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Toward a New Social Contract

Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia

By: Maurizio Bussolo,Maria Eugenia Davalos,Vito Peragine,Ramya Sundaram

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Toward a New Social Contract

Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia

By: Maurizio Bussolo,Maria Eugenia Davalos,Vito Peragine,Ramya Sundaram

The growing economic fissures in the societies of Europe and Central Asia between generations, between insiders and outsiders in the labor market, between rural and urban communities, and between the super-rich and everyone else, are threatening the sustainability of the social contract. The institutions that helped achieving a remarkable degree of equity and prosperity over the course of several decades now face considerable difficulties in coping with the challenges presented by these emerging forms of inequality. Public surveys reveal rising concerns over inequality of opportunity, while electoral results show a marked shift to populist parties that offer radical solutions to voters dissatisfied with the status quo. There is no single solution to relieve these tensions, and attempts to address them will vary considerably across the region. However, this publication proposes three broad policy principles: (1) promote labor market flexibility while maintaining protection for all types of labor contracts; (2) seek universality in the provision of social assistance, social insurance, and basic quality services; and (3) expand the tax base by complementing progressive labor-income taxation with taxation of capital. These principles could guide the rethinking of the social contract and fulfil European citizens’ aspirations for growth and equity.

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146481354X

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Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Some Insights from the 2006 Life in Transition Survey

By: Salman Zaidi,Asad Alam,Pradeep K. Mitra,Ramya Sundaram

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Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Some Insights from the 2006 Life in Transition Survey

By: Salman Zaidi,Asad Alam,Pradeep K. Mitra,Ramya Sundaram

The past two decades in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have been times of tremendous change, with countries undergoing rapid transformation from centrally-planned to market-oriented economies. While poverty increased during the initial years of transition, primarily on account of the sharp economic contraction, the resurgence of economic growth in the region since 1998 has resulted in a rebound in household incomes and living standards. Data from the 2006 Life in Transition Survey (LiTS) a joint initiative of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank provides a unique opportunity to investigate the extent to which citizens of ECA countries are satisfied with their lives and with the performances of their governments, and to study key factors influencing their outlook in a systematic way across all countries of the region. The main objective of the LiTS was to assess the impact of transition on people, covering four main themes. First, it collected personal information on aspects of material well-being, including household expenditures, possession of consumer goods such as a car or mobile phone, and access to local public services and utilities. Second, the survey included measures of satisfaction and attitudes towards economic and political reforms as well as public service delivery. Third, the LiTS captured individual 'histories' key events and episodes that may have influenced their attitudes towards reforms, and information on family background, employment, and coping strategies. Finally, the survey also attempted to capture the extent to which crime and corruption are affecting peoples' lives, and the extent to which individuals' trust in other people and in state institutions has changed over time.

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World Bank Publications

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0821379011

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9780821379011

Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion

By: Ramya Sundaram,Ulrich Hoerning,Natasha de Andrade FalcÃ£o,Natalia MillÃ¡n,Carla Tokman,Michele Zini

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Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion

By: Ramya Sundaram,Ulrich Hoerning,Natasha de Andrade FalcÃ£o,Natalia MillÃ¡n,Carla Tokman,Michele Zini

Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion presents "profiles" or "portraits" of individuals who have limited labor-market attachment. It is widely accepted that those with limited attachment to the labor market are a highly heterogeneous group (including, for instance, recent job losers, long-term unemployed, school leavers with no labor-market experience, those close to retirement age, or people with caring responsibilities), and that understanding their circumstances and potential barriers is an essential prerequisite for designing and implementing a tailored and effective mix of policy support and incentives. The report takes a comprehensive view, focusing on both the labor market attachment of a country's out-of-work population and the social assistance package and poverty profile of the same segment of the population. In essence, the report looks at individuals through the lenses of both poverty/welfare status and labor market indicators, and, in doing so, the portraits helps move the dialogue from a purely labor market-centric view to a broader dialogue that includes social policy as a whole. This is an important shift; for instance, social protection programs, such as family benefits and maternity benefits, and broader social policy issues such as retirement ages, often have a great impact on who remains inactive. Specifically, the report presents portraits of the out-of-work population of six countries (Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania and Romania) in terms of distance from the labor market, human capital, and labor supply conditions, as well as demographic conditions. The analysis relies on the European Union Statistics of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) surveys for the years 2007 to 2011. Latent class analysis methodology allows multidimensional profiling of the out-of-work population, and identifies classes or groups of out-of-work individuals that are as homogeneous as possible within each class according to a set of observable characteristics, and as distant as possible between classes. Consequently, this analysis provide a much richer glimpse of the very different barriers to labor market integration that these various groups experience, considerably augmenting the limited amount of information contained in traditional descriptive statistics.

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1464805423

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9781464805424

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT - THEORY AND PRACTICE

By: Dr.S.Saikrishnan,Dr.S.S.Ramya,Mr.S.Kamalakannan, Dr.S.Sumathi

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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT - THEORY AND PRACTICE

By: Dr.S.Saikrishnan,Dr.S.S.Ramya,Mr.S.Kamalakannan, Dr.S.Sumathi

Dr.S.Saikrishnan, Associate Professor, Department of Commerce, PSG College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Dr.S.S.Ramya, Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce, PSG College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Mr.S.Kamalakannan, Assistant Professor, Department of Corporate Secretaryship, PSG College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Dr.S.Sumathi, Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce, PSG College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

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SK Research Group of Companies

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9395341513

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9789395341516

Toward a New Social Contract

Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia

By: Maurizio Bussolo,Maria Eugenia Davalos,Vito Peragine,Ramya Sundaram

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Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia

By: Maurizio Bussolo,Maria Eugenia Davalos,Vito Peragine,Ramya Sundaram

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Toward a New Social Contract

Toward a New Social Contract

Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion

Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT - THEORY AND PRACTICE

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT - THEORY AND PRACTICE

Toward a New Social Contract

Toward a New Social Contract

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