Financialising the State : Recent development in fiscal and monetary policy [PDF]
Understanding the nature of state financialisation is crucial to ensure definancialisation efforts are successful. This paper provides a structured overview of the emerging literature on financialisation and the state.
Centurion-Vicencio, Marcos +1 more
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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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Corporate initiatives of the clergy of Tobolsk diocese in the field of financial security of the clergy in the last quarter of the 19th — early 20th centuries [PDF]
The article deals with the initiatives of the clergy of the Tobolsk diocese in the issue of material provision of clergy and clergymen in the last quarter of the XIX - early XX centuries.
Alexander Kruglikov
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Nordic welfare financiers made global portfolio investors : institutional change in pension fund governance in Sweden and Finland [PDF]
Pension funds have lately emerged as an essential field of study in various disciplines within social sciences. Political economists, economic geographers and some social policy researchers have studied the role of pension funds very broadly for instance
Roumpakis, Antonios, Sorsa, Ville-Pekka
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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Achieving simplicity, security and choice in retirement? An assessment of the government's proposed pensions reforms [PDF]
On 17 December 2002, the government published a Department for Work and Pensions Green Paper about working and saving for retirementұ and a set of Inland Revenue proposals for reforms to the tax treatment of private pensions.2 Of the options explored in ...
Emmerson, C., Wakefield, M.
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities
Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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Social Security: The Government Pension Offset [PDF]
CRS ReportCRSGovtPensionOffset.pdf: 383 downloads, before Oct.
Haltzel, Laura
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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model
Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
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Investment Potential of the System of Non-state Pension Provision of Ukraine [PDF]
The goal of the article is the study of the issue of transformation of pension savings into the investment resource and justification of practical approaches and theoretical grounds of development of the system of pension insurance as a source of investments into Ukrainian economy. The article underlines problems of development and attraction of a wide
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