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Sequencing social security, pension, and insurance reform [PDF]
For both economic and regulatory reasons, most developing countries have underdeveloped pension funds and insurance sectors, and their social security systems face many financial and organizational problems. Wide-ranging reform would produce considerable
Vittas, Dimitri
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Elizabeth Fry—A Note-Worthy Friend
, 2019 Her picture is on the five-pound British note. She brought about prison reform in Britain. Her school of nursing inspired Florence Nightingale. She was the first woman to address Parliament.
Anderson, Paul N.
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Social Security Reform: Legal Analysis of Social Security Benefit Entitlement Issues [PDF]
, 2013 [Excerpt] Calculations indicating that in the long run the Social Security program will not be financially sustainable under the present statutory scheme have fueled the current debate regarding Social Security reform.
Nicola, Thomas J, Swendiman, Kathleen S
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Towards universal health coverage: lessons from 10 years of healthcare reform in China. [PDF]
, 2020 Universal health coverage (UHC) is driving the global health agenda. Many countries have embarked on national policy reforms towards this goal, including China. In 2009, the Chinese government launched a new round of healthcare reform towards UHC, aiming
Chuong, Linh +9 more
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Reforming Social Welfare as We Know It? A Microsimulation Study for Germany [PDF]
Social assistance and unemployment assistance, which provide means tested income support (social welfare) without pre-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many economists.
Jacobebbinghaus, Peter, Steiner, Viktor
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Slovak Health-care Reform: Greater Privatization [PDF]
The paper summarizes recent health-care reform in Slovakia and the reform's general rationale, provides a brief theoretical background, and describes the reform measures both adopted and proposed. The authors assess the early experience and the impact of
Anton Marcinèin +2 more
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Freedom of the Press – two concepts
Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2015 In 1644 the debate for freedom of expression started in modern times thanks to John Milton’s Areopagitica, where he still argued about God in order to justify his quest for freedom.
Markus Meckl
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Competing Disraeli-isms: Tory Democracy and One-Nation Conservatism
Cahiers Victoriens et EdouardiensThis chapter explores Benjamin Disraeli’s influence on two strands of Conservative Party ideology: Tory democracy and one-nation conservatism. Both rejected laissez-faire economics and promoted social reform, but one-nation conservatives favoured a more ...
David Jeffery
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Social Security Reform and National Saving in an Era of Budget Surpluses [PDF]
macroeconomics, Social Security, Social Security Reform, National Saving, Budget ...
Douglas W. Elmendorf, Jeffrey B. Liebman
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For Better and for Worse? On the Transformation of the Finnish Social Assistance Scheme
Social Work and Society, 2020 The recent reform of Finnish social assistance may be described as, in many ways, going against the European tide toward a welfare service state. The reform involved the transfer of the implementation of social assistance from municipal frontline ...
Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll
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