Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2011-11-18
Category :
ISBN : 9264113150
This report analyses the impact of “Shifting wealth” on social cohesion, largely focusing on high-growth converging countries.
Author : Mattia Casula
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030369986
This book concerns EU Cohesion Policy and the economic convergence of underdeveloped regions in Italy and Spain from the first programming period to the present: it investigates the political and institutional factors that determine the success or failure of implementing EU Cohesion Policy at national and sub-national level, as well as their impact on economic growth. On the wave of the American tradition of development studies, this book suggests that public policy analysis can be fruitful for understanding economic growth and cohesion, if it were to reconstruct domestic public interventions for development and the institutional characteristics of the subjects responsible for pursuing development goals. To do so, this book derives its theoretical foundations from the traditional debate on the role of state actors in promoting economic development and on the institutional characteristics that the public authorities involved in the process of economic development should display. More precisely, by adopting an Hirschmanian approach to development, it elaborates an original framework to compare different Cohesion Policy implementations and to understand its economic results in different countries, using Italy and Spain as pilot studies.
Author : J. M. M. Ritzen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Administracion publica
ISBN :
One of the primary reasons that otherwise good politicians enact bad policies in countries all over the world, but especially in low-income countries, is that they face significant constraints in their efforts to bring about reform. These constraints, the "room for maneuver", are shaped by the degree of social cohesion in a country and the quality of its institution.
Author : John Bachtler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315401843
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional and national level policymakers in order to assess the performance and direction of EU Cohesion policy against the background of the most significant reforms to the policy in a generation. Responding to past criticisms of the effectiveness of the policy, the policy changes introduced in 2013 have aligned European Structural and Investment Funds with the Europe 2020 strategy and introduced measures to improve strategic coherence, performance and integrated development. EU Cohesion Policy: Reassessing performance and direction argues that policy can only be successfully developed and implemented if there is input from both academics and practitioners. The chapters in the book address four important issues: the effectiveness and impact of Cohesion policy at European, national and regional levels; the contribution of Cohesion policy to the Europe 2020 strategy of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; the importance of quality of government and administrative capacity for the effective management of the Funds; and the inter-relationships between institutions, territory and place-based policies. The volume will be an invaluable resource to students, academics and policymakers across economics, regional studies, European studies and international relations.
Author : Lisa F. Berkman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 2000-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195083316
This book shows the important links between social conditions and health and begins to describe the processes through which these health inequalities may be generated. It reviews a range of methodologies that could be used by health researchers in this field and proposes innovative future research directions.
Author : Jane Jenson
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849290234
Examines the literature on social cohesion. Presentsa range of indicators that have been used to measure social cohesion.
Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789287157423
This publication contains guidance on developing a methodological framework for social cohesion indicators which can be applied at local, regional, national and European levels, covering the conceptual approach used and its practical application. It sets out the results of the main applications and trials carried out in 2003 and 2004 and how they tie in with devising a framework of action.
Author : Alex C. Michalos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 7347 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 2014-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400707528
The aim of this encyclopedia is to provide a comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life, including health-related quality of life research or also called patient-reported outcomes research. Since the 1960s two overlapping but fairly distinct research communities and traditions have developed concerning ideas about the quality of life, individually and collectively, one with a fairly narrow focus on health-related issues and one with a quite broad focus. In many ways, the central issues of these fields have roots extending to the observations and speculations of ancient philosophers, creating a continuous exploration by diverse explorers in diverse historic and cultural circumstances over several centuries of the qualities of human existence. What we have not had so far is a single, multidimensional reference work connecting the most salient and important contributions to the relevant fields. Entries are organized alphabetically and cover basic concepts, relatively well established facts, lawlike and causal relations, theories, methods, standardized tests, biographic entries on significant figures, organizational profiles, indicators and indexes of qualities of individuals and of communities of diverse sizes, including rural areas, towns, cities, counties, provinces, states, regions, countries and groups of countries.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 2018-11-29
Category :
ISBN : 9264307931
In 2008, the weight of developing and emerging economies in the global economy tipped over the 50% mark for the first time. Since then, Perspectives on Global Development has been tracking the shift in global wealth and its impact on developing countries. How much longer can the dividends of ...
Author : Ichiro Kawachi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0387713107
As interest in social capital has grown over the past decade—particularly in public health —so has the lack of consensus on exactly what it is and what makes it worth studying. Ichiro Kawachi, a widely respected leader in the field, and 21 contributors (including physicians, economists, and public health experts) discuss the theoretical origins of social capital, the strengths and limitations of current methodologies of measuring it, and salient examples of social capital concepts informing public health practice. Among the highlights: Measurement methods: survey, sociometric, ethnographic, experimental The relationship between social capital and physical health and health behaviors: smoking, substance abuse, physical activity, sexual activity Social capital and mental health: early findings Social capital and the aging community Social capital and disaster preparedness Social Capital and Health is certain to inspire a new generation of research on this topic, and will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in public health, health behavior, and social epidemiology.
