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International Evidence on the Impact of Transfers and Taxes on Alternative Poverty Indexes
DeFina, Robert H.; Thanawala, Kishor - 2002
Changes in the headcount rate are the standard metric for gauging how public transfers and taxes affect poverty. An alternative strategy, one theoretically more appealing and complete, is to rely on distribution-sensitive indexes [Sen (1976, 1981)]. How would policies measured impacts change if...
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The Structure of Women's Employment in Comparative Perspective
Pettit, Becky; Hook, Jennifer - 2002
One of the most dramatic social transformations of the latter half of the twentieth century involved the massive influx of women into the paid labor force. A central debate in studies of women's labor force participation concerns the influence of demographic and economic structures and...
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Human Resources for Health: An International Comparison of Health Occupations from Labor Force Survey Data
Gupta, Neeru; Diallo, Khassoum; Zurn, Pascal; Dal Poz, … - 2002
Human resources are an essential element of a health system's inputs, and yet there is little consistency between countries in how human resource policies and strategies are developed and implemented. The analysis of the impacts of services on population health and well-being attracts more...
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Zum Kontext von Innovation und Imitation: Erste Auswertungen einer empirischen Erhebung
Schewe, Gerhard - 1989
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IMK Finanzmarktstabilitätsreport 2016: Regulatorischen Fortschritt weiterentwickeln
Theobald, Thomas; Tober, Silke; Lojak, Benjamin - 2017
Der IMK Finanzmarktstabilitätsreport beschäftigt sich mit internationalen und nationalen Entwicklungen, die eine Bedrohung für die Stabilität des Finanzsystems darstellen. Aktuell gehören zu diesen Entwicklungen die hohe Verschuldung im chinesischen Unternehmenssektor und der hohe Anteil...
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Schwerpunkt Energiemarkt: ZEW-Energiemarktbarometer, Jahrgang 2018
2018
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Global migration governance
Betts, Alexander - 2008
International migration represents one of the most obvious contemporary manifestations of globalization. With growth in … 1970 and 2005, the number of international migrants increased from 82 million to 200 million, comprising 3% of the world …
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Improving institutional coherence: Managing interplay between trade and climate change
Stilwell, Matthew - 2009
last year has seen a rising tide of public concern, as well as pronouncements by the world's leading scientific body on … economic activity and international trade. According to the Stern Review, authored by the former World Bank Senior Economist … Sir Nicolas Stern, "climate change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen". Responding to climate change …
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Reinvigorating debate on WTO reform: The contours of a functional and normative approach to analyzing the WTO system
Deere Birkbeck, Carolyn - 2009
, only five years after the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the collapse of the Seattle Ministerial …
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