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The Performance of European Socially Responsible Funds

Journal of Business Ethics, 2008
Recent years have witnessed an increasing growth in mutual funds that invest according to social criteria. As a consequence, the financial performance of these portfolios has attracted the interest of academics and practitioners. This paper investigates the performance of a sample of socially responsible mutual funds from seven European countries ...
Maria Ceu Cortez, Florinda Silva, Nelson Areal   +2 more
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The social dimension of European cohesion policy in a 27-state Europe: an analysis of the European Social Fund

European Journal of Social Work, 2010
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European Social Fund

1999
Abstract In Article 117 of the EEC Treaty, Member States agreed upon the need to promote improved working conditions and an improved standard of living for workers. They believed that such improvements would ensue not only from the functioning of the common market but also from the procedures provided for in the Treaty.
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The European Social Fund and the Employment at the European Level [PDF]

Revista Tinerior Economisti(The Young Economists Journal), 2008
The economic and social cohesion was in the last decade one of the priority subjects of the European Agenda. In an enlarged European Union, ESF has to contribute to the growth of the employment of the internal market by facilitating the mobility and the adaptation of the labour force, determining the growth of the living standard of the European ...
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Economic and Social Cohesion and the European Social Fund

1997
Abstract Of .all the structural funds which the institution now known as the European Union (EU) has organized to carry out policies aimed at modernizing, improving, and rationalizing productive structures, infrastructures, and services in the Community countries, the European Social Fund (ESF) is the only one whose creation has a ...
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Title XI The European Social Fund

2019
The European Social Fund (ESF) provides financial support to MS for action that increases the employability of existing and potential workers. It is now one of the Structural Funds and is, apart from the rules on eligibility of actions, governed by provisions that are common to those Funds.
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Evaluating Monitoring Systems in the European Social Fund Context

Evaluation Review, 2009
In contrast to the prevailing image of monitoring systems as technical systems, it is proposed that they should rather be conceived of as social endeavors at exchanging information. Drawing on the monitoring and evaluation framework of Cornford, Doukidis, and Forster, the concept of information agreement is suggested as a way of assessing the quality ...
Federico, Iannacci, Tony, Cornford, Antonio, Cordella, Francesco, Grillo   +3 more
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Local Policies and the European Social Fund

2019
In the context of an ‘activation turn’ in many European welfare states, the local level gained increasing relevance in the last decades and brought local social policies and national employment policies more closely together. At the same time, at the European level the European Social Fund (ESF) made a career from an unconditional simple financing ...
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The Regulation of European Social Entrepreneurship Funds (‘EuSEFs’)

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Increasingly, investors also pursue social goals and are not only seeking financial returns. For that reason, a social investment market is emerging in the EU, comprising, in part of, of investment funds targeting social undertakings. Such investment funds provide funding to social undertakings that act as drivers of social change by offering ...
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The European Social Entrepreneurship Fund Regulation

2019
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ZETZSCHE, Dirk Andreas, Preiner,
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