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The dynamics of disability: measuring and monitoring disability for social se…
by National Research Council (U.S.)., Committee on National Statistics, Wunderlich, Gooloo S., Rice, Dorothy P., Amado, Nicole L., Institute of Medicine (U.S.)., Committee to Review the Social Security Administration's Disability Decision Process Research
This report, originally developed for the Social Security Administration (SSA), analyzes the SSA's disability program, looks at recent and emerging disability trends, summarizes previous experience in researching disability, and makes recommendations on increasing the SSA's abil…
The dynamics of disability: measuring and monitoring disability for social se…
by National Research Council (U.S.)., Committee on National Statistics, Wunderlich, Gooloo S., Rice, Dorothy P., Amado, Nicole L., Institute of Medicine (U.S.)., Committee to Review the Social Security Administration's Disability Decision Process Research
"This review analyses public procurement policies and practices of ISSSTESON, the institution providing health and pension services to the workers of the State Government of Sonora, Mexico. It benchmarks ISSSTESON practices against the 2015 Recommendation of the Council on Publi…
This MDCR (Multi-Dimensional Country Review) is designed to help Panama formulate development strategies, and identify and support the policy reforms needed to achieve further sustainable and inclusive development. This review comes at a time when Panama is achieving high econom…
This report presents detailed, internationally comparable data on both tax and non-tax revenues for 26 African countries. Its approach is based on the methodology of the OECD Revenue Statistics database. Comparisons are made with the average for OECD economies and for the econom…
Indonesia has made impressive progress in reducing income inequality and improving living standards since the Asian Financial Crisis but the decline in poverty has slowed in recent years while inequality has risen and a large part of the population remains vulnerable. The Govern…
"The austerity crisis and threat to disability rights When public services are cut, disabled people are the hardest hit, and they number 3.7 million people in the UK. In Crippled, leading commentator Frances Ryan tells the story of those most affected by this devastating regime.…
The book will enhance understanding of the constraints and barriers that confine women to more poorly remunerated, more casual and more insecure forms of waged and self-employment, and of what this implies for women’s ability to provide for their families and cope with insecurit…
The vast majority of the world' s working women, particularly those from low-income households in developing countries, are located in the informal economy in activities that are casual, poorly paid, irregular and outside the remit of formal social security and protective legisl…
"This book examines the constraints that confine women located in the informal economy, particularly those from low-income households in developing countries, in activities that are casual, poorly paid, irregular and outside the remit of formal social security and protective leg…
"This book examines the constraints that confine women located in the informal economy, particularly those from low-income households in developing countries, in activities that are casual, poorly paid, irregular and outside the remit of formal social security and protective leg…