Aus der Kooperation der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung mit dem israelischen Marco Center for Political Economics ist ein "Länderbericht Ägypten" hervorgegangen. Er befasst sich mit Armut und Einkommensverteilung, Bildung und Arbeitsmarkt, Emigration, den Arbeitsbeziehungen und Handelsabkommen.

Since the mid-1990s, Brazil has undergone extensive reforms that have finally reversed the dismaying economic performance of the 1980s. In particular, poverty and inequality indicators have improved dramatically, especially since the late-2000s. This paper provides an overview of such recent...

In this paper, the relationship between the degree of centralisation and the distributive outcomes in European schemes of social assistance is investigated. For this purpose, a scheme of classification suitable for grouping the EU15 schemes except for Luxembourg according to features related to...