Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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The Urgent Need for Developing a Common Health Insurance Policy in Bangladesh: A Perspective. [PDF]
Saha S, Reza SB, Mazid MA, Dewan SMR.
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[Multimorbidity and its Importance in Future Health Care in Germany: a Secondary Data Analysis Based on 67 Million Health Insurance Policy Holders]. [PDF]
Schmitz MT +4 more
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Optimal wildfire insurance in the wildland-urban interface in the presence of a government subsidy for fire risk mitigation [PDF]
We investigate the effectiveness of a government subsidy and mitigation based insurance contracts at discouraging migration into the wildland interface and at inducing incentives for risk mitigation.
Jonathan Yoder +2 more
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ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn +4 more
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Health insurance policy enforcement and catastrophic health expenditure: a case study in Sichuan province, China. [PDF]
Liu W, Huang G.
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Safety Nets or Trampolines? Federal Crop Insurance, Disaster Assistance, and the Farm Bill [PDF]
We review the implications of the 2007 Farm Bill for the risk management dimensions of U.S. agriculture and policy. Legislative proposals suggest significant changes in risk management policy, including the introduction of state or national revenue ...
Goodwin, Barry K., Rejesus, Roderick M.
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ABSTRACT Disability support has shifted towards models of personalised care, which critics argue may contribute to increased inequalities. There is limited systematic evidence investigating inequalities in support among children with disabilities. To investigate inequalities in support, a survey of parents of children with disabilities aged 2–17 was ...
Martin O'Flaherty +2 more
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How to evaluate long-term care insurance policy based on policy tools and PMC index model: evidence from pilot cities in China. [PDF]
Wang AQ +7 more
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WEATHER INSURANCE TO PROTECT SPECIALTY CROPS AGAINST COSTS OF IRRIGATION IN DROUGHT YEARS [PDF]
The purpose of this research is to develop a rainfall insurance product to insure irrigation costs applied to NAP crops, and to compare the efficacy of this insurance on a dollar basis relative to conventional crop insurance.
Mafoua, Edouard
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