scholarly journals Socio-economic Analysis of Development of Regions

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-178
Author(s):  
Viktor Šoltés ◽  
Katarína Repková Štofková ◽  
Milan Kutaj
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
Objective Indicators

The quality of life is affected by many factors, which can be combined according to the similar attributes into some dimensions. A major impact on quality of life has a feeling of security. The quality of life is directly related to the development of regions that can be examined through subjective and objective indicators as well as the security situation. The paper is going to deal with selected socio-economic indicators of regional development that directly affect the safety of citizens, and therefore their quality of life. There will be evaluated primary socio-economic indicators of regional development such as regional gross domestic product, the level of economic activity, the rate of regional employment and unemployment, the average regional wages. Trough comparison of the above indicators can be seen if the qualities of life in Slovak regions have been positive and what is the position of regions in terms of development.   Keywords: Quality of life, regional development, regional disparities, socio-economic indicators;

Measuring Progress: Is Life Getting Better?

1998 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Performance ◽  
Health And Well Being

This book is the most wide-ranging exploration of national progress yet undertaken, spanning social, economic and environmental perspectives. It brings together some of Australia’s leading researchers to consider indicators of national performance, what they tell us about the quality and sustainability of life in Australia, and how these measures can be improved. It also includes commentaries by senior bureaucrats, academics and community representatives. At one level, the debate is about the adequacy of Gross Domestic Product, as the dominant indicator of a nation’s performance, relative to both the past and other nations. However, the debate also reaches far beyond this question to challenge conventional thinking about progress and the relationships between economic activity, quality of life, health and well-being, and ecological sustainability.

scholarly journals How to Measure Progress Towards Quality and Sustainability of Life?

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Nováček ◽  
Peter Mederly
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
Relevant Alternative ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Life Index ◽  
Good For

AbstractThe vagueness of the concept of ‘sustainable development’ ceased to serve as a consensus platform and instead became a source of controversy. Therefore an instrument is needed to measure whether we are striving towards sustainable development or not. Today the most widely used indicator of economic prosperity is gross domestic product (GDP). It is often incorrectly interpreted as an indicator of quality of life. If, however, GDP is considered to be quality-of-life indicator, it is a misleading indicator as GDP does not cover the services people conduct outside the official market. As a result, environmentalists together with economists have long been cooperating in designing an alternative indicator capable of better capturing the development of society. Even though GDP is good for measuring economic performance, it is highly misleading as an indicator of the quality and sustainability of life. This article describes briefly the most relevant alternative indicators to GDP developed during last two decades including Czech and Slovak methodology of the Quality and Sustainability of Life Index.

scholarly journals Competitive intelligence tools used by small and medium-sized enterprises

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-200
Author(s):  
Tshilidzi Eric Nenzhelele
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) contribute highly to the gross domestic product, reduction in unemployment, wealth creation and improvement in the quality of life. Due to technology and globalisation, SMEs now compete with enterprises beyond the borders of their country. To survive in this global competitive business environment, SMEs seek for tools that offer competitive advantage. Competitive Intelligence (CI) provides competitive advantage to enterprises that practice it. While CI practice has been widely research for larger enterprises, there is lack of research on CI practice pertaining to SMEs. This research establishes tools used by SMEs in CI practice. The research was quantitative in nature and a self-administered questionnaire was used to collected data from owners/managers of SMEs.

scholarly journals Methodical approach to assessing the level of the households` livelihoods

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Svitlana Honcharova ◽  
Iryna Buriak ◽  
Andriy Honcharov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Vital Activity ◽  
Household Saving ◽  
Methodical Approach ◽  
Objective Indicators

