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From Containment to Rationalization

Author : Mr.Jean-Jacques Hallaert
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1513540130
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book From Containment to Rationalization written by Mr.Jean-Jacques Hallaert and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieving France’s medium-term fiscal targets will require significant expenditure efforts. This paper identifies areas where there is scope for increasing expenditure efficiency, with a view to achieving higher quality and more sustainable fiscal consolidation. The methodology is based on a triple benchmarking. First, the level of public expenditure in different categories is compared to other European countries. Second, the impact of spending is assessed against other European countries. Third, the input mix is analyzed to understand what components are responsible for the level of spending and for the quality of outcomes This is done for various categories of spending and policies. Based on these results, the paper then provides policy options for expenditure reform in each of these areas, drawing on successful reform episodes in other countries.

Vaccines

Author : Ciro A. de Quadros
Publisher : Pan American Health Org
ISBN 13 : 9275115966
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Vaccines written by Ciro A. de Quadros and published by Pan American Health Org. This book was released on 2004 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains a number of papers which consider the public health role of vaccines in improving the health of the world's populations, and looks at the challenges of using immunisation to combat emerging and re-emerging diseases. Issues discussed include the innovative use of vaccines against diseases such as meningococcal infection in Africa, Haemophilus influenza type b, varicella, and hepatitis, efforts to develop a new generation of vaccines against cholera and typhoid, shigella and Helicobacter pylori, as well as developments in the quest for vaccines against tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, dengue, malaria, and hookworm. It also deals with the use of vaccines to fight bioterrorism attacks; regulatory and safety issues; financing issues, impact of health sector reform and the sustainability of immunisation programmes.

France

Author : International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1498359663
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book France written by International Monetary Fund. European Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2016 Article IV Consultation highlights that economic recovery in France is solidifying. The economy is projected to expand by 1.5 percent in 2016, primarily driven by strong consumer spending. There are also signs of a cyclical recovery in investment, and the slump in residential construction appears to be bottoming out. By contrast, net exports are declining as demand from trading partners has slowed. Private sector job creation has remained lackluster, and the unemployment rate has hovered at about 10 percent. The government has continued to advance important reforms to help create the conditions for improved economic performance. As for budget policies, there are ongoing efforts to contain spending growth at all levels of government while easing taxes.

The Business of Waste

Author : Raymond G. Stokes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107292425
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Business of Waste written by Raymond G. Stokes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of consumer societies in the United Kingdom and West Germany after 1945 led to the mass 'production' of garbage. This book compares the social, cultural and economic fallout of the growing volume and changing composition of waste in the two countries from 1945 to the present through sustained attention to changes in the business of handling household waste. Though the UK and Germany are similar in population density, degrees of urbanisation, and standardisation, the two countries took profoundly different paths from low-waste to throwaway societies, and more recently, towards the goal of 'zero-waste'. The authors explore evolving balances between public and private provision in waste services; the transformation of public cleansing into waste management; the role of government legislation and regulation; emerging conceptualisations of recycling and resource recovery; and the gradual shift of the industry's regulatory and business context from local to national and then to international.

The Fiscal Cost of Aging in Belgium

Author : Mr. Jean-Jacques Hallaert
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fiscal Cost of Aging in Belgium by : Mr. Jean-Jacques Hallaert

Download or read book The Fiscal Cost of Aging in Belgium written by Mr. Jean-Jacques Hallaert and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belgium faces a fiscal consolidation challenge at a time when the fiscal cost of aging—primarily related to pension and health outlays—is mounting. Pension spending will increase relatively fast unless a combination of measures related to pension generosity and retirement eligibility are put in place. Potential efficiency gains are large in the health sector and could absorb part of the fiscal and reorganization costs related to an aging population.

