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health services, communicational campaigns and organized community networks. Using the 2004 ENSEMAH survey, the analysis … that the adoption of desirable prevention and treatment behaviors correlates with proficient levels of knowledge …
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-10. Likewise, increasing spending on prevention, public treatment subsidies and treatment access will not jeopardize economic …
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between perception and reality in four social domains-health, employment, the perception of security, and social ranking. The … relevant with respect to health and job satisfaction. Cultural differences across countries are pronounced in perceptions of … health, while cultural differences across socioeconomic groups are more apparent with respect to job satisfaction. Affect and …
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This paper provides a rationale for developing countries to announce future credible commitments to reduce GHG emissions even if these are not to materialize in the short run, and for domestic reasons only. A simple framework is presented in which it is shown that it may be costly for an economy...
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This study contends that in Mexico there is a threshold above which drug-trafficking-related violence causes a general slowdown in the economy. Before that threshold is reached, firms and individuals pay for the increase in violence via protective security costs, a decision that is reflected in...
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This book focuses on experiences with and lessons learned from the sweeping reforms to the pension systems of Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s and early 2000s, which shifted the burden of old-age security from the public to the private sector. The book's main objective is to...
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social health insurance, improvements in the equity and efficacy of health services, and changes in public and private sector …This book uses case studies and cross-regional analyses to examine changes in basic health services, challenges for … roles in health care delivery in Latin America and Asia.Abstract: Esta publicación es la primera de una serie que compara …
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Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can … alternative schemes to provide insurance for unemployed individuals. First, it presents an economy that can be calibrated to … unemployment insurance savings account (UISA) scheme can be evaluated. The method is applied to Mexico, and the results show how …
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The purpose of this paper is to provide Bank staff interested in agricultural yield insurance market development …, public officials responsible for financial market policy formulation and supervision, and insurance industry practitioners in … guidelines and recommendations on how to develop viable and sustainable agricultural yield insurance markets. The paper relies …
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This book focuses on experiences with and lessons learned from the sweeping reforms to the pension systems of Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s and early 2000s, which shifted the burden of old-age security from the public to the private sector. The book's main objective is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772422