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Economic growth and social indicators: an exploratory analysis

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Social and political factors can affect a country's economic growth. Such forces include education, cultural tolerance, criminal pathology, political stability and population growth rate. Factors can be grouped in associational matrices that show favorable forces work together. The webs of association must be carefully analyzed to show specific cause and effect patterns.

Author: Fedderke, Johannes, Klitgaard, Robert
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Name: Economic Development & Cultural Change
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0013-0079
Year: 1998
Social indicators

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Nonfarm activity and rural household income: evidence from Philippine microdata

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Off-farm and nonfarm income, or income not associated with agricultural activities, such as income derived from temporary migration for overseas contract work, may increase economic development in a less developed region or village, but is is not an effective way to alleviate poverty.

Author: Leones, J.P., Feldman, S.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Name: Economic Development & Cultural Change
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0013-0079
Year: 1998
Economic aspects, Resource-based communities, Resource based communities

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Subjects list: Analysis, Economic development
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