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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.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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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.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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Jurnal JurisprudencePurpose of the Study: This research aims to analyze the legal responsibility of insurers in rejecting life insurance claims based on policyholders’ non-material information. This study analyzes the Decision of the Medan High Court No.
Dhian Indah Astanti Dhian Indah Astanti +2 more
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Tunisia's insurance sector [PDF]
The main economic functions of the insurance sector are to cover financial risk and to mobilize long-term savings. The sector can also play an important role in developing the private sector and modernizing the securities market. But to play its economic
Vittas, Dimitri
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa +2 more
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The insurance industry in Mauritius [PDF]
The insurance industry is relatively well developed. It makes extensive use of reinsurance facilities and is free from the pervasive premium, product, investment, and reinsurance controls that have bedeviled the insurance markets of so many developing ...
Vittas, Dimitri
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Cost efficiency and profitability in Thailand's life insurance industry: A stochastic cost frontier approach [PDF]
, 2005 Liberalized environments brought about by trade agreements and other restructuring of international markets under the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS) have increased market opportunities for foreign firms. This opening up of domestic market
Abd Karim, Mohd Zaini
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For adults with intellectual disability and their families, future planning and moving out of the family home in Australia will increasingly occur within the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As a market‐based, individualised funding system its impact on this transition remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a
I. Belperio +5 more
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Interlocking directorates as a thrust substitute: The case of the Italian non-life insurance industry [PDF]
This paper investigates the market structure of the insurance business by analyzing the (interlock) linkages among companies created by their directors.
Carbonai, Davide +1 more
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Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.Objective To assess real‐world effectiveness of switching disease‐modifying therapy (DMT) in pediatric multiple sclerosis (MS) and clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) initially treated with platform injectables on disease activity. Methods Of 2615 pediatric‐onset demyelinating disease patients at 12 clinics in the United States (US) Network of Pediatric
Aaron W. Abrams +27 more
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