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Uruguay : Income Transfer Policies in Uruguay, Closing the Gaps to Increase Welfare
World Bank - 2012
Uruguay's Government is currently analyzing several reform strategies for the social sectors. These include a health reform, the introduction of a new poverty alleviation program, possible changes in pensions and unemployment insurance, and also a tax reform, that impacts the income transfer...
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Timor-Leste Social Assistance : Public Expenditure and Program Performance Report
World Bank - 2013
The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste is a young, post-conflict nation endowed with significant oil revenues. Timor-Leste has one of the highest birth rates in the world (2.41 percent population growth) with over 44 percent of the population below 15 years of age (Timor-Leste Census, 2010)....
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Global redistribution of income
Bourguignon, François - 2006
with extending this analysis of redistribution to other forms of international factor flows-more specifically, migrant …
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Decomposing changes in income inequality into vertical and horizontal redistribution and reranking, with applications to China and Vietnam
Wagstaff, Adam - 2005
devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax to analyze the extent to which vertical redistribution associated with … changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …
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Distributional effects of crises : / the role of financial transfers
Halac, Marina - 2003
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Federative Republic of Brazil - Social Insurance and Labor Supply : Assessing Incentives and Redistribution
World Bank - 2013
system in terms of incentives and redistribution. It starts with an overview of institutional arrangements, programs, and … could 'correct' incentives by making redistribution more transparent and progressive. A behavioral life-cycle model …
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Immigration policy and foreign population in Switzerland, volume 1 0f 1
Gross, Dominique Marie - 2006
of immigration policy and its goal has become very weak and the level of foreign population is at an all time high …
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Explaining U.S. immigration, 1971-98
Clark, Ximena - 2004
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How can donors help build global public goods in health ?
Das Gupta, Monica - 2009
"Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable disease control in the developed world. These mostly non-clinical services generate "pure public goods" by reducing everyone's exposure to disease through measures such as...
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What are public services worth, and to whom? : non-parametric estimation of capitalization in Pune
Lall, Somik V. - 2006
"The availability and quality of basic public services are important determinants of urban quality of life. In many cities, rapid population growth and fiscal constraints are limiting the extent to which urban governments can keep up with increasing demand for these services. It therefore...
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