Belgium

Author : International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Belgium written by International Monetary Fund. European Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belgium: Selected Issues

The Spanish Welfare State in European Context

Author : Ana Marta Guillén
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317014979
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Welfare State in European Context written by Ana Marta Guillén and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the death of Franco, Spain underwent a transition to democracy in the mid-1970s. Although a rapid process of modernization occurred, the Spanish welfare state was seen, until fairly recently, as relatively underdeveloped. However, given the progressive Europeanization and expansion of Spanish social policy, questions arise as to whether the Spanish welfare system should still be considered as peripheral to West European welfare states. This volume is divided into three sections. The first section deals with broad trends in the evolution of the Spanish welfare state. To begin with, the consolidation path of social protection policies is explored. Attention is also paid to the process of Europeanization. Furthermore, the analysis explores advances in gender equality policies. In the second section, attention is turned to governance issues, such as collective bargaining, the interplay among levels of government, the welfare mix and public support for social policies. The third and final part of the book addresses five main challenges facing the Spanish welfare state in the 21st century, namely, the need to enhance flexicurity; to achieve a better work-family balance; to coordinate immigration policies with existing social protection; to tackle the persistence of high rates of relative poverty; and to face intense population ageing, both in terms of increasing needs for care and the reform of the pension system.

Towards a Medical Anthropology of Ageing

Author : Miguel Kottow
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527520005
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Towards a Medical Anthropology of Ageing written by Miguel Kottow and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proportion of people over 65 is substantially increasing and will continue to do so in the coming decades. Societies are concerned about the depletion of pension funds and austere fiscal plans that are unable to subsidize the basic care, protection and needs of their growing elderly populations. Gerontology is rapidly becoming a burgeoning research discipline that studies multiple aspects of human ageing, leading to top-down social policies that ineffectually address the significant needs of aged persons. Geriatric medicine has also expanded, attempting to medicalize the ageing process into a disease-free stage of “healthy ageing.” Ageing itself, this book argues, however, is not a disease per se, and should not be medicalized. In an era of uncertain medical expectations and unfulfilled social care of the ageing, this book presents an anthropological view, that focuses on three essential and transcendental conditions of human life that become vulnerable with advancing age: namely, relating to others, being in the world, and leaving a mark or legacy in the world.

The World Bank

Author : Devesh Kapur
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815720126
Total Pages : 1310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The World Bank written by Devesh Kapur and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This effort constitutes the most comprehensive and authoritative work to date on the history of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or the World Bank. Author-editors John Lewis, Richard Webb, and Devesh Kapur chronicle the evolution of this institution and offer insights into its successes, failures, and prospects for the future. The result of their intense labors is an invaluable resource for other researchers and a fascinating study in its own right. The work is divided into two volumes. The first is organized thematically and examines the critical events and policy issues in the World Bank's development over the last fifty years. Chapter topics include poverty alleviation, structural adjustment lending, environmental programs, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Development Association (IDA), and the evolution of the Bank as an institution. The second volume contains case studies written by experts with experience in the various regions in which the Bank operates. There are chapters on the Bank's activities in Korea, Mexico, Africa, South Asia, and Eastern Europe. Volume 2 also contains essays on the World Bank's relationship with the United States, Japan, and Western Europe, and its partnership with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). By special arrangement, the authors have had wide-ranging access to confidential documents at the World Bank, making this work a unique source of information on the internal workings of this critical institution. They have also drawn on extensive interviews with current and past Bank officials. Moreover, publication could not be more timely, coming as it does when many in the development community and in the U.S. Congress are questioning the Bank's track record and even its reason for existence. The World Bank: Its First Half Century will be of great interest not only to development practitioners but also to students of international relations, development economics, and global finance. During the course of the project, John P. Lewis and Richard Webb were nonresident senior fellows, and Devesh Kapur was a program associate, in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution.

Containing Health Care Costs in Japan

Author : Naoki Ikegami
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472024132
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Containing Health Care Costs in Japan written by Naoki Ikegami and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive picture of costs in Japan's effective and efficient health care system.

The New Politics of the Welfare State

Author : Paul Pierson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198297567
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The New Politics of the Welfare State written by Paul Pierson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The welfare states of the affluent democracies now stand at the centre of political discussion and social conflict. In this text, an international team of leading analysts reject simplistic claims about the impact of economic globalization.

