Thursday, September 9, 2021
Conventional wisdom tends to run towards giving it to the woman. But a recent paper (ungated) by Laurens Cherchye, Pierre-Andre Chiappori, Bram De Rock, Charlotte Ringdal and Frederic Vermeulen tells us it might not matter (at least in terms of nutrition...
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Global, Africa, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Europe, North Macedonia
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Monday, June 28, 2021
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Millions of laborers in the six states of the Western Balkans work in the informal economy without contracts...
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Europe, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020
North Macedonia's government said on Wednesday it will grant interest-free loans to small businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic and pay social contributions for employees in the worst-hit sectors of the economy for three months....
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Let us imagine that, after his retirement from active political life in 1890, Otto von Bismarck would have spent the last one hundred and thirty years lecturing and researching on social policy across the world. Most recently, he worked as an unpaid...
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Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Europe
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
Denar 10.2 billion more is projected in 2019 Budget, allocated for health, education and social protection More funds have been allocated this year as well, in relation to 2017, for this purpose.
The Minister of Finance, Dragan Tevdovski underlined...
Friday, September 14, 2018
The World Bank has approved a 33.4 million US dollar loan to help advance social protection and early childhood education and care (ECEC) systems in Macedonia. The Social Services Improvement Project will help address the challenges that are...