Measures of national income and output
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Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States* Open
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Indian Income Inequality, 1922‐2015: From British Raj to Billionaire Raj? Open
We combine household surveys and national accounts, as well as recently released tax data to track the dynamics of Indian income inequality from 1922 to 2015. According to our benchmark estimates, the top 1 percent of earners captured less…
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How income and food prices influence global dietary intakes by age and sex: evidence from 164 countries Open
Background While income and prices are key drivers of dietary choices, how their influence varies by food category, nation, and demographics is not well established. Based on intake data for 164 countries and 11 food categories, we examine…
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The association between national income and adult obesity prevalence: Empirical insights into temporal patterns and moderators of the association using 40 years of data across 147 countries Open
Population obesity prevalence exhibits a positive relationship with national income and there is no evidence that the relationship, while weakening, actually turns negative at higher income levels ("obesity Kuznets curve"). Based on curren…
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The nexus of agricultural water use and economic development level Open
For many countries in the world, especially developing countries, the agricultural sector contributes low income to the country. However, this sector consumes the largest amount of water. Water is essential for the production of agricultur…
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The impact of income inequality and national wealth on child and adolescent mortality in low and middle-income countries Open
Policies to reduce income inequality, rather than prioritising economic growth at all costs, may be needed to improve adolescent mortality in low and middle-income countries, a key development priority.
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Cultural Dimensions of Economic Development: A Case of UAE Open
Economic development, which is sought all over, is a long-term increase in national and per capita income for higher consumption and happiness. It may seem lacking in finer things that go under the name of culture. As such, this study sets…
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The Impact of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth in Developing Countries Open
Will the improvement of life expectancy contributes to economic growth in a country? The response to this question is essential in the debates on health policy in the world in general and in developing countries (DC) in particular. The obj…
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<span>G</span>lobal effects of income and income inequality on adult height and sexual dimorphism in height Open
Objectives Average adult height of a population is considered a biomarker of the quality of the health environment and economic conditions. The causal relationships between height and income inequality are not well understood. We analyze d…
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How Do Floods and Drought Impact Economic Growth and Human Development at the Sub-National Level in India? Open
This paper tries to shift the focus of research on the impact of natural disasters on economic growth from global and national levels to sub-national levels. Inadequate sub-national level information is a significant lacuna for planning sp…
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National culture's influence on environmental performance of countries: A study of direct and indirect effects Open
The effect of national culture on country environmental performance has received attention during the past few years. However, previous studies considered a subset of cultural dimensions, focused on diverse environmental performance measur…
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Wealth-Income Ratios in a Small, Developing Economy: Sweden, 1810–2014 Open
This study uses new data on Swedish national wealth over the last two hundred years to examine whether the patterns in wealth-income ratios found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) extend to small and less developed economies. The findings revea…
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Can Reducing Income Inequality Decouple Economic Growth from CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions? Open
In the past two decades, income inequality has steadily increased in most developed nations. During this same period, the growth rate of CO 2 emissions has declined in many developed nations, cumulating to a recent period of decoupling bet…
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Small and Medium Scale Enterprises and Economic Growth in Nigeria: 1975-2012 Open
This paper empirically examines Small and Medium Scale Enterprises and Nigeria’s economic growth from 1970-2012. The benefits of SMEs to any economy are easily noticeable. These includes: creation of jobs, provide a vehicle for reducing in…
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Transition to a new economy: transformation trends in the field of income and salary functions Open
The rapid spread of information technologies and other phenomena in the new economy causes significant changes in the social and employment spheres. The objective is mainly to analyze and systematize the peculiarities of labor and payment …
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Developing an Input-Output Based Method to Estimate a National-Level Energy Return on Investment (EROI) Open
Concerns have been raised that declining energy return on energy investment (EROI) from fossil fuels, and low levels of EROI for alternative energy sources, could constrain the ability of national economies to continue to deliver economic …
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Income Distribution and Growth Models: A Sectoral Balances Approach Open
This article revisits the macroeconomic foundations and political economy of national growth models. It argues that the neo-Kaleckian model, which inspired the emergent growth model perspective and focuses primarily on the functional incom…
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Chinese National Income, ca. 1661–1933 Open
In recent decades, national income has become increasingly important as a measure of a nation's economic health. In this study, we used a wide array of primary and secondary sources to arrive at values of the Chinese per capita gross domes…
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The impact of Nanshan National Park concession policy on farmers' income in China Open
National parks shoulder two essential responsibilities: environmental protection and community development, so the development of national parks has attracted much attention. To explore the effectiveness of China's national park system in …
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GDP, Wellbeing, and Health: Thoughts on the 2017 Round of the International Comparison Program Open
In March 2020, the International Comparison Project published its latest results, for the calendar year 2017. This round presents common‐unit or purchasing‐power‐parity data for 176 countries on Gross Domestic Product and its components. W…
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The Political Economy of the Water Footprint: A Cross-National Analysis of Ecologically Unequal Exchange Open
Water scarcity is an important social and ecological issue that is becoming increasingly problematic with the onset of climate change. This study explores the extent to which water resources in developing countries are affected by the vert…
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Understanding national-government policies regarding globalization: A trade-finance analysis Open
Why different national governments have different policies regarding globalization? This is an important research topic of government and economics. In the paper, I analyze how different income groups have different attitudes towards globa…
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Wealth, Competitiveness, and Intellectual Capital – Sources for Economic Development Open
National wealth, national competitiveness and national intellectual capital were major objectives of a nation in the last century. By this paper we identify strong interrelations between national wealth, national competitiveness and nation…
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The Efficient Corruption Hypothesis and the Dynamics Between Economic Freedom, Corruption, and National Income Open
Corruption is an endemic problem in many developing economies. As a result, economists and political scientists have extensively studied corruption and its relationship to economic prosperity. An important mediating factor is the level of …
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Blue Economy Indonesia to Increase National Income through the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) in the Order to Empower the World Maritime Axis and Strengthen State Defense Open
The joining of Indonesia as one of the states in the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), is an opportunity and correlates with one of the policies of the Government of President Jokowi in an effort to realize Indonesia as the World Mariti…
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A Consistent Data Series to Evaluate Growth and Inequality in the National Accounts Open
Recent headlines frequently refer to rising inequality and its implication on economic growth and social welfare. Addressing the latter is difficult and requires more than simply looking at GDP, as Kuznets long ago pointed out. In this pap…
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Economic growth of the country and national intellectual capital (evidence from the post-socialist countries of the central and eastern Europe) Open
The purpose of the article is to study the innovation levers of developing the intellectual background for economic growth in two groups of post-socialist Central and Eastern European countries (middle-income and lower-middle-income countr…
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Social food practices of children in the low-income Russian families Open
The article is based on the results of the study of social practices of nutrition of children in low-income Russian families. The authors consider approaches to the study of food practices as a historically and culturally determined phenom…
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Impact of economic globalisation on value-added agriculture, globally Open
Economic globalisation is the integration of national economies into the global economy through the increasing flow of goods, services, capital, and technology across borders and it has contributed to garnering a significant portion of mos…
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Thirlwall’s Law and uneven development under Global Value Chains: a multi-country input–output approach Open
A notable macroeconomic explanation of uneven development, with particular relevance to developing countries, has been the problem of balance of payments constraints, as captured by Thirlwall’s Law: where relative growth rates are explaine…