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annual report 2005
London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
This report presents some of the mainfi ndings from our research in each areaduring 2005: most of our eighth andpart of our ninth year. It also detailsthe other activities of the Centre. Moredetail can be found in the publicationslisted in Appendix 2, which includeCASE’s own discussion paper...
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Poverty and Inequality and Social Policy in China
Li, Bingqin; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable andnoted feature of Chinese society. The paper … socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is … approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty andinequality are considered.[...] …
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Do Europe’s Minimum Income Schemes ProvideAdequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis andHow, If at All, Have Governments Responded?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changesthat have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens withadequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on datafor 24 European Union countries,...
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IMPLEMENTING HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THE POOR: THE ROLLOUT OF RSBY IN KARNATAKA
Rajasekhar, D; Berg, Erlend; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Manjula, R - Institute for Social and Economic Change <Bangalore>; … - 2011
quality health care in India. This paper looks at the implementation of the scheme in Karnataka, drawing on a large survey of …
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Growing out of Poverty : Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line... …
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Knowledge-Based Economic Development: Mass Media and the Weightless Economy
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
associated with three development outcomes: corruption, inequalityand poverty. Of the media variables, newspapers are observed to … negative association with inequality and poverty. ICTs andtelephony infrastructures.association with corruption, inequality and … poverty aremixed. There is some robust evidence of the negative association of ICT expenditureswith corruption. An ICT index …
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Capital and the Determinants of Poverty and SocialExclusion
Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
Types of capital which determine the ability of individuals, ofcommunities and of nations to avoid poverty and social …
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Endogenous Lifetime and Economic GrowthRevisited
Bunzel, Helle; Qiao, Xue - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004
. Interestingly, TFP growth can help economies escape the vicious cycleof poverty.[...] …
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Das Grundeinkommen inder deutschen Debatte
Wagner, Björn - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung / Abteilung Wirtschafts- und … - 2009
Die Idee eines Grundeinkommens ist nicht neu.1In ihrer allgemeinsten Form geht sie der Entwicklungkapitalistischer Produktionsverhältnisseweit voraus. Bereits die etwa 700 v. Chr. eingeführteund rund 500 Jahre unangetastete Verfassungdes antiken Sparta sah eine Trennungzwischen notwendigen und...
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Theoretische Grundlagen demokratischerWirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik –Der Beitrag Milton Friedmans
Pies, Ingo - Wittenberg-Zentrum für Globale Ethik - 2004
Die Hauptthese dieses Beitrags betrifft das bleibende Verdienst von Milton Friedman alsÖkonom und Gesellschaftstheoretiker. Sie besagt, dass die Ökonomik als wissenschaftlicheDisziplin durch Keynes und den Keynesianismus in eine Grundlagenkrise gestürzt wurde, ausder sie maßgeblich durch die...
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