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Pensions and power : the political and market dynamics of public pension plans
Kolasi, Erald - In: Review of capital as power 2 (2022) 2, pp. 46-80
This paper uses the theory of "capital as power" to analyze the struggle over public pensions in the United States …. While mainstream commentators claim that public pensions must be "reformed" because they are "under funded", I argue that … enormous investment fees associated with it. I propose that the deconstruction of public pensions is part of a larger effort to …
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Gender and social protection in South Asia : an assessment of the design of non-contributory programmes
Tebaldi, Raquel; Bilo, Charlotte - 2019
Social protection has received increased attention as a measure to reduce poverty and vulnerability and achieve social transformation, including the reduction of gender inequality. According to the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B 2019), to contribute to gender equality,...
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Gender and social protection in South Asia : an assessment of the design of non-contributory programmes : executive summary
Tebaldi, Raquel; Bilo, Charlotte - 2019
Social protection has received increased attention as a measure to reduce poverty and vulnerability and achieve social transformation, including the reduction of gender inequality. According to the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B 2019), to contribute to gender equality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105141
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Social policy reforms and economic distances in China, 2002-2013
Gao, Qin; Yang, Sui; Zhai, Fuhua; Wang, Yake - 2017
, and migrant household sectors. We find that over the years pensions in the urban areas consistently helped narrow the …
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The impact of social security on household welfare : evidence from a transition country
Cuong Viet Nguyen - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 25 (2013) 5, pp. 737-756
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Pensiones de capitalización individual en América Latina : efectos, reformas, impacto del COVID-19 y propuestas de política
Mesa-Lago, Carmelo - 2022
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The impact of non-contributory cash transfers on poverty in Latin America
Cecchini, Simone; Villatoro S., Pablo; Mancero, Xavier - In: CEPAL review 134 (2021), pp. 7-31
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Reducing poverty and social disparities in Lithuania
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - 2020
Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across population groups with the elderly, people with...
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The emergence and consolidation of microsimulation methods in France
Legendre, François - In: Economie et statistique 510/511/512 (2019), pp. 201-217
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Jumping the welfare gap in designing public transfers
Simonovits, András - 2017
We consider three transfer models with a representative individual who discounts the utility of the merit good with respect to the standard one's. In each model, a paternalistic government taxes the consumer and transfers him additional merit goods in return. The private purchase of the merit...
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