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), considered a microcredit policy aimed at low-income formal and informal micro-entrepreneurs, providing credit without collateral …
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), considered a microcredit policy aimed at low-income formal and informal micro-entrepreneurs, providing credit without collateral …
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decreases as the age of the children increases, the impact of children on women is twice that on men. Taking care of the elderly … paid and unpaid work is strong for women and very weak for men. Richer families use their income to acquire goods and … services that reduce their domestic work, but the substitution effect is stronger among women. Within a couple, the ability to …
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decreases as the age of the children increases, the impact of children on women is twice that on men. Taking care of the elderly … paid and unpaid work is strong for women and very weak for men. Richer families use their income to acquire goods and … services that reduce their domestic work, but the substitution effect is stronger among women. Within a couple, the ability to …
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Students, children under 4 years old and people aged 65 and over in Brazil are entitled to partial or full discount on urban trips using public transport systems. These discounts are not covered by public funding, but rather by the other service users who pay full-fare. In this study, we...
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Using data from the Brazilian Census 2000 we estimate whether the distribution of the eligible population of the Continuous Cash Benefit (BPC) would change after a modification in definition of family used to calculate family per capita income. Our results show that in 2000 the majority of...
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action, help for families to take care of the dependent elderly, both at home and in the hospital. It also considers the need … measures to provide the welfare of the elderly in the long run. The essence of the Bill is the general rules which provide for … the 'full protection' for the elderly. It sets that they should have all the rights inherent to the human beings and that …
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of long term care to frail elderly people. From the analysis of seven different cases (Germany, Spain, United States … medical long term care for frail elderly people. … of nowadays societies. Therefore functional dependency and the quality of life of the frail elderly have grown into major …
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policies target to compensate the elderly population for the loss of their labor capacity. We acknowledge the great progress in …
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