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This paper reviews the development of the social security system and trends in the urban labor market in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC faces a difficult path before it can reform and improve its social security system and...
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risk-matching and intra-group diversification of risk using data on Thai microcredit borrowing groups. We propose a non …-parametric univariate methodology for assessing homogeneity of matching; structural multivariate analysis is carried out using Fox's (2008 …) matching maximum score estimator. We find evidence of a) homogeneous sorting by risk and b) risk anti-diversification within …
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Development approach. No Concept of development, however, can be complete unless and until it incorporates the gender component at …
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This paper analyses the scope and limitations of gender responsive budgeting in Mexico within the overall framework of … fiscal decentralisation. However, decentralised gender responsive budgeting can be meaningful only when the local governments … have significant assignment of functions and finance. Therefore, although the focus of the paper is gender responsiveness …
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The nature of the financial turbulence that happened recently in US and Europe, why it happened, where it happened, and the implications for central banks. Some of the forces that led up to and characterized the recent spate of events, the specific responses of central banks and some challenges...
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Rapid demographic ageing is a growing public health issue in many low- and middle-income countries (LAMICs). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a construct frequently used to define groups of people who may be at risk of developing dementia, crucial for targeting preventative interventions....
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This paper confirms that for Mexico over the period 1986-2000, the export sector pays higher wages than other sectors …
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This paper is a lecture series by H.E. Ms. Rosario Green, who shares the economic crisis experience of Mexico and …
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This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and …
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What does citizenship mean to poor and socially excluded people? How do their views help us understand and analyse what 'inclusive' citizenship means?
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