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This paper analyzes the impact of globalization on social spending in Latin America. It shows that trade integration has a consistently negative effect on social security expenditures, and that this effect is compounded by higher integration into capital markets. The importance of political...
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There is scope for Governments to take more account of social capital in policy development, according to this Commission study. This paper suggests that social capital generally brings social and economic benefits by reducing transaction costs, promoting cooperative behaviour, diffusing...
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Understanding the role and functions of social policy and social security systems is a key point for a discussion on reforms of the retirement systems. In this essay I describe the subject and range of social policy in the modern welfare state. The work has a descriptive character and aims at...
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The study compares the performance of the Australian telecommunications services industry with those in other countries. Related papers submitted to this study by NECG Ltd. and Telecom New Zealand have been released with the report.
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conservation within a framework of sustainable economic growth and poverty alleviation. El presente trabajo explora las causas de …
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Concern is growing regarding the poverty impacts of trade liberalization. The strong general equilibrium effects of … to detailed poverty analysis. We bridge this gap by constructing a CGE model that explicitly models all households from a … models. Urban poverty falls and rural poverty increases as initial tariffs were highest for agriculture. Impacts increase …
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Are happiness patterns structurally the same when comparing poor and rich countries? Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show that the relationships between subjective well-being and socioeconomic variables have a similar structure and is U-shaped in age in South Africa as in...
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conservation within a framework of sustainable economic growth and poverty alleviation. - El presente trabajo explora las causas de …
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rose for the interpretation of changes in the poverty profile.Four household surveys are used to show changes in both … that the rise in income was ssociated with modest falls in the head count and poverty gap measures of poverty but with … virtually no change in the severity of poverty measure. The fall in the head count measure was too small to prevent the absolute …
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The goal is to try to give inputs on a global problem: eradicating poverty on a global scale. That is, to find evidence … and discuss complex problems regarding cronic poverty, a major source of instability in our world today, and to put … population in poverty and also the greatest depth of poverty. Questions that will be explored and addressed are, among others …
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