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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 … and financial stabilization in 1997. The global economic crisis had a major effect on Bulgarian growth and employment … its 2008 level. However, employment growth was negative during 2009–2012, and the first small uptick occurred only in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245618
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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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The Paradox of the Social Investment State. Growth, Employment and Poverty in the Lisbon Era
Cantillon, Bea - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2011
incomes and of employment, poverty rates have not gone down, but have either stagnated or even increased. In this paper we …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896624
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011139573
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Turkey on the Way of Universal Health Coverage Through the Health Transformation Program (2003-2013)
Aran, Meltem; Rokx, Claudia - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Beginning in 2003, Turkey initiated a series of reforms under the Health Transformation Program (HTP) that over the past decade have led to the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC). The progress of Turkey?s health system has few, if any, parallels in scope and speed. Before the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937832
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TURKEY ON THE WAY OF UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE THROUGH THE HEALTH TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM (2003-13)
Bump, Jesse; Sparkes, Susan; Tatar, Mehtap; Celik, Yusuf; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Beginning in 2003, Turkey initiated a series of reforms under the Health Transformation Program (HTP) that over the past decade have led to the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC). The progress of Turkey?s health system has few ? if any ? parallels in scope and speed. Before the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212023
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Cross-border purchases of health services : a case study on Austria and Hungary
Obermaier, Andreas J. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper explores the structure of cross-border health purchasing between Austria and Hungary and determines the size of this phenomenon as well as the barriers to a further increase. Austrian patients may receive health care treatment in Hungary in three different ways. First, patients may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116614
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Supports for Working Families: Work and Care Policies across Welfare States
Gornick, Janet C.; Meyers, Marcia K. - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 4, pp. 13-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037387
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Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Selected OECD Countries
Kamerman, Sheila B. - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 4, pp. 19-24
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037396
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Dominica; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Joint Staff Advisory Note
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
creation, given the nature of poverty in Dominica. The GSPS also stresses that existing health and education programs are … framework that is consistent with the proposed objectives of poverty reduction. The growth and fiscal targets envisaged in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244976