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A Data Analysis Of The World Happiness Index And Its Relation To The North-South Divide, Charles Alba
A Data Analysis Of The World Happiness Index And Its Relation To The North-South Divide, Charles Alba
Undergraduate Economic Review
In this document, we perform a detailed data analysis on the World Happiness Report with its relation to the socio-economic North-South Divide. In order to do so, we perform some extensive data cleaning and analysis before querying on the World Happiness Report. Our results based on Hypothesis Testing determines the happiness of the Global North is greater than that of the Global South. Furthermore, our queries show that the mean happiness score for the Global North significantly outweighing that of the South. Likewise, the 10 'Happiest' nations all belong to the Global North whereas the 10 'least happy' nations belong …
A Reply To David Richards’ Review Of Measuring Human Rights, Todd Landman, Edzia Carvalho
A Reply To David Richards’ Review Of Measuring Human Rights, Todd Landman, Edzia Carvalho
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Professor Richards highlights, in his generous review of our book Measuring Human Rights that one of the aims of the book is to bring to the forefront the importance of conceptualization before operationalization – that conceptual clarity (or lack of it) is at the heart of the problems concerning the measurement of human rights. He draws out three key issues from the book as the springboard for further discussion on measurement of the concept – a) the “Respect, Protect and Fulfill” (RPF) framework, b) the lack of reliable data sources, and c) the conceptual links between human rights, human development, …
Tourism Professionals Indicate Research Needs, Robert M. O'Halloran, Donald F. Holecek
Tourism Professionals Indicate Research Needs, Robert M. O'Halloran, Donald F. Holecek
Hospitality Review
County and local tourism officials have a great need for data to help them make their decisions. The authors surveyed professionals to determine data used and needed, the types of decisions made, and where data is obtained. The results provide a profile for information sharing.