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Assessing Fiscal Risks in Bangladesh [PDF]

Asian Development Review, 2018
This paper identifies, quantifies, and assesses fiscal risks in Bangladesh. By performing sensitivity analysis and using stochastic simulations, it measures risks arising from shocks to gross domestic product growth, the exchange rate, commodity prices ...
Leandro Medina
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
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, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 301-328, March 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Pension Ready Pension Happy

Journal of Economics, Finance And Management Studies
This international community service program (PKM) aims to improve the financial literacy of the Indonesian diaspora in Myanmar, with a focus on retirement readiness. Through observations and interviews, it was found that low financial literacy is a major obstacle in long-term financial planning.
M. Nuruddin Subhan, Riska Yustisiana, Bintang Andhyka, Wasi Widayadi, Murthada Sinuraya, Nathaniel Ephraim Panggabean, Shan Nemuel Andres, Monabila Magelo   +7 more
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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Why do people choose to enter and exit the teaching profession? An interdisciplinary quantitative synthesis

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Many nations experience recurring shortages of teachers in particular subjects, prompting concerns that pupils' education is suffering as a result. Researchers have responded by generating a sizable literature on the reasons for which people enter and exit the teaching profession.
Sam Sims, Harriet Lowes‐Belk, Clare Routledge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

International perspectives on measuring national digital public health system maturity through a multidisciplinary Delphi study

npj Digital Medicine
Unlocking the full potential of digital public health (DiPH) systems requires a comprehensive tool to assess their maturity. While the World Health Organization and the International Telecommunication Union released a toolkit in 2012 covering various ...
Laura Maaß, Hajo Zeeb, Heinz Rothgang
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall, Yusraa Maryam, Sumeya Loonat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unge lovbrytere og overgangen til voksenlivet

Søkelys på Arbeidslivet
Vi analyserer kjennetegn og livsløpsutfall for unge som blir straffet for lovbrudd begått i alderen 15–24 år, ved hjelp av registerdata som dekker hele befolkningen født i tidsperioden 1985–1988 inntil 30-årsalder. Vi finner at unge straffede i snitt har
Christopher Markhus Poots, Susanna Sten-Gahmberg   +1 more
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