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Social Expenditure in Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic at a Glance

2007-2013

By: Marco Solera,Esteban Durán,Jordi Prat,Víctor Dumas,Mariano Lafuente,Martín Ardanaz,Priscilla Gutiérrez Juárez,Jorge Vargas Cullell,Javier Beverinotti

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Social Expenditure in Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic at a Glance

2007-2013

By: Marco Solera,Esteban Durán,Jordi Prat,Víctor Dumas,Mariano Lafuente,Martín Ardanaz,Priscilla Gutiérrez Juárez,Jorge Vargas Cullell,Javier Beverinotti

Social spending is a powerful tool to reduce poverty, achieve higher equality and better life conditions for the inhabitants of a country. In "Social Expenditure in Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic: 2007-2013", a characterization of the different variables that have taken social expenditure to its current position is performed. During the economic crisis period, many governments of the region confront this situation with an increase in social expenditures. However, part of the increase was centered on inflexible items, particularly wages, which facilitated the increase in fiscal deficits and, consequently, on public debt. Thus, after the financial crisis, the fiscal situation has reduced governments' buffers to respond to economic shocks, which imply that we need to examine the fiscal policy given its rigidity, the scarcity of public resources and the institutional contract. The study of wage bill increases provides more information related to the causes of this dynamic, and allow us to offer recommendations to improve spending management without threatening public finances. A better use of resources could contribute to define a more efficient and equitable agenda for the countries in the region. Finally, something that was not deeply explored, as of today, is the institutional complexity and how this could facilitate, or hinder, the government's ability to express its fiscal policy, including the effectiveness in the use of public resources.

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Inter-American Development Bank

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1597822515

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Opera

A Research and Information Guide

By: Guy A. Marco

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Opera

A Research and Information Guide

By: Guy A. Marco

Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.

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655

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Routledge

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113557801X

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Town Planning Glossary

10,000 Multilingual Terms in One Alphabet for European Town Planners

By: Marco Venturi

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Town Planning Glossary

10,000 Multilingual Terms in One Alphabet for European Town Planners

By: Marco Venturi

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292

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110971852

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Group and Crowd Behavior for Computer Vision

By: Vittorio Murino,Marco Cristani,Shishir Shah,Silvio Savarese

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Group and Crowd Behavior for Computer Vision

By: Vittorio Murino,Marco Cristani,Shishir Shah,Silvio Savarese

Group and Crowd Behavior for Computer Vision provides a multidisciplinary perspective on how to solve the problem of group and crowd analysis and modeling, combining insights from the social sciences with technological ideas in computer vision and pattern recognition. The book answers many unresolved issues in group and crowd behavior, with Part One providing an introduction to the problems of analyzing groups and crowds that stresses that they should not be considered as completely diverse entities, but as an aggregation of people. Part Two focuses on features and representations with the aim of recognizing the presence of groups and crowds in image and video data. It discusses low level processing methods to individuate when and where a group or crowd is placed in the scene, spanning from the use of people detectors toward more ad-hoc strategies to individuate group and crowd formations. Part Three discusses methods for analyzing the behavior of groups and the crowd once they have been detected, showing how to extract semantic information, predicting/tracking the movement of a group, the formation or disaggregation of a group/crowd and the identification of different kinds of groups/crowds depending on their behavior. The final section focuses on identifying and promoting datasets for group/crowd analysis and modeling, presenting and discussing metrics for evaluating the pros and cons of the various models and methods. This book gives computer vision researcher techniques for segmentation and grouping, tracking and reasoning for solving group and crowd modeling and analysis, as well as more general problems in computer vision and machine learning. - Presents the first book to cover the topic of modeling and analysis of groups in computer vision - Discusses the topics of group and crowd modeling from a cross-disciplinary perspective, using social science anthropological theories translated into computer vision algorithms - Focuses on group and crowd analysis metrics - Discusses real industrial systems dealing with the problem of analyzing groups and crowds

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Academic Press

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0128092807

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Italy Before Italy

Institutions, Conflicts and Political Hopes in the Italian States, 1815-1860

By: Marco Soresina

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Italy Before Italy

Institutions, Conflicts and Political Hopes in the Italian States, 1815-1860

By: Marco Soresina

Italian unification is one of the pivotal events in European history but the period leading up to Risorgimento has often been analysed in less detail. This book focuses on the history of the Italian states between 1815 and 1860 focusing on state institutions, international relations, economic and fiscal policies, living conditions and culture.

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1351345621

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Trying to Measure Globalization

Experiences, critical issues and perspectives

By: Marco Caselli

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Trying to Measure Globalization

Experiences, critical issues and perspectives

By: Marco Caselli

The aim of this book is to conduct a critical survey of the main tools devised for the synthetic measurement of globalization processes. To this end, the first part of the book discusses the meaning of the concept considered, highlighting the different and often contradictory interpretations put forward in its regard in the literature. Subsequently analysed are the passages and issues that must be addressed when constructing an instrument intended to measure a social phenomenon of such complexity as globalization. Stressed in particular is that the researcher’s subjectivity is repeatedly involved in these passages, so that no instrument can have objective validity. Given these premises, the book presents the principal tools employed in attempts to measure globalization, starting with those whose unit of analysis is the state. In this regard, particular space is devoted to indexes which take a multidimensional approach to the concept of globalization. There follows a comparison among the results obtained using these indexes, and criticisms are made of the ways in which the latter have been constructed. A limitation, or if one wishes a paradox, concerning such tools is that they measure in relation to states a process which has as one of its principal features the fact that it extends beyond the confines of states. For this reason, the final chapter considers whether globalization can be measured with different units of analysis – in particular people and cities. The books concludes with discussion of the general limitations of globalization indexes.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400728077

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Social Expenditure in Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic at a Glance

2007-2013

By: Marco Solera,Esteban Durán,Jordi Prat,Víctor Dumas,Mariano Lafuente,Martín Ardanaz,Priscilla Gutiérrez Juárez,Jorge Vargas Cullell,Javier Beverinotti

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Social Expenditure in Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic at a Glance

2007-2013

By: Marco Solera,Esteban Durán,Jordi Prat,Víctor Dumas,Mariano Lafuente,Martín Ardanaz,Priscilla Gutiérrez Juárez,Jorge Vargas Cullell,Javier Beverinotti

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Social Expenditure in Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic at a Glance

Social Expenditure in Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic at a Glance

Opera

Opera

Town Planning Glossary

Town Planning Glossary

Group and Crowd Behavior for Computer Vision

Group and Crowd Behavior for Computer Vision

Italy Before Italy

Italy Before Italy

Trying to Measure Globalization

Trying to Measure Globalization

Social Expenditure in Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic at a Glance

Social Expenditure in Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic at a Glance

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