In modern conditions households play an important role in the country's economy. Improving their effective functioning and quality of life of the population is one of the priority tasks of socio-economic development of the country. The set of subjective and objective indicators for determining the level of vital activity of households using an expert method, which based on a collective notebook, is substantiated. The expert group involved leading experts in the field of studying the population’s quality of life, the development of socio-economic and innovative processes; the method of "Snowball" is used for this study. It is proved that peculiarities of activity of households in the conditions of a new economy require the allocation of three system-forming groups of indicators: social, economic, innovation and educational life, the use of which provides a deeper and more comprehensive assessment of households' livelihoods. It is substantiated that in the group of indicators of economic life it is expedient to use two new indicators for households, such as household profitability index and household saving index, which provides a deeper assessment of the index of economic activity of households by expanding their economic opportunities. The distribution of the studied regions of Ukraine according to the level of vital activity of households was carried out using the Harrington scale. To visualize the results of the distribution, the means of “Front-end development” were used and the Illustrative map of Ukraine was built. Recommendations for improving the living standards of households in Ukraine aimed at, first of all, increasing the attention of the state authorities to the socio-economic activity of households are proposed. The methodical approach to the assessment of household living standards is based on the use of the proposed system of indicators consisting of three system-forming groups (social, economic and innovation-educational activities) that are integrated into the integral index (household living standards index) by the taxonomy method.

scholarly journals Health, Quality of Life, and Economic Impacts of Home Care Vouchers for Middle-Income Adults With Disabilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 78-78
Author(s):  
Joanne Spetz ◽  
Jacqueline Miller ◽  
Connie Kwong ◽  
Laura Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Home Care ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Financial Stress ◽  
Emergency Department Visits ◽  
Middle Income

Abstract The Support at Home pilot program provided financial support for the purchase of home care services by middle-income adults with disabilities in San Francisco to support aging in place. Enrollees had income below the area median and made copayments based on household income. The mixed-methods evaluation of the program incorporated administrative records, surveys of clients and comparison group members, surveys of unpaid caregivers, surveys of paid care providers, and focus groups with clients and unpaid caregivers. Outcome measures included the Older People’s Quality of Life Questionnaire, Patient Health Questionnaire-2, an adapted Burden Scale for Family Caregivers, and self-reported falls, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations. Analyses included pre-post chi-squared and t-test comparisons between client and comparison groups and multivariate regressions. An economic analysis was conducted to learn whether changes in costs associated with reduced health care utilization were greater than the costs of the program. Results indicated statistically significant positive changes in client ratings of personal and financial stress, but not in the composite quality of life score. There were statistically significant reductions in attendance at medical appointments, falls, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations. Similar changes were not found in the comparison group. The focus group data supported the findings regarding personal and financial stress and indicated that clients and their caregivers perceived quality of life benefits. The economic analysis indicated substantial cost savings from the program due to reduced use of medical services. Due to its positive impacts, San Francisco has made Support at Home a permanent program.

Availability and Spatial Inequality of Rural Infrastructure in Jungle Mahal Blocks of Purulia District, India

2021 ◽  
pp. 232102492110082
Author(s):  
Uttam Kumar Patra ◽  
Suman Paul
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Spatial Inequality ◽  
Rural Infrastructure ◽  
Financial Infrastructure ◽  
Purulia District ◽  
Dimension Index

Rural infrastructure is fundamental and central to the concept of quality of life as well as human development. The major characteristic of regional development is the constant widening of regional disparity in India after different plan period. Various Finance Commissions and Planning Commissions laid emphasis on the objective of achieving balanced regional development. The article identifies a gap in terms of education, health, communication and financial infrastructure in the study of panchayats of Jungle Mahal blocks. Mapping of regional disparities can aid in effective policymaking at the preliminary stage of planning. Panchayat level inequality has been analysing using dimension index and principal component analysis (PCA). Wide disparities in the availability of rural infrastructure have been pointed out and proper recommendation has also been made to minimise the gap in spatial inequality.

scholarly journals Geographical Indication and Regional Development: Cause or Consequence

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 535
Author(s):  
Alan Malacarne ◽  
Liaria Nunes da Silva ◽  
Camila Souza Vieira ◽  
Ricardo Fontes Macedo ◽  
Andreia Malacarne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
Geographical Indication ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Per Capita

The Geographical Indication is an instrument of protection to products and services that have intrinsic value. The cities of Bento Gonçalves, Flores da Cunha, Monte Belo do Sul, Farroupilha, Paraty, Urussanga, Salinas and Abaíra are highlights in the Brazilian agricultural sector. These regions have territorial demarcations with a Geographical Indication certification, where the producers live in the same region and can sell their own products with this seal of quality. An analysis has as a starting point the following study problem: Is the success of the implementation of a Geographical Indication linked to the development of the region? The results showed that only the Gross Domestic Product per capita is not sufficient to prove a record of Geographic Indication was actually implemented successfully in a certain region or not, however it can be observed that in the developed regions the trend is much higher.

