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Public Budgeting and Social Welfare

1994
Decentralisability of an expenditure-constrained optimisation problem is satisfied if optimal allocations of expenditures within each of several sectors can be expressed as a function of sectoral expenditure and sectoral prices only. Price aggregation is satisfied if optimal allocations to the sectors can be expressed as a function of total expenditure
Charles Blackorby, R. Robert Russell
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Corruption In Public Procurement And Social Welfare

The Journal of Developing Areas, 2017
There are several reasons why a firm would want to pay a bribe to a high-level official when bidding for a large scale project. One reason is to induce the corrupt official and/or his agent to manipulate their evaluation of contract proposals in favor of the firm.
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Departments of Public Welfare or Social Services

2006
Abstract This chapter addresses the practice of social work in public welfare and social services; settings from which the profession has retreated. A survey by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) indicated less than 1% of membership worked in these public sector settings.
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Coercion and Social Welfare in Public Finance

2014
Although coercion is a fundamental and unavoidable part of our social lives, economists have not offered an integrated analysis of its role in the public economy. The essays in this book focus on coercion arising from the operation of the fiscal system, a major part of the public sector. Collective choices on fiscal matters emerge from and have all the
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The Humanitarian Foundation of Public Support for Social Welfare

American Journal of Political Science, 2001
We explore the impact of prosocial orientations on a domain of American public opinion that has puzzled many-attitudes toward social welfare policies. We focus on the orientation of humanitarianism, i.e., a sense of obligation to help those in need, and find that this value can explain support for a wide variety of social welfare policies.
Stanley Feldman, Marco R. Steenbergen
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Public Relations: An Inescapable Obligation in Social Welfare

Social Service Review, 1953
Attacks on welfare programs during the past few years have served to call attention to the need for more effective public relations. To the extent that these attacks have been based upon false premises, they have shown the urgency of making the nature and purpose of welfare programs much clearer.
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The politics of public versus private social welfare

2010
The United States has a divided social system in that both the public and private sectors provide citizens with benefits and services. The effects of political party control on public social policy are widely known. An area of study less understood is how partisanship influences private social benefits.
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The Field of the Church in Social Work and Public Welfare

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1923
THE orientation of the churches with the modern social movement is a matter of great perplexity. In the first place, the social movement itself, especially in its community aspects, is comparatively recent, and is developing and differentiating with amazing rapidity. New and highly specialized professions are arising within the field of social work. At
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Reviewing the issue of publicity in social welfare

Korean Public Administration Review, 2021
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Public and Private Social Welfare

2010
Willem Adema, Peter Whiteford
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