Building democracy in an emerging society : challenges of the welfare state in Brazil / Sonia Fleury -- Inequality, poverty and the Brazilian social protection system / Marcelo Medeiros, Sergei Soares, Pedro Souza and Rafael Osorio -- Growth and social policies : towards inclusive development /...

The mid-term and long-term growth potential of China’s insurance industry is a subject ofsignificant interest to governments, business and academia. In this paper, the ‘‘worldinsurance growth curve’’ is used in conjunction with estimates of China’s future GDPgrowth to estimate the...

In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program,Taipei Family Development Accounts, which drew heavily on Sherraden’sasset-based welfare theory, and was to provide matched savings accounts forlow-income families in the City. This paper presents the “income to...