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The social policies of emerging economies: Growth and welfare in China and India
de Haan, Arjan - 2013
reference to China and India, with their very distinctive public policy approaches. Much of the economics literature either does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397192
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Social Policies for a Recovery
Immervoll, Herwig; Llena-Nozal, Ana - 2011
The fallout from the global economic downturn of 2008-09 is a continuing source of stress on families and a constraint on government policies. How can social policies contribute to a quick and equitable recovery from the crisis and how can they best respond to the difficulties that households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331437
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Pro-poor service delivery and social identity: An experimental investigation
Mueller, Ulrike - 2012
India addressed the requirement for pro-poor service delivery in rural regions by introducing decentralization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319896
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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2009
rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330097
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Changing Paradigm of Indo-Japan Relations: Opportunities and Challenges
Rajamohan, P. G.; Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Jacob, Jabin T. - 2008
India's growing economic strength of recent years has seen it adapting its foreign policy to increase its global … vision, most noticeably in Asia, and has broadened the definition of its security interests. As a result, India … global partnership between them.India and Japan share a special relationship as fellow democracies without hegemonic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807618
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The marginal propensity to earn, consume and save out of unearned income in South Africa
Bengtsson, Niklas - 2010
We use a rapid introduction of an unconditional cash grant (child support) in South Africa to estimate the marginal propensity to consume and earn out of a permanent change in unearned income. We find that the marginal propensity to earn is about to -0.25 for single-adult households, and...
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Is there a Race-to-the-Bottom in the Setting of Welfare Benefit Levels? Evidence from a Policy Intervention
Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin - 2004
In this paper we investigate whether local governments react on the welfare benefit levels in neighboring jurisdictions when setting their own benefit levels. We solve the simultaneity problem arising from the welfare game by utilizing a policy intervention; more specifically, we use a centrally...
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Cash by any other name? Evidence on labelling from the UK Winter Fuel Payment
Beatty, Timothy K. M.; Blow, Laura; Crossley, Thomas F.; … - 2011
Standard economic theory implies that the labelling of cash transfers or cash-equivalents (e.g. child benefits, food stamps) should have no effect on spending patterns. The empirical literature to date does not contradict this proposition. We study the UK Winter Fuel Payment (WFP), a cash...
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Government benefits, inequality, and employment
Kenworthy, Lane - 2008
Redistribution is one of the principal mechanisms through which countries secure low income inequality. Maintaining moderately high wage levels at the low end of the distribution may be increasingly difficult and perhaps even counterproductive from an egalitarian perspective. If so,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335334
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Social assistance and minimum income protection in the EU: Vulnerability, adequacy, and convergence
Nelson, Kenneth - 2009
In this paper social assistance developments are analyzed in a large number of EU member states, including European transition countries and the new democracies of southern Europe. The empirical analysis is based on the unique and recently established SaMip Dataset, which provides social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335403