economic welfare

collocation in English

meaningsofeconomicandwelfare

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economic
adjective
uk
/ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪk/
us
/ˌiː.kəˈnɑː.mɪk/
relating to trade, industry, ...
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welfare
noun[U]
uk
/ˈwel.feər/
us
/ˈwel.fer/
help given, especially by the state or an organization, to people who need it, especially because they do not have ...
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(Definition ofeconomicandwelfarefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The result is the classic tradeoff between environmental quality andeconomicwelfare.
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Theeconomicwelfarewill be measured by the sum of consumer surplus and profit.
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In addition to this, the communal regime and voluntary poverty had an impact on the convent'seconomicwelfare.
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The difficulty, therefore, is that an inability to access theeconomicwelfareand security that social citizenship promises inhibits any prospect of real inclusion.
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This issue is particularly relevant for developing countries where natural capital is a vital component ofeconomicwelfare.
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Likewise, the efficiency issue is a question of whether corporate organization and privatizations have a positive or negative effect on the efficiency of individual organizations and aggregateeconomicwelfare.
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From the mid-1970s this expansion began to slow and its positive effect on theeconomicwelfareof the elderly declined.
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The equation for t* (which results from unconstrained maximization of country 2's welfare) equates the marginal environmental gain with the marginal loss ineconomicwelfare.
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Despite successive governments' remarkable ability to enact and implement sweeping changes, the promised payoff in improvedeconomicwelfarewas slow to materialize.
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The above expressions show that theeconomicwelfareof country 2 will be adversely affected by the carbon tax.
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Unresolved issues concern which perspective to adopt, which future costs should be included, and whether to base decisions oneconomicwelfaretheory.
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They argue that water markets can improveeconomicwelfareby reallocating both water and risk according to the productivity of water use and relative risk preferences.
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The role of social citizenship generally is to give effect to the right of individual citizens toeconomicwelfareand security, traditionally achieved through access to employment.
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In other words, aid was seen as the most important instrument for promoting national and global interests, especially in ensuring domesticeconomicwelfare.
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While the degree to which the state may intervene in theeconomicwelfareof the elderly varies, the means it may apply to these ends are less diverse.
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Equation (28) can be used to quantify the effects of policy changes oneconomicwelfare.
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Citizens in over-represented, poor and rural districts may use their political clout to secure policy interventions that improve theireconomicwelfare.
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Potential economic policies to entice local management changes in order to generate globally or regionally optimaleconomicwelfareare then explored.
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The complex interweaving of changingeconomicwelfare, social coherence and political power makes the assessment of outcomes as difficult for those involved as for the social science observer.
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