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Drug Trafficking and Narco-terrorism as Security Threats: A Study of India’s North-east
Singh, Ningthoujam Koiremba; Nunes, William - In: India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs 69 (2013) 1, pp. 65-82
Security issues in international relations, particularly during the era of the Cold War, were and had been dominated by the realist paradigm which saw the preservation of the state from external threat. Such a conception of security provided a very myopic and narrow understanding of the security...
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A Critique: HIV/AIDS and the Legal and Policy Framework in Sri Lanka
Fonseka, Bhavani; Kakantoussis, Nicole - eSocialSciences - 2013
effective response to HIV/AIDS as many do not come forward to obtain medical services for fear of violence, stigma and …
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AIDS Treatment in South Asia: Equity and Efficiency Arguments for Shouldering the Fiscal Burden When Prevalence Rates are Low
Over, Mead - 2009
The slower spread of AIDS in South Asian countries, combined with the fact that most South Asian countries have higher … recent epidemiological data on the extent and rate of spread of HIV/AIDS in South Asian countries and alternative scenarios … regarding future government efforts to expand access to AIDS treatment in order to estimate the future need for antiretroviral …
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Food Security in South Asia: Issues and Opportunities
Mittal, Surabhi; Sethi, Deepti - eSocialSciences - 2009
The study aims to identify issues relating to food security, the policy initiatives taken to tackle these issues, evaluate these policies and suggest measures to overcome identified constraints in order to improve the food security situation in the region. [ICRIER WP No. 240].
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How Can the Crisis Vulnerability of Emerging Economies Be Reduced?
Abberger, Klaus; Bhattacharyay, Biswa Nath; Nam, Chang Woon - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
Emerging countries in many cases are more crisis-prone than highly developed industrialized countries. This is in many cases due to a weak or volatile financial sector. The best policy to strengthen crisis resistance is the building up of a sound financial position. A sound financial position of...
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Profiling zur Vermeidung von Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit : erste Ergebnisse aus einem Modellprojekt (Profiling to avoid long-term unemployment : first results from a model project)
Rudolph, Helmut; Müntnich, Michael - In: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 34 (2001) 4, pp. 530-553
"The paper presents first results from the model project 'profiling' which was conducted from 1.12.1999 until 30.6.2001 in three employment offices with financial support from the EU Commission. Two objectives of equal importance were pursued in the project: the development and testing of a...
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Soziale Ungleichheit und Inanspruchnahme medizinischer und präventiver Leistungen in Deutschland: eine empirische Analyse
Bremer, Patrick; Wübker, Ansgar - Wirtschaftsfakultät, Private Universität Witten/Herdecke - 2012
einkommensbezogenen oder nur geringe einkommensbezogene Ungleichheiten. Sollte es Ziel der Gesundheitspolitik sein einkommensbezogene …
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Prävention und Menschenwürde - oder: Kants Instrumentalisierungsverbot und die ökonomische Theorie der Strafe
Schmidtchen, Dieter - Forschungsstelle zur ökonomischen Analyse des Rechts, … - 2002
In diesem Beitrag wird gezeigt, daß der Einwand, Straftäter würden in der ökonomischen konsequentialistischen Straftheorie in einer gegen die Menschenwürde verstoßenden Weise instrumentalisiert, nicht zutrifft. Entgegen Kant wird argumentiert, daß vernunftbegabte Wesen wie etwa der homo...
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Profiling zur Vermeidung von Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit : erste Ergebnisse aus einem Modellprojekt (Profiling to avoid long-term unemployment : first results from a model project)
Rudolph, Helmut; Müntnich, Michael - In: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 34 (2001) 4, pp. 530-553
"The paper presents first results from the model project 'profiling' which was conducted from 1.12.1999 until 30.6.2001 in three employment offices with financial support from the EU Commission. Two objectives of equal importance were pursued in the project: the development and testing of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170477
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Wirtschaftspolitische Grundsätze der Gestaltung von Risikotransfersystemen für Naturgefahren
Steinrücken, Torsten - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 77 (2008) 4, pp. 80-97
The central element to improve the management of natural hazards in Germany is to amend the existing risk-transfer system. A transition of the current voluntary insurance system into a compulsory insurance system would make the hedging of losses and damages easier and would create stronger...
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