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"Social Classes"
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Nov 2011
Maintaining and Improving Social Security for Poorly Compensated Workers
Author: Shawn Fremstad
Publisher:
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
This report examines the role that social security plays in bolstering the retirement security of poorly compensated workers.
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Nov 2011
Advancing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Author: Allen Moore, Sarah Kornblet, Mohammad Kamali, Janet E Lord, Michael Ashley Stein, Ali Saberi, Allison deFranco, Hengameh Saberi, Ari Ne’eman, Soheil Moeini, Michael E Waterstone, Michael Ashley Stein
Publisher:
Henry L Stimson Center
This book is the result of a Stimson Center project focusing on how the US and Iran should best implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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Nov 2011
Where is the Virtue in the Middle Class?
Author: Charles Kenny
Publisher:
Center for Global Development (CGD)
This paper discusses the agreement among economists and political scientists that the middle class is vital to prospects for stability and economic growth.
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May 2010
March 2010
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23 Mar 2010
Migraciones internacionales: las consecuencias de gobernar el siglo XXI con políticas del XIX
Author: Gonzalo Fanjul
Publisher:
Elcano Royal Institute of International and Strategic Studies
El régimen migratorio global, basado en la aplicación unilateral de políticas restrictivas por parte de los países de destino, no sólo es inmoral sino también insensato porque multiplica los riesgos del proceso y limita los beneficios que podri...
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Mar 2010
The (Indispensable) Middle Class in Developing Countries; or, The Rich and the Rest, Not the Poor and the Rest
Author: Nancy Birdsall
Publisher:
Center for Global Development (CGD)
Inclusive growth is widely embraced as the central economic goal for developing countries, but the concept is not well defined in the development economics literature.
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Mar 2010
Institutions Collide: A Study of "Caste-Based" Collective Criminality and Female Infanticide in India, 1789-1871
Author: Maria Brun
Publisher:
LSE Department of International Development (ID)
Nicholas Dirks in his book "Castes of Mind", challenges the modern view of caste as universal and hierarchical.
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February 2010