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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"national accounts"”.
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A reconsideration of the commercial banking imputation in the official US national accounts
… industry according to the conventions of the National Income and Product Accounts are a subset of a much larger philosophical question. This query deals with the definition and identification of the output produced by all of the so-called “tertiary” industries, of which banking is just a small …
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The moments of, and movements for national accounts: contextualising changes to British national accounting during the 1930s to 1950s
The moments of, and movements for national accounts: contextualising changes to British national accounting during the 1930s to 1950s Matthew Philip James Fright Abstract Despite a renewed interest in the origins of national income accounting, and increasing scholarship on the relationship this has …
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An evaluation of expenditure in the private health care sector and its reporting in the national accounts of South Africa
There is currently much work underway internationally to improve the accuracy and to refine the detail of accounting for health care expenditures. This research was initiated by the increasing activity in the field of national health accounting, as well as by previous research indicating that the …
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A woman's reckoning: a feminist analysis of the power of the internationally accepted conception and implementation of the United Nations System of National Accounts
The United Nations System of National Accounts (UNSNA) was the formal and global institutionalization of the development of national accounts over a period of several centuries. Each man responsible for the development is historically located within a government in the midst of mercantile, colonial …
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Some characteristics and shortcomings of quarterly gross domestic product estimates in South Africa
… century attempts were made to estimate national economies. The development of the theory and practice of national accounts gained momentum during the 1940's. Under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) National …
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National accounting statistics for the less developed economies (with special reference to Transkei)
… measurement of macroeconomic activity is called national accounting, or national income accounting. Like all other branches of economics national accounting has evolved considerably over the past three centuries. Initially, different countries developed their own national accounting systems, …
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South Africa's generational economy
… economic flows at each age are quantified by the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) methodology, providing a view of the so-called generational economy and allowing us to see how different age groups produce, consume, share, and save resources at a given point in time. NTAs are constructed from a …
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Marx at 200 – Inquiries into the Measurement of Profitability and its Determinants: The US Economy, 1950-2016
… guiding how the data provided in the national accounts should be translated for purposes of empirical research. Informed by a theoretical, methodological and empirical survey of the relevant literature, the thesis engages in a value-theoretical re-specification of Marx’s fundamental …
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Role and procedures of natural resources accounting (NRA) : an NRA framework for Botswana
… to correct the deficiencies of the SNA Satellite accounts are suggested for resource based sectors in the Botswana economy, in order to augment national accounts. It is stressed that economic growth is only correctly reflected if the accounting prices used reflect full opportunity costs i.e. …
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Clarifying Decision Making Processes: Tools for Interdependency Modeling
… My dataset informs existing Distributional National Accounts (DINA), which are a primary measure of income inequality in the US (Piketty et al., 2018). My estimate shows Government education spending is more progressive than assumed in current DINA. Furthermore, I show that removing federal …
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The role of mining in the economy of South West Africa/ Namibia
While compiling the national accounts for SWA/Namibia over the past seven years my interest was drawn to the overwhelming impact mining has on the country's overall economic activity. This tempted me to make a study of the contribution of mining to the economic development of SWA/Namibia. This …
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Assessing the accuracy of the Penn World Tables
… cited empirical studies on growth and international finance. It displays a set of national accounts time series covering developed and developing countries. Its expenditure entries are denominated in a common set of prices in a common currency so that real international quantity comparisons …
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Testing the application of social accounting matrix-based structural path analysis to urban agriculture in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
… on the performance of an activity in local and national accounts and compilation of local SAMs. The lack of a local SAM for Lukhanji could not allow feeding the collected primary data into such a local SAM for analysis using the SimSIP SAM software. As a result of the dominance of subsistence …
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Accounting for Wetlands in Biocapacity: Data Integration, Sensitivity Analysis, and Implications
… on wetland area and productivity to construct national accounts for Iceland, Sweden, and Germany from 1961 to the present. A sensitivity analysis evaluates how alternative data sources and methodological choices influence results relative to a 2022 reference scenario. Findings reveal that …
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Difficulties of catching-up in Central-Eastern Europe
… data which were linked to the system of national accounts. In this way I was able to organise different data sources of the National Tax and Customs Administration and the Hungarian Central Statistical Office to a consistent system.Beside and strongly connected to the input-output table …
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Essays on Methods to Support Ecosystem Accounting
… the same accounting principles as the System of National Accounts. Among the frameworks developed over time for this purpose, the System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) was adopted by the United Nations as an international statistical standard in 2021, …
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Dissecting the metabolism of South Africa's power house: Mpumalanga
… boundaries. This involves regionalising national accounts to the province's unique context, ascertaining the need for and availability of additional data, and developing provincial metabolic indicators. The concept of social metabolism has gained recognition for its utility in …
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Redefining the Economy: how the 'economy' was invented 1620
… of how we have measured the economy through national accounts. GDP, it turns out, is simply the most recent consensus definition of what the economy is. So this is the history of how we have defined, measured and redefined the economy since its invention in the 1620s. Using primary sources I …
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Essays on International Macroeconomics and Trade
… Similar patterns have been found in international trade data on prices and quantities. I use a two-country general equilibrium model with trade in nondifferentiated and differentiated goods to shed light on the reasons behind these sectoral differences. I focus on two mechanisms: …
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