...Tita Anthanasius Fomum; Aziakpono Meshach Jesse Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the feasibility of asset-building social welfare in South Africa using the FinScope (2014) consumer survey data set. This is achieved using quantile regression technique to examine how financial...

... of charge (r=0.272; p<0.001) (Table I). Social welfare Transition Welfare state Public opinion Communism Decommodification During the present period of economic uncertainty and turbulence, the question of the welfare state has taken on increased importance. The issue...

...-individually comparable. The weighting of the relevant life domains is deemed a crucial but very difficult issue by many authors. Social welfare Well-being Welfare policy Italian living conditions Quality-of-life index Temporal comparisons This paper aims to examine the QoL levels...

..., 2011). Social welfare Poverty Welfare economics Deprivation Social economy Distributive justice The multi-dimensional nature of poverty has made its measurement diverse and subjective. One takes into account a computation of poverty line for each household, adjusting it from household...

... implications Part-time farming may be a lifestyle decision, but apparently is not economically optimal for most farms. Originality/value The contribution solves an apparent contradiction between the discourses inside and outside agriculture. Social welfare Labour Agricultural economies In his...

... Social policy Social welfare Economic philosophy/theory The link between the development of the financial sector, a country’s economic growth and the achievement of millennium development goals (MDGs) is an under-studied topic. This is quite surprising as achieving MDGs of eradicating extreme...

...D.P. Doessel; Ruth F. Williams Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an exposition of the concepts relevant to measuring the economic effect of premature mortality and the conception of how the social loss from premature mortality can be incorporated into social welfare measurement...

... and early old age increases advantageous social network contacts. Originality/value – This research challenges some previous research that suggested employment in old age might reduce social network activity. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Ageing Social welfare In recent...

... on the vehicle fleet, etc.) [4] . If possible, data were given for the year 2008. Otherwise data were discounted to EUR 2008 so that all effects are expressed in the same monetary unit. Tom van Lier can be contacted at: tom.van.lier@vub.ac.be © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Social...

... Social welfare Well-being Social justice Human capabilities Liberty Republicanism Arguably, the possession of subjugating powers is so undesirable that the subjugator's loss of well-being is a reasonable penalty for the injustice that she perpetrated previously. Neo-republicans do not see...

... 2013 Ageing Social policy Social welfare Demographic change presents a challenge to all European countries, in differing degrees. A principal aspect of this demographic change is ageing of the population, which affects all of a society's (sub) systems, from social welfare to family...

... the conventional ordinal rankings of the welfare of the countries based on non‐income indicators and the SOM. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Countries Social welfare National economy Self organizing maps Clustering Welfare analysis As it is reported by United Nations (2005) Asia...

...Hsiao‐Chien Tsui; Tzung‐Ming Wang Purpose If a society does not identify with purchase of illegal goods, consumers will undertake more psychological burden when buying the goods. The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of social norm of anti‐piracy on social welfare. Design...

... heavily subsidized. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Poverty Social welfare Armenia Azerbaijan Georgia A dramatic increase in income inequality and social stratification has been one of the most important characteristics of transitions from centrally planned economies...

...Cristina Neesham; Ileana Tache Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the recent social welfare performance of old and new members of the European Union, and to establish whether a specific East‐European social model (ESM) is emerging. Design/methodology/approach The concept of social...

.../shelter requirements normally referred to as the poverty line. Based on this line, individuals with mean per capita income (or expenditure) below the line are classified as poor. Poverty Equal opportunities Social welfare Ghana Kofi A. Osei can be contacted at: kaosei@ug.edu.gh © Emerald...

... variables, something unusual occurs. While both variables are statistically significant, HDI, from the perspective of being a measure of social welfare, has the wrong sign. Instead of a positive sign, it has a negative sign. Economists have long ago shown that a gift in kind is inferior to a gift...

... then there is a case for policy intervention as we have illustrated above. That is, specific legislation and/or tax incentives need to target altruistic pursuits that explicitly involve direct engagement. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Economic policy Altruism Social welfare Social benefits...

... of these explanatory variables. Social welfare Unemployment United States of America Social economics Government policy In 1996, US Congress passed the Welfare Reform Act and replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF...

... Economic processes Social welfare Ethics An exchange‐based society is distinguished from other kinds of societies by the wide dispersion of its day‐to‐day decisions among its members and components. This dispersion of its societal decider sub‐system is accomplished through economic exchange...