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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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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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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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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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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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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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Zum Argumentationsmodus von Wissenschaft in der Gesellschaft: Ludwig von Mises und der Liberalismus
Hielscher, Stefan - Universität <Halle, Saale> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2009
Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie Wissenschaft als Wissenschaft in einer Gesellschaftwirksam werden kann, wenn die Ideen der öffentlichen Meinung über die Gestaltungsmöglichkeitender Gesellschaftspolitik entscheiden. Die These dieses Beitragslautet, dass Ludwig von Mises‘...
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Sisyphus at Work:On the Efforts to Achieve a Fair,Internationally Recognised Labour,and Social Order
Senghaas-Knobloch, Eva - Forschungszentrum Nachhaltigkeit (Artec) <Bremen> - 2010
Work, in all its manifestations and with its very different returns, is an indispensable featureof human existence. Consequently, labour policy and social policy are concerned with shapingthe immediate conditions of everyday life. The composite term "labour and social standards"indicates that...
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