...Avia Spivak Examines the options for a pension system in Israel in comparison with other pension systems in developed countries. A basic actuarial model is calculated for the evaluation of the feasible funded pensions. For reasonably conservative rates of return and contribution rates a funded...

... that neither doctrine presents a viable model of social organization. © MCB UP Limited 1994 the ultimate value … is the organism’s life. An ultimate value is that final goal or end to which all lesser goals are the means ‐ and it sets the standard by which all lesser goals...

...Ki R. Shim Aims to find an appropriate economic model for the reunification question. Perhaps the most important economic issue is what model is to be applied in integrating the two Koreas into a single, viable and eventually highly‐competitive economy. Because of the dissimilarities between...

...Lewis E. Hill; István Magas Attempts to specify and to explicate some of the most important reasons for the failure of communism or state socialism. Analyses the general case of Eastern Europe, then applies the analysis to the specific case of Hungary. Second, deduces a model of market socialism...

...Abu F. Dowlah The Soviet experiment on socialism provides several distinguishable politico‐economic models. Employing dialectical methodology, examines the political economy of War Communism (1917‐21) as an exemplar of the“Socialist Command Model”. Explores the economic, political and social forces...

... than $10,000 and most were living at the poverty threshold in 1989. Concern about poverty among the aged is addressed from two perspectives. First, changes in the magnitude, characteristics and incidence of poverty among the aged population are reviewed. Secondly, analytical models of the severity...