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  2. Multidimensional Poverty Index - Wikipedia

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    MPI advocates state that the method can be used to create a comprehensive picture of people living in poverty, and permits comparisons both across countries, regions and the world and within countries by ethnic group, urban/rural location, as well as other key household and community characteristics.

  3. Economics of car use - Wikipedia

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    A study attempted to quantify the costs of cars (i.e. of car-use and related decisions and activity such as production and transport/infrastructure policy) in conventional currency, finding that the total lifetime cost of cars in Germany is between 0.6 and 1.0 million euros with the share of this cost born by society being between 41% (€4674 ...

  4. Residual value - Wikipedia

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    It represents the amount of value that the owner of an asset can expect to obtain when the asset of its lease or when it reaches the end of its useful life. [1] [2] Example: A car is sold at a list price of $20,000 today. After a usage of 36 months and 50,000 miles (ca. 80,467 km) its value is contractually defined as $10,000 or 50%.

  5. Mazziotta–Pareto index - Wikipedia

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    The Mazziotta–Pareto index (MPI) is a composite index [1] (OECD, 2008 [2]) for summarizing a set of individual indicators that are assumed to be not fully substitutable. [3] It is based on a non-linear function which, starting from the arithmetic mean of the normalized indicators, introduces a penalty for the units with unbalanced values of the indicators (De Muro et al., 2011 [4]).

  6. Glossary of automotive terms - Wikipedia

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    Also gas pedal. A throttle in the form of a foot-operated pedal, or sometimes a hand-operated lever or paddle, by which the flow of fuel to the engine (and thereby the engine speed) is controlled, with depression of the pedal causing the vehicle to accelerate. admission stroke See induction stroke. aftermarket air brake 1. A type of brake in which the force that actuates the brake mechanism is ...

  7. How to read an auto insurance policy

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    A car insurance declarations page contains a simplified version of your policy information. This includes: Policy number: This is a unique number assigned to your car insurance policy. This helps ...

  8. Externalities of cars - Wikipedia

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    External costs which can arise from using cars and trucks in everyday life are of different kinds (covering also material costs such as damages to buildings and materials), but health costs are the most common. In this case cars might cause cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. [11] Such costs have to be paid by the society as a whole. [8]

  9. What is car insurance? - AOL

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    Car insurance is more than just a legal requirement or another expense to account for in your budget. Car insurance is a contract between you and an insurer that offers financial protection if you ...