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the last decade, but the benefits of this are being distributed unevenly. Poverty rates are higher than in any OECD … population with poverty and employment rates similar to those of OECD countries. On the other, there are Arabs and ultra … of Arab and Haredim families live in poverty. Almost half of all children entering primary school in Israel come from one …
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much expenditure remains inefficient and ineffective in addressing the serious problem of poverty. More than a quarter of … the Russian population is poverty-stricken according to official criteria. Average wages are not much more than half of …
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both poverty and economic and social alienation of the poor, because it has positive welfare effects that income support …
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evidence on income distribution and poverty covers, for the first time, all 30 OECD countries in the mid-2000s, while …. The report provides evidence of a fairly generalised increase in income inequality over the past two decades across the … how much inequality there is in a society is not determined randomly, nor is it beyond the power of governments to change …
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This book is based on an exceptional event in December 2000 which brought together civil society from the poor countries and OECD experts. It emerges that globalisation can have a positive impact in poor countries, but only if policies encouraging a more equitable distribution of human and...
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enjoyed rising living standards over two decades of strong economic growth. The incidence of poverty is now much lower and …
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the last decade, but the benefits of this are being distributed unevenly. Poverty rates are higher than in any OECD … population with poverty and employment rates similar to those of OECD countries. On the other, there are Arabs and ultra … of Arab and Haredi families live in poverty. Almost half of all children entering primary school in Israel come from one …
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Social protection is a measure of the extent to which countries assume responsibility for supporting the standard of living of disadvantaged or vulnerable groups. Benefits may be targeted at low-income households, the elderly, disabled, sick, unemployed, or young persons. Social spending...
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