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Transfers, Social Safety Nets, and Economic Growth
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2006
This paper analyses the role of social safety nets in the form of redistributional transfers and wage subsidies. It is argued that public welfare programs can be viewed as a crime-preventing or disruption-preventing devices because they tend to increase the opportunity cost of engaging in crime...
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Growth and Welfare Implications of Mortality Differentials in Unfunded Social Security Systems
Kelly, Mark - 2021
Several recent studies have examined the steady-state welfare implications of mortality differentials within unfunded Social Security systems, concluding that these differentials undermine the progressivity of the system and make society worse-off relative to alternative public pension schemes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217547
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Revitalizing the Japanese economy by socializing risk
Horioka, Charles Yuji; Kanda, Reiko - 2010
The almost continuous stagnation of the Japanese economy for the past two decades has had an adverse impact on Japanese households from at least three perspectives: A decline in the standard of living, an increase in risks and uncertainties relating to livelihood, employment, old age, etc., and...
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The emergence of inclusive growth : issues, challenges and policy options for Nigeria
Eregha, Perekunah B.; Mesagan, Ekundayo P. - 2019
able to achieve inclusive growth as dependency ratio, poverty and depletion of natural capital is very high. Also, health … incidence of poverty to the barest minimum to ensure that growth becomes inclusive. …
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Social protection systems, redistribution and growth in Latin America
Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio; Gómez Arteaga, Natalie - In: CEPAL review (2017) 122, pp. 7-30
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The role of macroeconomic policy in rebalancing growth
Morgan, Peter J. - 2011
The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007 - 2009 has called the export-led growth model of Asian economies into question. This paper describes the contribution that macroeconomic policy can make to promote a rebalancing of growth away from dependence on exports to developed economies...
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The role of macroeconomic policy in rebalancing growth
Morgan, Peter J. - 2011
The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007 - 2009 has called the export-led growth model of Asian economies into question. This paper describes the contribution that macroeconomic policy can make to promote a rebalancing of growth away from dependence on exports to developed economies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907795
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Policies for inclusive and sustainable growth in Indonesia
Vujanovic, Petar - 2015
Indonesia has a very good record of poverty reduction, having halved its incidence over the past two decades …. Nevertheless, almost 30 million people still live below the national poverty line, mostly in rural areas and in certain provinces …. In order to make further progress in lifting these people out of poverty and economic vulnerability, policy needs to …
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The Role of Macroeconomic Policy in Rebalancing Growth
Morgan, Peter - 2011
The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-2009 has called the export-led growth model of Asian economies into question. This paper describes the contribution that macroeconomic policy can make to promote a rebalancing of growth away from dependence on exports to developed economies to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130000
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Australia : Inequality and Prosperity and their Impacts in a Radical Welfare State
Whiteford, Peter - 2021
Over the past forty years the economic fortunes of Australian households have fallen into two fairly distinct periods. In the “disappointing decades” of the 1970s and 1980s, real wages stagnated, unemployment increased fourfold and male full-time employment as a proportion of the population...
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