the main questions of paper are what are indicators of social development? what is the weight of each of the selected social development indices with weights valuation (entropy), based on 2007 data in iran? how is rating of social development indicators based on the weight of them in iran's provinces and what is the relationship between the scores of social capital and social development s...

introduction regional inequality on social and economic grounds is one of the important obstacle in economic development. thus, one of the main issues for policy making and planning in designing a comprehensive social and economic plan is the balanced development in different regions. the recognition of each region situation in relation to other cases is a necessary factor in decreasing inequal...

purpose: using both ideational and social influences’ indicators, this study tries to identify and analyze the most influential researchers in imetrics. to do so, the researchers used a combination of h family indexes (h-index, g-index, and contemporary h-index) and co-authorship centralities (degree, betweenness, and closeness) for calculating ideational and social influences, respectively.met...

Article history: Received 10 November 2007 Received in revised form 14May 2008 Accepted 14 May 2008 Available online 14 June 2008 The paper analyzes the contribution of K. William Kapp, widely considered one of the founders of Ecological Economics. This paper will demonstrate how K. William Kapp developed his theory of social costs into a framework for environmental policy development, i.e. the...

the aim of this paper is to investigate the role of producer cooperatives (pcs) on rural development in fars, khorasan, semnan, golestan and hamadan provinces of iran in 2007. more specifically, this paper focuses on the economic aspects and social changes occurred in rural area concerning the cooperatives development. in order to measure quantitatively the effectiveness of economic and social ...

OBJECTIVES Racial differences in self-rated health at older ages are well documented. African Americans consistently report poorer health, even when education, income, and other health status indicators are controlled. The extent to which neighborhood-level characteristics mediate this association remains largely unexplored. We ask whether neighborhood social and economic resources help to expl...

background: current evidence consistently confirm inequalities in health status among socioeconomic groups, gender, ethnicity, geographical area and other social determinants of health (sdh), which adversely influence health of the population. sdh refer to a wide range of factors not limited to social component, but also involve economic, cultural, educational, political or environmental proble...