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On the Distributional Implications of Social Protection Reforms in Latin America [PDF]
The paper tracks recent changes in the components of social protection in Latin America, the reforms to social insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality and implications ...
Barrientos, Armando
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Assessing the Need for a Social Worker at the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf [PDF]
, 2016 Introduction: Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf (CEFS) Largest direct service emergency food provider in Vermont Serves over 12,000 people/year Works to alleviate hunger through grocery services, hot meals, and home delivery Offers a culinary job ...
Adamson, Grace +8 more
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Welfare and Redistributive Effects of Social Assistance in the Global South
Population and Development Review, 2019 This paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological ...
M. Niño-Zarazúa
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Organoids in pediatric cancer research
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Organoid technology has revolutionized cancer research, yet its application in pediatric oncology remains limited. Recent advances have enabled the development of pediatric tumor organoids, offering new insights into disease biology, treatment response, and interactions with the tumor microenvironment.
Carla Ríos Arceo, Jarno Drost
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Efficiency and equity effects of social grants in South Africa [PDF]
This paper discusses the nature and effects of social grants programmes in South Africa against the backdrop of international trends in the reform of social assistance systems. It shows that South Africa has a well-developed social assistance system that
Bongisa Lekezwa +2 more
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Joint submission to the Portfolio Committee on Social Development on the Social Assistance Bill [PDF]
, 2003 Joint submission by the Children's Institute and the Black Sash on behalf of a number of organisations, 18 September ...
Rosa, Solange, Frye, Isobel
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Reciprocal control of viral infection and phosphoinositide dynamics
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Phosphoinositides, although scarce, regulate key cellular processes, including membrane dynamics and signaling. Viruses exploit these lipids to support their entry, replication, assembly, and egress. The central role of phosphoinositides in infection highlights phosphoinositide metabolism as a promising antiviral target.
Marie Déborah Bancilhon, Bruno Mesmin
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European schemes of social assistance: an empirical analysis of set-ups and distributive impacts [PDF]
This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify ...
Hölsch, Katja, Kraus, Margit
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Fluorescent probes allow dynamic visualization of phosphoinositides in living cells (left), whereas mass spectrometry provides high‐sensitivity, isomer‐resolved quantitation (right). Their synergistic use captures complementary aspects of lipid signaling. This review illustrates how these approaches reveal the spatiotemporal regulation and quantitative
Hiroaki Kajiho +3 more
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How Tight are Safety-Nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish Register Data [PDF]
The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially biased by misreporting and ...
Heikki Viitamäki +2 more
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