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Pensions: Challenges and Choices: What next?
Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
The analysis in the Report of the Pensions Commission (UK Pensions Commission2004, henceforth referred to as the Report), is sound, the data a wonderful treasure trove, thepresentation particularly clear, and the diagnosis correct. This comment takes the Report’sanalysis as given, and sets out...
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Paying for higher education: What policies, in what order?
Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
Building on earlier work (Barr 2004a), this paper discusses the role of tuition fees in paying for teaching at universities in England, though much of the analysis applies also to the rest of the UK and to OECD countries. There is no discussion of financing research. The paper addresses three...
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Sprouting Seeds– Outcomes from a community-basedemployment programme
Evans, Helen C. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
As unemployment falls it is often the most disadvantaged unemployed whoget left behind. To identify what works to improve the job prospects of thisgroup, Helen Evans has looked at Bootstrap Enterprises in Hackney, anexample of a community-based employment project working for 22 years withthis...
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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor …
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Climate changes affect human capital
Caruso, Germán; De Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023
Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function-physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology …
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The Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2012
education and research including university education, vocational, technical, professional and medical education other than … innovation and to provide for comprehensive and integrated growth of higher education and research keeping in view the global … standards of educational and research practices and for that purpose to establish the National Commission for Higher Education …
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Declining Caseloads/ Increased Work: What Can We Conclude about theEffects of Welfare Reform?
Blank, Rebecca M. - University of Michigan <Ann Arbor, Mich.> / Department … - 2001
In 1996, Congress passed the Personal Responsibility andWork Opportunity Reconciliation Act, or PRWORA, whichsubstantially restructured public assistance programs.PRWORA gave states almost entire discretion to design andoperate cash assistance programs for families with children,reducing the...
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Using Financial Incentives to Encourage Welfare Recipients to BecomeEconomically Self-Sufficient
Robins, Philip K.; Michalopoulos, Charles - University of Miami <Coral Gables, Fla.>; Manpower … - 2001
[...]One of the primary goals of TANF is to move welfarerecipients into work and economic self-sufficiency. Althoughstates were given much flexibility in how to achieve this goal, thefederal government imposed some guidelines in the form ofrequirements that welfare recipients be participating in...
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Did Globalization Aid Industrial Development In Colonial India? A Study of Knowledge Transfer in the Iron Industry
Roy, Tirthankar - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
The paper explores the link between international economic integration and technological capability in colonial India. The example of iron industry shows that many new ideas and skills flowed into India from Europe, but not all met with commercial success. The essay suggests that in those fields...
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