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The Italian Social Protection System : The Poverty of Welfare
Rostagno, Massimo V. - 1998
Italy’s system of social protection has come under criticism for being fragmented and excessively skewed toward … under review accrues to families whose own resources fall short of the poverty line. The paper then proposes a new means …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401369
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Forecasting ECB Monetary Policy : Accuracy is (Still) a Matter of Geography
Ehrmann, Michael - 2006
Monetary policy in the euro area is conducted within a multicountry, multicultural, and multilingual context involving multiple central banking traditions. How does this heterogeneity affect the ability of economic agents to understand and to anticipate monetary policy by the European Central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399987
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The poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing : channels and policy implications
Shang, Baoping - 2021
Addressing the poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing reforms is critical for the success of ambitious … which carbon pricing can potentially affect poverty and inequality. It finds that the channels differ in important ways …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610729
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Guaranteed minimum income schemes in Europe : landscape and design
Coady, David P.; Jahan, Samir; Matsumoto, Riki; Shang, … - 2021
countries, including how countries balance the primary objective of poverty alleviation against the desire to both manage the … employment incentives over the primary objective of poverty alleviation. Many countries can reduce this trade off by combining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605683
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Inequality, poverty, and social protection in Bulgaria
Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2020
Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300609
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A European minimum wage : implications for poverty and macroeconomic imbalances
Detragiache, Enrica; Ebeke, Christian; Jirasavetakul, … - 2020
A hypothetical European Minimum Wage (MW) set at 60 percent of each country's median wage would reduce in-work poverty … but have limited effects on overall poverty, as many poor households do not earn a wage near MW and higher unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251363
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Does NGO Aid Go to the Poor? : Empirical Evidence From Europe
Nancy, Gilles - 2006
for, poverty consistently appears as the main worldwide determinant of NGO aid allocation. NGOs do not respond to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402984
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Budgetary Transparency for Public Expenditure Control
Reviglio, Franco - 2001
This paper explains why EMU countries seem unable or unwilling to undertake structural reforms of public expenditure. One of the reasons is political. What public expenditure reforms might be pursued without changing the political system? Without political reforms, technical improvements made to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403530
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European Financial Integration and Revenue from Seignorage : The Case of Italy
International Monetary Fund - 1989
exchange rate expectations and on interest rates on publicly held government debt. In Italy, the high stock of such debt in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396172
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The Italian Lira in the Narrow Erm Band : The Challenge of Credibility
Molho, Lazaros E. - 1991
interest rate differentials and capital and reserve flows suggest that Italy’s nonaccommodating exchange rate policy has become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398633