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Bulgaria: Selected Issues Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key constraints to growth suggested by cross-country competitiveness studies. Bulgaria’s GDP has grown substantially since economic and financial stabilization in 1997. The global...
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Globalization and decent work : options for Panama
Egger, Philippe - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002
Analyses the economic, social and labour market situation in Panama and proposes policies to promote decent work.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966341
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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258636
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Aspects of Social Policy in Romania in the Context of E.U. Integration
Ion, Bucur; Dorel, Dusmanescu; Cristian, Bucur - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 276-280
The social policy is an ensemble of public policies pursuing the accomplishment of social protection and wealth. In Romania, the social protection strategy targets the following directions: protecting the employee trough an appropriate legislation; protecting the disadvantaged social groups;...
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The Paradox of the Social Investment State. Growth, Employment and Poverty in the Lisbon Era
Cantillon, Bea - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2011
After the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, on the eve of the elaboration of policies designed … to help reach the Europe 2020 target of lifting 20 million people out of poverty, it is important to take stock of the … incomes and of employment, poverty rates have not gone down, but have either stagnated or even increased. In this paper we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896624
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Transferts de revenus et pauvreté au Brésil
ROCHA, Sonia - In: Revue Tiers-Monde n°205 (2011) 1, pp. 191-210
</titre> <alinea/> This article discusses the role social security and means-tested transfers play on poverty and …), it estimates the impact on poverty and income inequality indicators of eight different combinations of cash transfers. It …
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China’s 21st-century welfare reforms
Duckett, Jane - In: Local Economy 27 (2012) 5-6, pp. 645-650
During the first decade of the 21st century, China’s top leaders reined in the marketising, commercialising welfare reforms of the 1990s, and recommitted the State to a role in providing social goods. But the governmental and social elites who shape welfare policy are still debating the...
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Contracting for Primary Health Care in Brazil: The Cases of Bahia and Rio de Janeiro
Araujo, Edson; Cavalini, Luciana; Girardi, Sabado; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This study presents two case studies, each on a current initiative of contracting for primary health services in Brazil, one for the state of Bahia, the other for the city of Rio de Janeiro. The two initiatives are not linked and their implementation has independently sprung from a search for...
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Vietnam: Learning from Smart Reforms on the Road to Universal Health Coverage
Barroy, Helene; Jarawan, Eva; Bales, Sarah - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Universal Health Coverage is a powerful framework for a nation aiming to protect their population against health risks. However, countries face multiple challenges in implementing, achieving and sustaining UHC strategies. Sharing and learning from diverse country experiences may enable to foster...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937831
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Aspects of governmental job-creation efforts in Western Europe and North America.
RG, Hollister - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1986
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, comparison of employment policies for employment creation in Western Europe and the USA - covers job creation measures, target groups, financing, and the relationships between job creation and economic policy and social policies (esp. Social security); looks at...
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