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Expanding the measure of wealth : indicators of environmentally sustainable development

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Successfully Adapting Health and Social Care to an Older Population in Croatia : Policy Note

World Bank - 2020

This policy note assesses Croatia’s readiness for increased longevity. It focuses on health and social care services for the elderly, identifying critical gaps, or open questions, in the key areas of services, workforce, financing and governance. The aim is to support reforms that strengthen...

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Building resilience to climate change in South Caucasus agriculture

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Climate change governance

Meadowcroft, James - 2009

"Climate change governance poses difficult challenges for contemporary political/administrative systems. These systems evolved to handle other sorts of problems and must now be adapted to handle emerging issues of climate change mitigation and adaptation. This paper examines long-term climate...

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Policies facilitating firm adjustment to globalization

Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2004

"Hoekman and Javorcik focus on policies facilitating firm adjustment to globalization. They briefly review the effects of trade and investment liberalization on firms, focusing on within-industry effects. They postulate that governments' role in supporting the process is to (1) ensure that firms...

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Moldova - The Consequences of Several Shocks for Consumption and Poverty

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The distribution of consumption in Moldova implies that changes in workers' remittances, migration, and energy prices could influence consumption and poverty rates in some unexpected and even counter-intuitive ways. Relatively well-off groups, rather than the poor, benefit most from remittances...

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Lluch, Constantino - 1977

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Understanding Income Security for Older Adults - Rethink Social Protection and Jobs in an Actively Aging World

World Bank - 2025

The note first discusses the main pillars of financial securityat older ages before focusing on the status of contributory and noncontributory (orsocial) pension systems in developing countries. It highlights worrying under-coverage ofcontributory pension systems in the face of persistent labor...

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Growing old in an older Brazil : implications of population ageing on growth, poverty, public finance and service delivery

Gragnolati, Michele (contributor) - 2011

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