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Field Notes from the Super-Storm Sandy Catastrophe
Burleson, Elizabeth - 2012
Sandy struck a strategically important city in a strategically important country within days of a strategically important election. Climate justice has many synergistic and sometimes competing dimensions. Irrespective of the degree to which climate change contributes to any given weather event,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098402
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Energy Revolution and Disaster Response in the Face of Climate Change
Burleson, Elizabeth - 2015
Nuclear meltdown in Japan and civil society strife across the Middle East highlight the degree to which resilience is core to international peace and security. This article considers the means by which communities can become increasingly resilient through shared best practices across a range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175504
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Dividing the Pie in Brazil: Income Distribution, Social Policies and the New Middle Class
Arnold, Jens; Jalles, João - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
, the latter notably through the successful “Bolsa Familia” programme. Among public services, improved access to education … interventions such as expanding early-childhood education, by reducing grade-repetition and through more tailored support for those …'agissant des services publics, l'amélioration de l'accès à l'éducation a joué un rôle majeur, en permettant à davantage de …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276938
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What is the Domain of the Welfare State?
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
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The political economy of intergenerational cooperation
Cigno, Alessandro - 2005
The paper examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. After establishing a normative framework, we examine the properties of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261395
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Chapter 25 The political economy of intergenerational cooperation
Cigno, Alessandro - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1505-1558). 2006
This chapter examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. The contributions reviewed come from branches of economics as far apart as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023653
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Covid-19 : Efectos Económicos Y Políticas Públicas Para Enfrentar La Crisis (COVID-19: Economic Effects and Public Policies to Face the Crisis)
Benavides, Óscar Arturo - 2020
Spanish Abstract: Treinta y seis profesores, estudiantes e investigadores de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y del Centro de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo CID de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y otras instituciones, nos unimos para intentar reflexionar sobre la pandemia y la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832386
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Developing SOEPsurvey and SOEPservice: The (Near) Future of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)
Anger, S.; Frick, F.; Goebel, J.; Grabka, M.; … - 2009
Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) ist als multidisziplinäres Haushaltspanel, das Informationen zu allen Personen, die in einem Panel-Haushalt leben, erhebt und damit alle Altersjahrgänge abdeckt, nach 25 Jahren Laufzeit auch zu einer Kohorten- Studie geworden. Der zunehmende Erfolg der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600799
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Multidisciplinary Household Panel Studies under Academic Direction
Schupp, Jürgen; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
This paper concentrates on the trends in peer-reviewed longitudinal panel studies under scientific direction. Household panel studies have succeeded in broadening their disciplinary scope. Numerous innovations such as questions dealing with psychological concepts, and age-specific topical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272528
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Multidisciplinary household panel studies under academic direction
Schupp, Jürgen; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
This paper concentrates on the trends in peer-reviewed longitudinal panel studies under scientific direction. Household panel studies have succeeded in broadening their disciplinary scope. Numerous innovations such as questions dealing with psychological concepts, and age-specific topical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003963260