David Bigman
Biographic Data
| ID | 10756258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Bigman |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Bigman |
| SIGNATURE | BIGMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Poverty, Hunger, and Democracy in Africa
The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s.These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political problems that divided the continent
Will Democracy Settle or Intensify Civil Conflicts?
Despite the transition of some 40 African countries to democracy, people remain skeptical and suspicious. One discouraging phenomenon mentioned earlier is the renewed wave of military coups that toppled several duly elected democratic governments without much protest from the electorate due to widespread fraud in the voting for these governments. In these and many other countries people have been deeply disillusioned, distrusting the election res…
An Operational Approach to Welfare Considerations in Applied Public-Facility-Location Models
The paper discusses several criteria by which locational alternatives for public facilities should be evaluated, and suggests metrics for quantifying these criteria in terms of the decision variables of the models that are often used in applied public-facility-location problems. Subsequently, multiobjective programming is considered as an important tool in locational analysis, and several applications of vector optimization techniques in that con…
An Operational Approach to Welfare Considerations in Applied Public-Facility-Location Models
The paper discusses several criteria by which locational alternatives for public facilities should be evaluated, and suggests metrics for quantifying these criteria in terms of the decision variables of the models that are often used in applied public-facility-location problems. Subsequently, multiobjective programming is considered as an important tool in locational analysis, and several applications of vector optimization techniques in that con…
An Operational Approach to Welfare Considerations in Applied Public-Facility-Location Models
The paper discusses several criteria by which locational alternatives for public facilities should be evaluated, and suggests metrics for quantifying these criteria in terms of the decision variables of the models that are often used in applied public-facility-location problems. Subsequently, multiobjective programming is considered as an important tool in locational analysis, and several applications of vector optimization techniques in that con…
Poverty, Hunger, and Democracy in Africa
The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s.These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political problems that divided the continent
Will Democracy Settle or Intensify Civil Conflicts?
Despite the transition of some 40 African countries to democracy, people remain skeptical and suspicious. One discouraging phenomenon mentioned earlier is the renewed wave of military coups that toppled several duly elected democratic governments without much protest from the electorate due to widespread fraud in the voting for these governments. In these and many other countries people have been deeply disillusioned, distrusting the election res…
Economics (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (1 works) · Agricultural productivity (1 works)