Economic Trends and Government Survival in West European Parliamentary Democracies

1992 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 875-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Warwick
Keyword(s):  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
Partial Likelihood ◽  
Likelihood Method ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
Indicator Values ◽  
Parliamentary Democracies ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Complexity Hypothesis ◽  
Oil Crisis

In this study, I investigate the linkage between trends in key economic indicators (inflation, unemployment, and growth in gross domestic product) and government survival in 16 postwar European parliamentary democracies. The partial likelihood method, which allows for variation in indicator values over the lifetimes of individual governments, constitutes the basic analytic tool. The findings reveal overall causal roles for both inflation and unemployment, as well as important differences in these roles between socialist and bourgeois governments and between pre-oil crisis and post-oil crisis eras. Most significant, the introduction of these indicators to the analysis helps to resolve the debate between two rival explanations of governmental stability, the bargaining complexity hypothesis and the ideological diversity hypothesis, in favor of the latter.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN LITHUANIA COMPARED TO OTHER COUNTRIES

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Štreimikienė ◽  
Neringa Barakauskaitė-Jakubauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Objective Indicators

The paper presents the definition of quality of life and its relationship with sustainable development. The paper analyses and compares the indicators of quality of life in Lithuania with other countries. A quality of life is an explicit or implicit policy goal. Various measurements and indicators to evaluate a quality of life were proposed during the recent years however there are no widely accepted objective indicators of quality of life able to compare countries. Sustainable development concept proposes new approach to measure quality of life. Therefore the aim of sustainable development is to increase quality of life. Quality of life can be addressed in terms of people health, the state of economy, employment, infrastructure development, crime and environment. All these indicators are interrelated as economic development creates preconditions to maintain public health, develop social and technical infrastructure, to increase employment, to ensure quality of environment, to tackle with crime etc. From the other point of view healthy and satisfied with the quality of life nation have positive impact on stable economic growth.

A Canonical Correlation Analysis of Factors that Influence Quality of Life Among Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Based on QLICD-COPD (V2.0)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxi Liu ◽  
Jinghao Ruan ◽  
Chonghua Wan ◽  
Jianfeng Tan ◽  
Bin Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Alkaline Phosphatase ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Canonical Correlation Analysis ◽  
Canonical Correlation ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Objective Indicators

Abstract Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the diseases with the highest morbidity and mortality globally. The Quality of Life Instrument for Chronic Diseases(QLICD)-COPD(V2.0) was designed to assess the health condition of patients with COPD. The objective of this study was to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) of patients, the influential clinical factors, and the relationships between QOL and clinical objective indicators. Methods Two hundred and sixty-one in-patients with COPD in the acute exacerbation stage were evaluated using the QLICD-COPD(V2.0) and data on clinical objective indicators were collected. The relationships between QOL and the clinical objective indicators were determined using canonical correlation analysis. Results The standardized scores for the patients in four domains, namely physical function, psychological function, social function, and a disease-specific module, were 49.00 ± 12.91, 59.89 ± 13.51, 68.59 ± 11.94, and 51.84 ± 13.58, respectively. The total score for the QOL of patients was 57.17 ± 10.26. Two pairs of canonical correlation variables were statistically significant (P < 0.05), with coefficients of 0.35 and 0.26. These variables respectively accounted for 45.8% and 33.8% of the variance. The levels of total protein, albumin, serum sodium, and alkaline phosphatase and the percentages of neutrophils and lymphocytes were correlated with the QOL. Conclusion During COPD treatment, clinicians should pay close attention to the levels of total protein, albumin, serum sodium, and alkaline phosphatase and the percentages of neutrophils and lymphocytes to improve the QOL of patients.

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