The four profitability measures recommended by the Farm Financial Standards Task Force have limitations for examining wealth creation. Non-farm corporations, by contrast, have started to use Economic Value Added (EVA) to measure wealth creation. EVA has some advantages over other financial ratios because it fully accounts for the resources used on the farm and it includes both realized and unre...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the capacity of an expanded set of force steadiness tasks to explain the variance in the time it takes young men and women to complete the grooved pegboard test. In a single experimental session, 30 participants (mean ± SD) (24.2 ± 4.0 yr; 15 women) performed the grooved pegboard test, two tests of hand speed, measurements of muscle strength, and a set o...

Recent work draws attention to the fragility of domestic tax revenues—a vital resource for developing world—to illicit financial flows. To cope with two major challenges in flows–tax revenues relationship—related mere flows measurement and reverse causality—this paper exploits Financial Action Task Force data using an impact assessment analysis. Estimations reveal a significant revenue loss cou...

Economic inequality, in particular vertical inequality income and wealth within countries, 1 has widened considerably with potentially dramatic economic, political social consequences. 2 Reflecting the need for urgent action on United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10 focuses reduction of various forms between countries. 3 In that context, a number recent interventions have sought ...