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Voluntary and community welfare
2019This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of a chapter published in Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare. Details of the definitive published version and how to purchase it are available online at: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/understanding-the-mixed-economy-of-welfare-1 For re-use please see publisher's terms and ...
Rees, James, Macmillan, Rob
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An experiment in community welfare
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences, 1977Abstract The district of Kigezi in SW Uganda 10 years ago was fairly typical of much of East Africa: over half the population under the age of 16; 60 % of the men and 80 % of the women unable to read or write. The average cash income per head was less than £16 per annum, farms were hardly above subsistence level and disease abounded ...
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Insurance and Community Welfare
Journal of Urban Economics, 2001Abstract Federal relief and insurance programs for households living in areas subject to natural disasters have evolved in the absence of private insurance. Conventional wisdom suggests that these programs serve only to subsidize those choosing to live in hazardous areas at the expense of the taxpaying public.
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2014
As we have seen earlier in this book, young people’s participation in education, training or employment is related in complex ways to their individual circumstances and their location within broader social structures. Whilst educational achievement is a central factor in intergenerational patterns of advantage and disadvantage, young people’s ...
Robin Simmons +2 more
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As we have seen earlier in this book, young people’s participation in education, training or employment is related in complex ways to their individual circumstances and their location within broader social structures. Whilst educational achievement is a central factor in intergenerational patterns of advantage and disadvantage, young people’s ...
Robin Simmons +2 more
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The design of an online community for welfare recipients
Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, 2012We present the design of an online community targeting people currently in receipt of welfare payments to help them find a job and become financially self-sufficient. We developed and deployed this online community in partnership with the Australian Government's Department of Human Services.
Sanat Kumar Bista +3 more
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The Community-Based Welfare System: An Alternative to Public Welfare
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1973The New Society cannot be created solely among the affluent and well educated. The poor, who more than all others are victims of the present social order, must join in the invention of alternative institutions. An alternative to the existing system of Public Assisttance is proposed which seeks to institutionalize new concepts of work, employment ...
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