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An academic inquiry into flood risk adaptation strategies and the resilience of riverbank-dwelling families in major urban centers of the Zamboanga Peninsula Region, Philippines

Moreno, Frede; Sulasula, Josephine - 2024

This study explores flood risk adaptation strategies and the resilience of riverbank-dwelling families in major urban centers of the Zamboanga Peninsula, Philippines. It examines the challenges these communities face in coping with recurrent flooding and identifies the factors that influence...

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Leadership Approach in Human Resources Management Aspect of Bangladeshi Organizations

Hossain, Md. Amir; Zhou, Dong Sheng; Hossain, Md Ekram - 2012

Leadership is a function of the relationship between leaders and followers and a leader plays a vital role to manage the human resources and to reshape an organization for its better output. A contingency-based approach would have future leadership capabilities determined by a culture itself...

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The Decommissioning of the Middle Class

MAVROZACHARAKIS, EMMANOUIL; DIMARI, GEORGIA - 2018

: The euro crisis has threatened the balance of social structures, through the impoverishment of the middle class, in almost all countries of the Old Continent. This trend has not only posed a threat to social cohesion, but it also threats the very nature of the so-called Western-style...

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Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019

Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of intergenerational transfers, however, can dampen these intended policy effects, as adult children who make...

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Pensions sociales et réduction de la pauvreté. Le cas du Maroc.

Loumrhari, Ghizlan - 2016

This paper is interested in the question of the social pensions. In Morocco a big part of the elderly in Morocco perceives no pension and no transfer of any form. To solve the problem of the poverty of the elderly persons passes by the implementation of a social pension. This article is...

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Fiscal Policy Innovations In Advanced Economies

Ackon, Kwabena Meneabe - 2020

Unprecedented is a word that best describes the current state of advanced economies. Interest rates are low in many advanced countries and negative in a few others suggesting that monetary policy has lost its effectiveness. The economic policy tool that has not been implemented yet by many...

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Recent reforms of the tax and benefit systems in the framework of flexicurity

Carone, Giuseppe; Stovicek, Klara; Pierini, Fabiana; … - 2009

This paper provides an analysis of recent reforms of tax-benefit systems and a preliminary assessment of their impact …, especially for the low-skilled, embedded in tax and benefit systems, a greater link with activation policies and a stronger …

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Adjust Me if I Can’t: The Effect of Firm Incentives on Labor Supply Responses to Taxes

Tazhitdinova, Alisa - 2015

– to the mini-job threshold that generates large discontinuous changes both in the marginal tax rates and in the total in …- come and payroll tax liability of individuals in Germany. Sharp bunching translates into elasticity estimates that are an … observed response, I show that in addition to tax rates, fringe benefit payments also change at the threshold. Mini-job workers …

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The Mexican Defined Contribution Pension System: Perspective for Low Income Workers

Oliver, Azuara - 2004

This paper analyzes the structure and perspectives of the current pension system, introduced in 1997 as part of Mexico’s structural changes. In particular, it focuses on the effects of the system on poverty after retirement and emphasizes the redistributive component of its design. In...

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Systemy Emerytalne w Europie - Belgia

Poteraj, Jarosław - 2007

The article presents an insight into the old age pension system in Belgium. The introduction is followed by four topic paragraphs: 1. the general information about the country, 2. the historical development of its pension system, 3. the present situation, and 4. challenges and foreseen changes....

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