This paper investigates policyholder protection schemes in OECD member countries and selected non-OECD countries. It is selective in its scope: it examines the rationale for a policyholder protection scheme; the relationship between certain design features and moral hazard; the role of a...

This paper applies new diagnostics to the Bank of England's pioneering density forecasts (fan charts). We compute their implicit probability forecast for annual rates of inflation and output growth that exceed a given threshold (in this case, the target inflation rate and 2.5% respectively.)...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper comprising a literature survey of interrelations between women's social role, maternity and fertility - discusses the social theory background, opportunity cost of children, economic, political, psychic and social status, role rewards, conflicts, etc. Bibliography...

Explores patterns and causes of female headship of households among the three major ethnic communities in Eastern Sri Lanka: Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim. Argues that female headed households are an enduring feature, not a temporary product of war, and that policies should aim at letting women help...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper presenting a classification scheme for the social roles of women, intended to assist field workers in data collecting and data analysis relevant to the understanding of a range of demographic aspects and employment issues - suggests a framework of role behaviour...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the experience of rural animators in animating rural development processes based on the popular participation of poverty-stricken rural workers in Sri Lanka - analyses the participatory rural Animation processes and role of the animators; describes their...

Focuses on the emerging social group of female-headed households among the Sinhalese in Eastern Sri Lanka. Outlines perceptions of ethnicity in Sri Lanka and examines the indirect costs of ethnic conflict among the Sinhala, Tamils and Muslims. Highlights female-heads' coping strategies, economic...

(VF)Cet article s’attache à comprendre en quoi la dynamique de l’équipe de direction d’une entreprise à faible intensité capitalistique peut être un vecteur d’hypercroissance. Douze propositions théoriques sont émises à partir des approches combinées de la théorie des échelons...

La séquence historique contemporaine a vu se déployer les évaluations marchandes. D'abord, sur les marchés mondialisés des biens, la demande a progressivement renversé son rapport avec l'offre, les entreprises se disputant aujourd'hui cette ressource rare qu'est le pouvoir d'achat global....