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Togo : Towards a National Social Protection Policy and Strategy
World Bank - 2012
Over the last several years, the Government of Togo has made important advances in the area of social protection. Although Togo has had limited social insurance and social assistance programs, the economic shock and natural disasters starting in 2008 brought the need for better mechanisms of...
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Energy efficiency : lessons learned from success stories
Stuggins, Gary - 2013
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The market for retirement products in Sweden
Palmer, Edward - 2008
1990s transformed the landscape for retirement products in Sweden. First, banking and insurance were extensively … implications of these changes for the Swedish annuity market. It discusses the regulation of payout options in Sweden, highlighting … risk-based regulation and supervision. The paper also emphasizes Sweden's success in moving in the direction of increased …
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Indonesia : employment and income distribution in Indonesia
Leiserson, Mark (contributor) - 1980
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Economic mobility and the rise of the Latin American middle class
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2012
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Inside inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt : facts and perceptions across people, time, and space
Verme, Paolo - 2014
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Addressing inequality in South Asia
Rama, Martín - 2014
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Main drivers of income inequality in Central European and Baltic countries : Some insights from recent household survey data
Zaidi, Salman - 2009
"Present levels of income inequality in Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia remain considerably higher than their pre-transition levels, although the relative pace of change over time has varied quite a bit across countries. Using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394109
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Global income distribution and poverty in the absence of agricultural distortions
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2009
"This paper assesses the potential impacts of the removal of agriculture trade distortions using a newly developed dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that liberalization of agriculture and food could increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394143
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Zooming in : from aggregate volatility to income distribution
Calderón, César - 2009
"In contrast with a growing literature on the drivers of aggregate volatility in developing countries, its consequences in terms of individual incomes have received less attention. This paper looks at the impact of cyclical output fluctuations and extreme output events (crises) on unemployment,...
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