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Breaking the Fall : Successful Homeless Interventions in the COVID Pandemic
Flaming, Daniel; Pickens, Seth; Burns, Patrick - 2023
Government income and housing interventions during the COVID pandemic had demonstrable benefits in reducing the growth of homelessness. Comparisons of projected versus actual growth in Los Angeles County from 2020 to 2022 validate the benefit of these interventions.This report offers three types...
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Financial Crises and Social Spending : The Impact of the 2008-2009 Crisis
Lewis, Maureen - 2010
education and health cuts in government expenditures during recessions potentially place social programs at risk. This paper … analyzes the experiences from 1995-2007 for 131 countries; projects fiscal social spending to 2013; and, examines specific … issue around fiscal social spending in the current crisis including donor responses, and government and household coping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138580
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Is Military Spending Converging Across Countries? An Examination of Trends and Key Determinants
Clements, Benedict - 2019
. In developing economies, rising social spending tends to crowdout military outlays, but this is not the case in advanced … economies. With social outlays projectedto rise as developing countries look to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859871
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Does excessive sovereign debt really hurt growth? : A critique of This time is different, by Reinhart and Rogoff
Nersisyan, Yeva; Wray, L. Randall - 2010
The worst global downturn since the Great Depression has caused ballooning budget deficits in most nations, as tax revenues collapse and governments bail out financial institutions and attempt countercyclical fiscal policy. With notable exceptions, most economists accept the desirability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975102
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Does Excessive Sovereign Debt Really Hurt Growth? A Critique of 'This Time is Different', by Reinhart and Rogoff
Nersisyan, Yeva - 2013
The worst global downturn since the Great Depression has caused ballooning budget deficits in most nations, as tax revenues collapse and governments bail out financial institutions and attempt countercyclical fiscal policy. With notable exceptions, most economists accept the desirability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083044
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New Approaches to Development Cooperation in Middle Income Countries : Brokering Collective Action for Global Sustainable Development
Klingebiel, Stephan - 2016
In June 2013, the High-Level Conference of Middle-Income Countries held in Costa Rica, organised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), ventured an intriguing look into the future of development. In particular, the conference highlighted the role of networks in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976916
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Fiscal Stimulus Plans : The Need for a Global New Deal
Ortiz, Isabel - 2009
The article reviews announced fiscal stimulus packages in 43 countries. In March 2009, the total announced for stimulus plans is US$ 2.18 trillion, or 3.5% of world's GDP, mostly in higher income economies. The majority of these recovery packages contain measures to stimulate firms, consumers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014209565
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Access to Infrastructure and Human Development : Cross-Country Evidence
Sapkota, Jeet - 2015
Despite extensive policy discussion, limited empirical literature is available concerning the impacts of infrastructure on human development. Furthermore, major infrastructure services, such as transport and energy, are missing in the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014137311
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Euro Crisis : From the Sovereigns to the Banks and Back to the Sovereigns
Gurdgiev, Constantin - 2011
development: the private and public sectors debt trap and the social-economic model reliant on deficit financing of public and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122727
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Safety Nets for the Poor : A Missing International Dimension?
Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2006
(such as a global reinsurance scheme) to insure countries against the risk of increased demands for social protection from … type would foster the widespread introduction in countries of standing national social safety nets (such as employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061671