the World Employment Programme (WEP), mainly in the 1970s and 1980s in order to make employment central in economic policy … 1990s in which the focus changed from generating not just any employment but decent employment for women and men which was … based on the four pillars of rights at work, productive and remunerative employment, social protection, and social dialogue …

Credit ratings are ordinal predictions for the default risk of an obligor. To evaluate the accuracy of such predictions … dataset. All procedures are illustrated in the empirical section using a dataset of S\&P Long Term Credit Ratings. …

The paper presents an econometric study of the two bank ratings assigned by Moody's Investors Service. According to … Moody’s methodology, foreign-currency long-term deposit ratings are assigned on the basis of Bank Finan-cial Strength … Ratings (BFSR), taking into account “external bank support factors” (joint-default analysis, JDA). Models for the (unobserved …

The paper presents econometric analysis of the of Russian banks ratings, and the experts’ opinion based on a survey …, designed in a framework of the project. From the ratings and the survey we derived the factors that in the experts’ opinion and … in the rating agencies’ opinion are most important for bank reliability. The models of the ratings and experts’ opinions …

via early warning systems. We analyzed the performance of structured finance ratings and structured finance issuance …

measure, enriched with a credit-score-index estimated ad hoc on a representative sample of confidential local bank ratings. A …