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Public services and liveability in European cities in comparison
Holzner, Mario; Römisch, Roman - 2021
A high level of public services in housing, transport, education and health care is essential for liveability in urban centres, as shown in this report, with the help of European data for large cities. Inhabitants of larger cities, where the housing market is heavily commercialised in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605243
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Expanding the welfare system: a proposal for reform
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - In: The welfare state in Europe: Challenges and reforms, (pp. 101-117). 1998
The proposal involves the establishment of 'welfare accounts' for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313982
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El Programa Ser Pilo Paga : Impactos Iniciales En Equidad En El Acceso a La Educación Superior Y El Desempeño Académico (Ser Pilo Paga Educational Program: Initial Impacts on Equit...
Alvarez-Rivadulla, Maria Jose - 2017
Spanish Abstract: En 2014 el Ministerio de Educación Nacional de Colombia lanzó el programa Ser Pilo Paga como parte del objetivo de convertir el país en el más educado de América Latina en el 2025. Desde su creación, el programa ha beneficiado a más de 30,000 jóvenes de escasos recursos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945832
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Gender Analysis of Public Expenditures for Education, Agriculture, Working Compensation and Civic Participation in the Republic of Moldova
Petroia, Andrei - 2016
.Gender analysis of expenditure is one tool within a wide-ranging school of analysis called gender budgeting. Gender budgeting provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992339
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Public services and liveability in European cities in comparison
Holzner, Mario; Römisch, Roman - 2021
A high level of public services in housing, transport, education and health care is essential for liveability in urban centres, as shown in this report, with the help of European data for large cities. Inhabitants of larger cities, where the housing market is heavily commercialised in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602704
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Eating or Meeting? The Dubious Case for Free School Breakfasts
Kealey, Terence - 2021
The Conservative Party’s manifesto for the June 2017 general election included a policy to replace free school lunches … with free school breakfasts for all school children. After the election, the policy was abandoned. The Conservative … manifesto justified the policy by appealing to research into the educational effects of free school breakfasts conducted by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224287
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444749
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Gasto en la mira: Evaluando el Gasto Público
Díaz, Roger (contributor); Morón, Eduardo (contributor);  … - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del …
El presente libro recopila investigaciones realizadas por jóvenes estudiantes y recién egresados de economía con motivo del I Concurso Nacional: ¨Gasto en la mira: Evaluando el gasto público¨, organizado por la Universidad del Pacífico con el apoyo de Global Development Network (GDN). Las...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933520
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Expanding the welfare system : a proposal for reform
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
The proposal involves the establishment of ?welfare accounts? for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955894
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Public Provision of Education and Government Spending in Pakistan
Akram, Muhammad; Khan, Faheem Jehangir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on education in Pakistan at the provincial (both rural and urban) level, using the primary data of the Pakistan Social Standard Living Measures Survey (PSLM), 2004-2005, and by employing the three-step Benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365048