achievements and does not take into account the distribution of human development within a country or by population subgroups. All previous attempts
Stephan Klasen, Kenneth Harttgen
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The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2024 [PDF]
Now in its fifth edition, the Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index (CRI) assesses the commitment of 164 countries and regions to fighting inequality.
Matthew, Martin +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing frequency of global crises has intensified concerns regarding climate vulnerability and the resilience of global production systems. This study examines the heterogeneous effects of supply chain development and supply chain digitalisation on climate vulnerability across countries, while accounting for institutional and investment ...
Ziwei Li +4 more
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Measuring and explaining economic inequality: An extension of the Gini coefficient. [PDF]
This paper proposes a new class of inequality indices based on the Gini’s coefficient. The properties of the indices are studied and in particular they are found to be regular, relative and satisfy the Pigou-Dalton transfer principle.
Chameni Nembua, Célestin
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how geopolitical risk, high‐technology exports and the Paris Agreement shape investment in renewable energy across developed and developing economies. Drawing on structural contingency theory, we conceptualise renewable energy investment as a country‐level response to external contingencies and analyse a global panel of 100
Tianqi Luo +5 more
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Journal of Cardiovascular Development and DiseasePredicted cardiovascular age (heart age) translates the risk-factor profile into an equivalent age, which may facilitate interpretation of estimated cardiovascular risk.
Víctor Juan Vera-Ponce +6 more
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About the Accuracy of Gini Index for Measuring the Poverty [PDF]
The Gini index is often used to measure the income inequality presented inside a specified group of individuals and sometimes also for evaluating the “poverty” degree of this population. In this article we show that Gini’s index is not always so adequate
Stefanescu, Stefan V.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the moderating role of Hofstede's cultural dimensions on the relationship between board gender diversity and corporate environmental performance, including its components (resource use, emissions management, environmental innovations), across publicly listed companies headquartered in 32 developed economies.
Filip Hampl +1 more
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