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Uneven Progress in Meeting E-Government Challenges in Asia-Pacific
Wescott, Clay G. - 2014
E-government holds the promise of improving administrative efficiency and citizen participation, but can also reinforce traditional administrative processes. This paper reviews the evidence, mainly from case studies, of these processes. It looks both at Asia-Pacific jurisdictions, and the wider...
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Immigrant and Native Consumption of Means‐​Tested Welfare and Entitlement Benefits in 2016 : Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Le, Tu - 2020
percent of all federal outlays in that year. About $1.6 trillion of those expenditures went to Social Security and Medicare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843841
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La demografia dell’Italia e delle Regioni italiane. Uno sguardo alle proiezioni a medio-lungo termine
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The demographic database of Istat (www.istat.it)is explored and the main facts are extracted and described, both at the aggregate national level as well as at the regional one. This paper is completely self-standing but, at the same time, poses the basis for a more general analysis that will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259816
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La demanda por calorías en los hogares peruanos y su impacto en la productividad de los individuos en el mercado laboral
Gallegos, José; Lavado, Pablo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2005
efecto positivo en el desempeño del individuo en el mercado laboral. Por otro lado, la evidencia mostraría que los programas … sociales más difundidos no necesariamente habrían logrado cumplir sus objetivos, pues incluso habrían mermado el bienestar de … las familias. De manera paralela surge otra problemática: ¿es la línea de pobreza extrema una medida adecuada para …
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The 2014 Long-Term Budget Outlook
Congressional Budget Office, United States Congress; … - 2014
Although federal deficits have shrunk markedly in recent years, growing spending for Social Security and major health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010813777
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Aid Effectiveness: Politics Matters
Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...
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African Economic Blocs and Trade : Case Study of COMESA and Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011
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The Impacts of Foreign Currency Exchange Rates on Savings in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011
The impacts of fluctuations of exchange rates of foreign hard currencies are well documented in economics literature. There are measures taken over by countries to absorb their impacts on income, employment and national economies ability to function and produce. However, distortions are observed...
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Using Computable General Equilibrium for the Assessment of Impacts of Value-Added Tax in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2012
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Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration
Herrmann, Peter; Maesen, Laurent J.G. van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The main issue of this article is to discuss the question of ‘precarity’ in the context of the theory of social quality … theory of social quality – means a new stage of socialisation of the problems by further individualisation of the victims. In …
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