The Impact of Education and Culture on Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Panel Data of European Countries
AbstractThe 2030 Agenda has among its key objectives the poverty eradication through increasing the level of education. A good level of education and investment in culture of a country is in fact necessary to guarantee a sustainable economy, in which coexists satisfactory levels of quality of life and an equitable distribution of income. There is a lack of studies in particular on the relations between some significant dimensions, such as education, culture and poverty, considering time lags for the measurement of impacts. Therefore, this study aims to fill this gap by focusing on the relationship between education, cultur...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Impact of Social and Institutional Indicators on the Homicide Rate in Ecuador: An Analysis Using Advanced Time Series Techniques
AbstractOver the last three decades, Ecuador has shifted from being one of the most violent countries in Latin America to being one of the safest countries. Recently, however, it became a country with high rates of intentional homicides again. This research aims to examine the impact of social (economic progress and unemployment) and institutional (corruption and government efficiency) indicators on the rate of intentional homicides in Ecuador during the 1990 –2020 period. We use cointegration techniques with structural breaks and single-frequency Fourier cumulative causality models. The findings of the Hatemi (ME 35, 49...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A Model for Evaluating Inequalities in Sustainability
AbstractOn 25 September 2015, theUnited Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, which includes seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, among them the 10th Goal aims to reduce inequalities. Convinced of the importance of this goal, in this paper we propose to study the socio-economic determinants which affect the inequalities among the 20 Italian regions by applying a suitable regression model. The socio-economic literature suggests that the most important determinants of inequalities are government spending, income, employment and educational attainment, so we focus our attention on t...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Impact of Social and Institutional Indicators on the Homicide Rate in Ecuador: An Analysis Using Advanced Time Series Techniques
AbstractOver the last three decades, Ecuador has shifted from being one of the most violent countries in Latin America to being one of the safest countries. Recently, however, it became a country with high rates of intentional homicides again. This research aims to examine the impact of social (economic progress and unemployment) and institutional (corruption and government efficiency) indicators on the rate of intentional homicides in Ecuador during the 1990 –2020 period. We use cointegration techniques with structural breaks and single-frequency Fourier cumulative causality models. The findings of the Hatemi (ME 35, 49...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A Model for Evaluating Inequalities in Sustainability
AbstractOn 25 September 2015, theUnited Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, which includes seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, among them the 10th Goal aims to reduce inequalities. Convinced of the importance of this goal, in this paper we propose to study the socio-economic determinants which affect the inequalities among the 20 Italian regions by applying a suitable regression model. The socio-economic literature suggests that the most important determinants of inequalities are government spending, income, employment and educational attainment, so we focus our attention on t...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Modeling Opportunity Indicators Fostering Social Entrepreneurship: A Hybrid Delphi and Best-Worst Approach
This study aims to address this phenomenon by extensively identifying the opportunity indicators that promote entrepreneurs to pursue social entrepreneurship.We accomplish this by employing a mixed-methods approach wherein we used both quantitative and qualitative data from experts and analysed it using a hybrid approach of Delphi rounds and the best-worst method. We identified 13 opportunity indicators from the literature, and in the first round of Delphi, four new indicators were added to the list by a panel of 24 experts drawn from industry and academia across India. In the second round of the Delphi method, 18 of the 2...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A Framework to Assess and Monitor Human Rights to Water and Sanitation at the Municipal Scale: A Study case in the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region
AbstractWith the aim of contributing to the development of indicators for the evaluation and monitoring of the realization of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation (HRtWS) at a municipal scale, an analysis of the experience gained in the municipalities of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais, Brazil) is presented. By applying international guidelines and recommendations at the municipal level, a system of indicators and indices was developed focusing on the dimensions of the normative content of both rights, which can be addressed with quantitative measures —availability, physical accessibility, aff...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Changes in Subjective Well-Being in India
AbstractDespite the growing literature on subjective well-being (SWB), few studies have focused on developing countries. Applying robust OLS and ordered probit models to the India Human Development Survey panel data in 2005 and 2012, we empirically assess SWBchanges in 2005 –2012, based on a self-reported measure of changes in economic well-being, as a function of household and state covariates in 2005. This is in sharp contrast with earlier studies’ focus on thelevels of SWB. Another point of departure of our study is to compare the covariates of SWB changes with those of objective well-being (OWB) changes, proxied by...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Development of Social Welfare Policies in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Countries: Globalization and Democracy
This article investigates the impact of globalization and democracy on the aggregate and disaggregates levels of social spending for the selected SAARC countries from the period 1996 –2018. The investigation includes how governments react to the challenges of globalization with the welfare policy decisions that are located more toward reducing cost ("efficiency theory") otherwise ensuring individuals' government assistance ("compensation theory"). The results support both the efficiency and compensation thesis depending on which type of globalization indicator is taken under consideration, however, it...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Social Cohesion and Firms ’ Access to Finance in Africa
AbstractSocial cohesion has recently gained increasing attention in academic and policy circles. Apart from being a necessary feature of stable societies per se, social cohesion is also a key factor for sustainable economic development. One potential means through which social cohesion could foster economic development is by enhancing financial development. In this paper, I examine whether social cohesion is significantly associated with firms ’ access to finance in Africa. To this end, I use a recently constructed dataset on social cohesion in Africa, which contains indices for the three pillars of social cohesion – t...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Inequality Dynamics in Urban Manipur, India: A Decomposition Analysis
This study examines the role of spatial factors in determining consumption inequality in the state, especially in urban areas considering the unit-level National Sample Survey data from different rounds. Also, the Regression-Based Inequality Decomposition is estimated to understand the role played by relevant household characteristics in explaining the inequality patterns in urban Manipur. The study observes an increasing trend of Gini coefficient for the overall state despite its slow per-capita growth. While Gini measures of consumption have an overall increasing trend in the economy between 1993 and 2011, and inequality...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Development of Social Welfare Policies in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Countries: Globalization and Democracy
This article investigates the impact of globalization and democracy on the aggregate and disaggregates levels of social spending for the selected SAARC countries from the period 1996 –2018. The investigation includes how governments react to the challenges of globalization with the welfare policy decisions that are located more toward reducing cost ("efficiency theory") otherwise ensuring individuals' government assistance ("compensation theory"). The results support both the efficiency and compensation thesis depending on which type of globalization indicator is taken under consideration, however, it...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research