Ibar Alonso, Raquel
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- Convergence and interaction in the new media: typologies of prosumers among university students
2015-04-01 Most young people today are digital natives where the use of new media, is issued by the participation in a creative way and with a high degree of interaction. The emergence of tools making it easy without having high digital skills, has led the grown of prosumers. The aim of the paper is the analysis of the different profiles of this typology of users within the Madrid universities and its interest is settle not only to inquire about the convergent use of technology but also if their interests and motivations really focus on the consumption of new media content or if they participate in a creative way through new technologies, establishing new patterns that enhance interactivity and new business models in media.
- Grouping foreign aid and the Multidimensional Poverty Index: a cluster analysis
2021 The paper deals with the effects of foreign aid on the changes in the Multidimensional Poverty Index over time. The goal is to group data on foreign aid (considered under a variety of measures and instruments), the MPI and changes on their headcount and their intensity components, and public expenditure on education and health, for a sample of 60 observations (50 countries) and the period 1999-2014. As information is only available as a crosscountry section, the methodology used is a three steps cluster and discriminant analysis. In the first step, the cluster was carried out with six different sectorial foreign aid, closely linked to the ten MPI indicators. In a second step, the clusters were performed among the changes in the ten MPI indicators. In the third step, aid, MPI indicators and public expenditures on education and health were considered. The main results are three groups of countries in each step. Only few countries remain always in the same group. Although there is a remarkable heterogeneity across countries and groups among the aid types allocated on them, all countries belonging to the second group received a significant amount of aid.