This paper examines the causal relationship among composite indicators for real, monetary/financial, social and infrastructure development in Pakistan. This is an effort to provide evidence on the two highly debatable issues, i.e. money-real causality and social-economic causality in a single multivariate framework. We use a large number of variables to construct the composite indicators of dev...

Purpose: With the help of newly developed Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index, this paper attempts to find influence if any, EPU on stock markets and certain key economic indicators in India. Methodology /Approach: The focus is markets, industrial production, new capital issues, exports bank credit commercial sector. Monthly data collected for 66 months from January 2014 tested with OLS Qua...

The paper studies the statistical correlation between the return on assets and some measures of financial balance. The research relies on the assumptions that the financial balance influences most of the indicators of performances of a company. Therefore, we chose the return on assets as dependent variable, as it represents the final result of the company’s business. As independent variables, m...

National statistical institutes have recently presented a set of indicators for sustainable development. The indicators present different topics and the simultaneous achievement of different goals. That is, economic, social and environmental goals. Statistics Denmark also presented a series of indicators for sustainable development in 2003. However, policy analysis of sustainable development re...

The paper extends existing work on inequality and economic development by estimating a cross-country structural model that identifies bi-directional relationships between income inequality and other indicators of social and economic development. Overall, lower inequality is associated with improvements in other development indicators, but this is the result of several complex interactions. The ...

Innovation is becoming more and more important as a driver of economic growth. In developed countries, a diverse set of innovation indicators has been developed to monitor innovation performance and the impact of innovation policies. Developing countries have been late to jump on this bandwagon and are now faced with a set of well‐established innovation indicators that might not be that well su...

To the Editor: The African region bears more than 24% of the global burden of disease, but has access to less than 1% of the financial resources. [1] Access to healthcare is a significant concern in South Africa (SA), and financial cost is a recognised cause of lack of access to adequate healthcare. Furthermore, increasing healthcare costs affect healthcare decisions taken by poorer households,...

We consider the potential for using prices as leading indicators of changes in stocks and yields in the freshwater capture fishery in Lake Victoria. Fertilizer run-off from agricultural land is a major cause of nutrient loading, along with soil erosion, atmospheric deposition, and point pollution from industrial and domestic affluent. The interactions between fertilizer applications, water qual...

Low carbon economy is full of significance to realize sustainable development of a city. After making a review of global low carbon community construction by summarizing their features and routes, the authors set up a low-carbon economical evaluation system which consists of 3 layers, 3 systems and 14 indicators. What’s more, PCA (principal component analysis) and AHP (analytic hierarchy proces...

BACKGROUND: Health and nutrition inequality is a result of a complex web of factors that include socio-economic inequalities. Various socio-economic indicators exist however some do not accurately predict inequalities in children. Others are not intervention feasible. OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of four socio-economic indicators namely: mothers' education, fathers' education, househol...