Living Standard – HIPC

The Standard of Living

Can HIPC Reduce Poverty in Tanzania?

While growth has increased in Tanzania during the past five or six years, it is still too low to have a visible impact on poverty. Indeed, recent evidence suggests that the amount of both income and non-income poverty are roughly the same as they were a decade ago. Since debt relief provided under HIPC will free government resources, the initiative will potentially help reduce poverty through l...

Introduction to HiPC Workshops 3 and 4

Two back-to-back half day workshops on complementary but synergistic topics DDDAS/Infosymbiotics Applications and DDDAS/Infosymbiotics Software and Infrastructure have been organized for HiPC 2015 to be held on Day 1 of the conference. Workshop 3 to be held in the morning will cover InfoSymbiotics/Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS) for Smarter Systems; Workshop 4 in the afternoon ...

The Influence of Standard of Living

THE HURRY and worry that accompany Western civilization are often invoked as etiologic factors in hypertension. In Fiji and the Gilbert Islands some populations do not show the higher blood pressures of later life characteristic of Western populations.1 It is tempting to associate the apparently indolent, secure, and unhurried life of the Pacific Islander with this relative freedom from hyperte...

Biological measures of the standard of living.

When economists investigate long-term trends and socioeconomic differences in the standard of living or quality of life, they have traditionally focused on monetary measures such as gross domestic product--which has occupied center stage for over 50 years. In recent decades, however, scholars have increasingly recognized the limitations of monetary measures while seeking useful alternatives. Th...