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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Social Spending"”.
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The happy median? : an examination of the role of partisanship on social spending
… the effect of party-level partisanship on social spending outcomes. Building a model in which party-politician bargaining plays a central role in determining the passage of bills, this paper develops a theory predicting the superior performance of moderate parties in proposing and passing …
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The nexus between social spending and economic growth in South Africa: a cointegration approach
… Keynesian theory which proposes that government spending stimulates economic growth. Several empirical studies testing the Keynesian proposition are generally affirmative but these studies do not tell us how disaggregated and particular components of government spending affect economic growth. …
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Do Globalization and China’s WTO Accession Affect Social Spending in Its Eleven Neighboring Countries? An Empirical Study of the China Shock
… have any impact on government expenditure to social security transfers and human capital of its eleven neighboring countries--Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. These countries have enjoyed economic growth from …
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Financial development, economic growth and income inequality: a panel data approach
… tax, as advocated by Piketty (2014) to subsidise social spending, is critical in order to address the disparities caused by financial development.
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Democratization and the development of Japan's uneven welfare state
… institutions, deep pockets, and a sizable social welfare system provide so little public assistance to the poor? I identify two features of Japan's political and economic development that gave rise to a distinctively threadbare safety net. First, the country's late-developer status paired …
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Essays in public policy and social outcomes in Brazil
… and less educated voters, also impacted public spending. Connecting all three essays is the fact that they all relate to Brazil and analyze the impact of public policies. Below are the title and individual abstracts for each of the three essays. Chapter 1: Crime and political effects of a …
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The Civil War Pension System and the Nineteenth-Century American State
… War pension system was the most comprehensive social policy in the nineteenth-century United States, and one of the most ambitious in the industrializing world. By the time the Civil War closed in April 1865, the U.S. Army had mustered more than two million men. Nearly four hundred thousand of …
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Explaining changes in post-apartheid income and earnings inequality
… need to re-examine the efficiency of current social spending and labour laws in order to set the right growth path for the South African economy. The methods utilized throughout this thesis harmonise different sources of information and enable an integrated analysis of the dynamics of the …