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Regulating Private Welfare : The Causes and Consequences of Failures in the Provision of Private Welfare
Plantinga, Mirjam; Corra, Alex D. R. - 2013
The welfare state is undergoing profound changes. In most Western countries private elements are introduced in formerly public welfare systems. These processes of privatisation mark the transformation from the conventional welfare state, in which the government fulfils the role of a public...
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Population Trends and Policies in the UNECE Region : Outcomes, Policies and Possibilities
Vobecká, Jana; Butz, William; Reyes, Gerald - 2013
The Report discusses recent trends in population and related outcomes as well as the policies that may influence these outcomes in the UNECE region (Europe, North America, post-Soviet Republics, and Israel), always through a lens focusing attention on the future. The Report is structured into...
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India Infrastructure Report 2002 - Governance Issues for Commercialisation
Morris, Sebastian; Shekhar, Rajiv - 2013
IIR 2002 focuses on one of the most fundamental building blocks of a reform agenda, namely, governance frameworks for commercialization. It was in December 2000 that we first mooted the subject of governance for this issue of the IIR. Subsequent developments, such as the Enron saga, the Orissa...
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The Challenge to Governance in India
Morris, Sebastian - 2012
approaches, and laws that are unfair or contradictory. Categorises corruption and casts the same in a historical framwork …. Corruption therefore is a result of economic policy, law and institutional failure rather than the other way around. Overcoming … corruption is possible by bringing about change at the roots of the phenomenon. Lays out a perpective for governance reform for …
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DNA Lean Philosophy to Develop. Innovate and Overcome, Creating Value and Benefits
Lu, Julio - 2021
La versión española de este artículo se puede encontrar en: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3132227. The TPS - Toyota Production System first known worldwide as Just In Time (JIT), then as Lean Production, however as Toyota claims, both names do not communicate and nor completely capture the spirit...
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Unemployment : The Silent Epidemic
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2017
This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment — its propagation mechanism and socioeconomic costs. It identifies a key feature of this macroeconomic phenomenon: it behaves like a disease. A detailed assessment of the transmission mechanism and the existing pecuniary and nonpecuniary...
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The Determinants of Development Projects’ First Disbursement Delay : The Case of the African Development Bank
Gohou, Gaston - 2015
International aid effectiveness has recently been significantly questioned in the development literature with regard to the large amount of aid received by developing countries to finance development projects and the mixed results achieved. However, assessment of development projects is not an...
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Σακελλαρόπουλος Θεόδωρος &Μαρίνα Αγγελάκη,(2018), « Ευρωπαϊκή κοινωνική πολιτική και το κοινωνικό κράτος στην Ελλάδα» (Sakellaropoulos Theodoros & Marina Angelaki (2018), European Social Policy and the Greek Welfare State)
Sakellaropoulos, Theodoros - 2019
Greek Abstract: Το κεφάλαιο επικεντρώνεται στην εξέταση της εξέλιξης του κοινωνικού κράτους στην Ελλάδα από το δεύτερο μισό του 20ού αιώνα και εφεξής επιδιώκοντας...
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Another brick on the Wall : On the Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being
Bando Grana, Rosangela; Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, … - 2021
Public expenditures on non-contributory pensions are equivalent to at least 1 percent of GDP in several countries in Latin America and is expected to increase. We explore the effect of non-contributory pensions on the well-being of the beneficiary population by studying the Pensiones...
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Dimensions of Altruism : Do Evaluations of Prosocial Behavior Track Social Good or Personal Sacrifice?
Johnson, Samuel - 2018
Do we praise altruistic acts because they produce social benefits or because they entail a personal sacrifice? Across five studies, we find that people mainly rely on personal cost rather than social benefit when evaluating prosocial actors. This occurs because sacrifice, but not benefit, is...
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