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Reproductive Efficiency as a Social Indicator

Studies in Family Planning, 1976
An index of reproductive efficiency (RE) is proposed as a social indicator that will meet the need to consider various forms of pregnancy wastage, to compare their relative costs, and to guide reproductive health policy accordingly. This article discusses conceptual and measurement aspects of RE.
C, Muller, F S, Jaffe, M G, Kovar
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Trust and social efficiencies [PDF]

open access: possibleReview of Economic Design, 2001
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Social choice and efficiency

2020
This chapter evaluates the theory of social choice. The theory of social choice is concerned with the selection of some social outcome that affects a number of individuals, when those individuals have diverse and conflicting preferences. The chapter characterizes desirable properties of the outcome that is to be selected, properties that usually ...
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Efficient Social Network Summarisation

2019 IEEE Pune Section International Conference (PuneCon), 2019
Nowadays social media is playing important role in human life. Spreading of information is referred as information diffusion. While propagating information observing individual transmission i.e. who infects whom is very important. Few existing studies aim to study on static pattern but it is very difficult to trace the origin of information on evolving
Rupali Molawade   +2 more
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Efficiency in Socialization

American Journal of Sociology, 1925
Socialization and efficiency defined. How point of view differs from that of psychology of individual differences. The problem stated. Factors upon which efficiency in socialization is dependent. Summary of investigations in the field. Original data given covering choice of associates, selection of leaders, and controlling ideals.
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Social Efficiency and Social Complicity

This chapter stresses the importance of understanding practice as the very mode of existing in the world. But while practical being can take many forms, the chapter stresses the importance of routinized practices. The latter are the very stuff from which the social world is made.
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Social Duty and Efficiency

2000
No combination of a tax system and the pursuit of self-interest in economic life will produce freedom, efficiency and equality. That was the lesson of the previous two chapters. This chapter presents a different attempt at avoiding the trilemma, one which makes use of a scheme of social duty.
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Socially-Efficient Tax Reforms [PDF]

open access: possible, 2002
We propose graphical methods to determine whether commodity-tax changes are "socially efficient", in the sense of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. We also derive estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially-efficient ...
Duclos, Jean-Yves   +2 more
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Efficiency in Social Care

1984
It is scarcity which forces us to make choices, and not just in times of recession and cutback. The scarcity of resource inputs means that careful decisions need to be made as to their employment in the production of social care or their employment elsewhere. The scarcity of intermediate outputs means that the allocation of services to clients (or vice
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