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The Subjective Nature of ESG Approaches
Gambles, Paul; Fraser, James; Ung, Jureemas; Endo, Nuttika - 2022
The saying ‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions’ could have been coined to describe the 5,000 years journey to what is today known as ESG. This references the progression, if that indeed is the correct term, outlined in the comprehensive, informed and informative but...
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Military Veterans and Social Security : 2010 Update
Olsen, Anya - 2015
More than 1 out of 5 adult Social Security beneficiaries has served in the military, and veterans and their families comprise 35 percent of the beneficiary population. Policymakers are particularly concerned with the economic well-being of veterans and their family members, who may receive...
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Cut Off From Caregivers : The Children of Incarcerated Parents in Louisiana
Kirkland, Auriel; Jones, Victor M.; Blackburn, Cheyenne; … - 2021
potential to cut short students’ education and increase the likelihood that they themselves will be incarcerated. The struggle …
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The Social Costs of Financial Crises
Van Dijk, Mathijs A. - 2013
health, education, poverty, and gender issues. A wider-angle lens exposes broad-ranging implications for society. For example … employment suffer at least as much for developed countries, the social costs of financial crises are much greater for less …
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A Conceptual Analysis of State Support for Higher Education : Appropriations versus Need-Based Financial Aid
Toutkoushian, Robert K. - 2009
education. Next, we introduce a simple economic model for comparing and contrasting appropriations and need-based aid for … supporting higher education. We then provide a graphical depiction of the model and simulate the effects of each policy on access … to higher education. We show that it is in the best interest of states to provide need-based aid and not appropriations …
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Publicly-provided Services and the Distribution of Resources
Marical, François; Mira d'Ercole, Marco; Vaalavuo, Maria; … - 2006
This report looks at the effects on the distribution of household income of those government-provided services that confer a personal benefit to users. While most of the comparative evidence of the size and evolution of income inequalities in OECD countries relies on the concept of household...
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Social Policies, Family Types and Child Outcomes in Selected OECD Countries
Kamerman, Sheila; Neuman, Michelle; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2003
Child development and child well-being are major concerns in many OECD countries and are the subject of ongoing work at the OECD. These concerns have led to a search for policies to offset poverty, deprivation, vulnerability, and the risk factors that can trigger a lifelong cycle of...
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Vers une croissance plus inclusive en Tunisie
De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Larbi, Hédi; Dridi, Raja - 2018
Le niveau de vie moyen des Tunisiens a augmenté de façon continue depuis plusieurs décennies tandis que la pauvreté et les inégalités ont largement diminué grâce à la mise en oeuvre de nombreux programmes sociaux. L’accès aux infrastructures de base telles que l’eau potable ou...
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Can "good" social mobility news be "bad" and vice versa? : measurement (and downward mobility) pitfalls
Iversen, Vegard - 2020
Limited attention has been paid to how well social mobility measures debated and used to study industrial countries perform in analysis of low-income settings. Following brief, selective reviews of the axiomatic and econometric literatures, three mobility concepts illustrate how properties that...
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Social development - a multidimensional approach to social development analysis : country level evidence
Lechman, Ewa - 2013
The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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