Rationalizing Justice

Author : Wolf Heydebrand
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791402962
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Rationalizing Justice written by Wolf Heydebrand and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-09-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book connects the history and organization of the federal district courts to the emergence of a new technocratic form of justice. The centerpiece of this study is the clash between adjudication the traditional model of dispute resolution and the introduction of modern management techniques. From the perspective of the federal trial courts, the authors examine the tension between adjudication and administration. They show dramatic changes in the nature of judicial decision-making and the emergence of new forms of court organization. These changes signal a potential crisis of the judicial system, and Heydebrand and Seron provide insights into its nature and direction, and the immense structural forces underlying the administration of justice in America.

Styles of Organizing

Author : Gibson Burrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199671621
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Styles of Organizing written by Gibson Burrell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a provocative and challenging approach to the study of organizations by one of the UK's leading organization theorists, who uses various ideas and metaphors from economics, architecture, and design to move beyond the two-dimensionality of much organizational thinking to present more complex 3-D models.

Marx, Durkheim, Weber

Author : Ken Morrison
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761970568
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Marx, Durkheim, Weber written by Ken Morrison and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Second Edition is a thoroughly revised, expanded version of the bestselling student text in classical social theory. Author Kenneth Morrison provides an authoritative, accessible undergraduate guide to the three pivotal figures in the classical tradition. Readable and stimulating, the Second Edition of Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought explains the key ideas of these thinkers and situates them in their historical and philosophical contexts.

Sociology and the Future of Work

Author : Paul Ransome
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429795041
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Sociology and the Future of Work written by Paul Ransome and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this book adopts an explicitly forward-looking and dynamic approach in trying to understand not only where the sociology of work has come from but of where it is likely to go next. For the first time in a single volume, it reviews the continuing usefulness of the 'classical' accounts of Karl Marx, Max Webster and Emile Durkheim, the post-industrial accounts of the 1960s and 1970s and the post-Fordist accounts of the 1980s and 1990s. It provides specific treatment of key topics such as technological change and 'flexibility', the impact of gender on work, the changing nature of the relationship between work and personal identity and the possible emergence of economic globalization, all of which are currently receiving much academic and popular attention. The treatments of gender, identity and globalization are challenging and innovative in that they go beyond simply describing current debates, and question the validity of some of the premises on which they are based. For example, that it is not possible to provide a 'unifying' explanation of gender inequality at work because its causes are multiple rather than singular; that it is wrong to imply that work will cease to be an important basis of personal identity; and that evidence of economic globalization is far too patchy to justify the claim that we are living in a 'global economy.' The text combines theoretical analysis with clear descriptions of the key arguments and tests these against current empirical data.

Scientific and Technical Publication

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Scientific and Technical Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Changing Welfare States

Author : Anton Hemerijck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199607605
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Changing Welfare States written by Anton Hemerijck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform trajectories and political destinations in an era of rapid socioeconomic restructuring, including the critical impact of the global financial crisis on welfare state futures. The book argues that the overall scope of social reform across the member states of the European Union varies widely. In some cases welfare state change has been accompanied by deep social conflicts, while in other instances unpopular social reforms received broad consent from opposition parties, trade unions and employer organizations. The analysis reveals trajectories of welfare reform in many countries that are more proactive and reconstructive than is often argued in academic research and the media. Alongside retrenchments, there have been deliberate attempts - often given impetus by intensified European (economic) integration - to rebuild social programs and institutions and thereby accommodate welfare policy repertoires to the new economic and social realities of the 21st century. Welfare state change is work in progress, leading to patchwork mixes of old and new policies and institutions, on the lookout, perhaps, for greater coherence. Unsurprisingly, that search process remains incomplete, resulting from the institutionally bounded and contingent adaptation to the challenges of economic globalization, fiscal austerity, family and gender change, adverse demography, and changing political cleavages.