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Reducing the Risks to Health: The role of social protectionReport of the Social Protection Task Group for the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post 2010

Glennerster, Howard; Bradshaw, Jonathan; Lister, Ruth; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

At the end of 2008, the Government set in motion a Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England chaired by Sir Michael Marmot. It is to report in December 2009. As part of its work, it set up various Task Groups to collect evidence and suggest policy options. The Task Group on Social...

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Are current levels of air pollution in England too high?The impact of pollution on population mortality

Janke, Katharina; Propper, Carol; Henderson, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

We examine the relationship between common sources of airborne pollution and population mortality in present day England. The current air quality limit values are low by both historical and international standards, and these are set at levels which are believed not to be harmful to health. We...

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Income Transfers to the Elderly in East Asia:Testing Asian Values

Kwon, Huck-ju - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia. It tries to test whetherfamilial arrangement according to Confucian ethics, which are still takenseriously in East Asia, secures the minimum standards of living for theelderly....

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Fair Shares for All?The development of needs based government fundingin education, health and housing

Hendry, Ross - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

Furthering equity as an achievable public policy objective is based on theability to assess needs accurately, and distribute resources accordingly.The purpose of this paper is to plot the development of the formulaegoverning resource allocation in education, health and social housingand to chart...

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Welfare Reform in the United States: Implications for British Social Policy

Midgley, James; Stewart, Kitty; Piachaud, David; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

Recent government pronouncements in the UK and above all the recent Conservative Party (2008) policy document on welfare reform suggest that US welfare reform is increasingly being taken as a model for the UK. What lessons should the UK draw from US experience? The long established means tested...

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LSE public policy review

London School of Economics and Political Science - [London] : LSE Press - Volume 1, issue 1 (2020)-

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Nutrition and Economic Destitution in Northern Ghana, 1930-1957. A Historical Perspective on Nutritional Economics

Destombes, Jerôme - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the …

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Mapping Poverty in Agar Town: Economic Conditions Prior to the Development of St. Pancras Station In 1866

Swensen, Steven P. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

Poverty.[...] …

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Modelling Vulnerability in the UK

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Cowell, Frank A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …

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Knowledge-Based Economic Development: Mass Media and the Weightless Economy

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

associated with three development outcomes: corruption, inequalityand poverty. Of the media variables, newspapers are observed to … negative association with inequality and poverty. ICTs andtelephony infrastructures.association with corruption, inequality and … poverty aremixed. There is some robust evidence of the negative association of ICT expenditureswith corruption. An ICT index …

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