Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 116
Cover Image
Millennium Development Goals at Midpoint : Where do we stand?
Bourguignon, François; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; … - 2008
poverty eradication made by the International Community in the UN Millennium Declaration. They include halving world poverty … and hunger by 2015, as well as reaching universal primary education, reducing under-5 and maternal mortality by two thirds … access, lessen the debt burden, channel financial resources and provide development assistance to the developing world, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998850
Cover Image
Growth expectations, capital flows and international risk sharing
Castrén, Olli; Miller, Marcus; Stiegert, Roger - 2003
Over the past decades, cross-border financial flows have increased in importance and have in many occasions exceeded the underlying current account positions. This phenomenon has been accompanied by an increase in the volume of international equity transactions that accentuate the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635970
Cover Image
Cooperation in international banking supervision
Holthausen, Cornelia; Rønde, Thomas - 2004
This paper analyzes cooperation between sovereign national authorities in the supervision and regulation of a multinational bank. We take a political economy approach to regulation and assume that supervisors maximize the welfare of their own country. The communication between the supervisors is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636539
Cover Image
Europäisches Jahr für aktive Altern und Solidarität zwischen den Generationen 2012 : Schlussfolgerungen der EWSA Koordinierungsgruppe
Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss - 2013
The European Year 2012 was, to a certain extent, a framework for raising awareness of the contribution that older people make to society and mobilising stakeholders and policymakers at all levels to promote active ageing and solidarity between generations.To coordinate its activities during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249532
Cover Image
Impact of social expenditure on regional disparities in Poland
Rutkowski, Aleksander - 2009
Social expenditure in Poland appears to increase regional employment disparities. In particular, the farmers' social fund (KRUS) seems to contribute to the rising regional dispersion in the number of recipients of social transfers. This is the result of KRUS benefits being poorly related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009641063
Cover Image
Access to social benefits : reducing non-take-up
Dubois, Hans; Ludwinek, Anna - 2015
Many people in Europe do not receive the social benefits to which they are entitled. This is the case across countries and for many types of benefits. Addressing this ‘non-take-up’ of benefits is critical for two key reasons: benefits do not fulfil their objective if they do not reach the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902643
Cover Image
Engaging the "missing middle" : status quo, trends and good practice
Mascherini, Massimiliano; Ledermaier, Stefanie - 2016
Youth unemployment policy has tended to focus on two groups: young people with low educational attainment and those with higher education who have failed to find work. However, there is a large group of middle attainers who tend to be overlooked by policy – young people who have completed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902650
Cover Image
Screening report Serbia : Chapter 19 – Social policy and employment
Europäische Kommission - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036353
Cover Image
Mercosur : Regional strategy paper 2007-2013
Europäische Kommission - 2007
This Regional Strategy Paper (RSP), the second for Mercosur, provides a strategic framework for EC cooperation with Mercosur for the period 2007-2013. The RSP has been prepared following a consultation process involving Mercosur member states and civil society actors. EC-Mercosur relations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036389
Cover Image
The role of trade union organisations and the social partners in planning and monitoring economic and social cohesion policies in the new financial framework for 2014-2020
Jakubowski, Andrzej (contributor); Mestre, Alain (contributor) - 2014
Research into the importance of social and economic cohesion policies in the context of the new financial framework 2014-2020 and the impact that trade union organisations could have in this process.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249538