religion values and the welfare state in greece

... to the tax on consumption and succeeded in reducing public spending and budget deficits. In Australia, the proposals to introduce the VAT were thwarted twice in the mid-1980s and again in the ... between the Canadian and the Japanese cases and its neighbor, New Zealand. In Australia, the tax rate and the revenue-raising power of the VAT are higher than in Canada and Japan and lower than in ... Here, increasing the reliance on regressive taxation does not serve to expand the welfare state, again, unlike the European cases. The consequences of the introduction of the VAT in Japan and Canada are...

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... contingencies and complicated interactions simultaneously caused the development of the welfare state and the construction of the tax state. 5 Welfare state development went hand in hand with the ... reducing public spending and budget deficits. In Australia, the proposals to introduce the VAT were thwarted twice in the mid-1980s and again in the early 1990s. The introduction of the VAT in 2000 ... Canada, Austria, and Finland 8 More specifically, the classifications are (1) social democratic welfare states, such as Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden, based on the principle of universalism...

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Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20

... support the quality of life themes relevant to women’s health and well-being. 2. Defining the welfare state The welfare state is “ a capitalist society in which the state has intervened in the form ... of the forces that drive the weakening of social infrastructure along the lines seen in the UK and US and to a lesser extent in Canada. 9.1. Decline of the welfare state Teeple [11] sees increasing ... bases in the US—actively apply their increasing power to oppose reforms associated with the welfare state to reduce labour costs. The forces that led to the development of the welfare state at the...

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... distortion becoming stable. Furthermore, the exchange coupling between Mn 3+ and Mn 4+ ions depends on the type of e g orbital occupied at the Mn 3+ site, leading to the following charge/orbital ... along the a-axis, the same in- plane arrangement of Mn 3+ and Mn 4+ is stacked and the neighboured planes are antiferromagnetically coupled via super-exchange interaction. On the other hand, ... positions in the phase diagram of La 1-x Ca x MnO 3- δ system due to their interesting properties and charge-ordering phase transition. The samples were prepared by a solid -state reaction method. The...

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... authoritative in the Middle Ages called their authority into question. When combined with the propaganda poten- tial of the printing press to disseminate such findings, printing became a major force behind ... of books, including one on the concept of Fatherland in the Netherlands from early modern times till World War II and one on Dutch lieux- de-m´emoire. Introduction  (as developed by Gutenberg in the ... England and Germany in the Late Eighteenth Century () and Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth- Century State in Britain and Germany (), with John Brewer.   works in Brussels,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:58

... out their general meanings and meanings in some idioms respectively, the synonyms of each verbs are also discussed. Then the findings are reached with the statements on the similarities and ... in terms of MiCA and MaCA in details. Therefore, within this study, the author focuses on analyzing and contrasting them in terms of MiCA (concerning grammatical and semantic features of the ... morphological features. Furthermore, ‘run’ and ‘chạy’ coincide in their general meanings and meanings in some idioms. Interestingly, ‘run’ is richer in meanings, consequently richer in synonyms than...

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... at random. Then the data are analyzed and systematized to work out a fresh insight into the meanings expressed by can, may, must and their equivalents in Vietnamese. 5. Design of the study The ... problems in understanding the texts, and especially in interpreting the writer’s opinion and attitude expressed by such typical modals as can, may, must. With all these reasons, I made up my mind ... by the subject of the sentence by the speaker (or by some other agents). In the epistemic world, the must in the same sentence could be read as a logical necessity according to the reasoning...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 00:23

... both in the mode l and in the data. Mo reove r, price ratios are disproportionately lo wer for short-term debt when short spreads are high both in the model and in the data. 17 The distinct dynam ... time-varying differences i n the prices, and in the liquidity and insurance benefits o f these two assets, which rationalize the mo vements in s pread curv es and maturity composition observed in t ... v c (b S ,b L ,y) is the value associa ted with not defaulting and sta yin g in the contra ct and v d (y) is the value associated with default. Since we assume that default costs are incurred w henever the borro...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 02:20

... for the young, the old and for other dependent, vulnerable adults. In the 1980s, New Right governments began to talk about the state doing less and the family, together with the market and the ... on the role of the state and to stress the eventual triumph of collectivism over individualism (p. 10). Titles such as The Coming of the Welfare State or The Evolution of the British Welfare State ... recruitment from the outset 30 and the advent of high unemployment in coal mining, iron- founding, engineering and shipbuilding all generated financial difficulties. As the inter-war recession...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 11:20

... bond, and the BEIR calculated from these two yields. Table 1 shows the sample means and measures of the variability of the nominal and real yields and the BEIR. The drop in the mean and variability ... declining, suggests that the inflation-risk premium was rising. Campbell and Shiller (1996) use a capital- asset-pricing model to estimate the inflation-risk premium in the United States and find ... a nominal bond, we obtain a nominal ytm. In the case of the RRB, we use the market price and the real coupon rate to obtain a real ytm. In the absence of distortions, the spread between the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... supporting investments, creating networks linking public and private actors and devising future strategies for the bio-industries (including cross- sectoral interaction). The state was instrumental ... instrumental in expanding a previously relatively weak public research system, in bringing into existence a venture capital sector, and in ‘correcting’ the fragmentation of the business system. The main ... emerging in Finland and in Australia is the lack of resource coordination and discursive harmonisation between the different actors in the innovation system – due to the lack of acknowledged state- industry...

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... official accounting standards, the EU provided a clear and distinct alternative to US GAAP for international firms and investors. It also reinforced the IASB’s role as the focal point for the convergence ... so that they do not have to incur the cost of familiarizing themselves with financial reporting standards used in other countries or of translating financial results from one set of standards ... standards for financial reporting, then they spend less time and money on analyzing and comparing companies’ financial statements. This translates into a lower cost of capital demanded by investors....

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... 2003 Role of the hinge peptide and the intersubunit interface in the swapping of N-termini in dimeric bovine seminal RNase Carmine Ercole 1 , Francesca Avitabile 1 , Pompea Del Vecchio 1 , Orlando Crescenzi 1 , ... into an apparent molar heat capacity taking into account the instrument calibration curve and the buffer–buffer scanning curve, and by dividing each data point by the scan rate and the protein ... located in regions different from the hinge loop 16–22. In the search for the region primarily involved in the swapping, we focused our attention on the interface between the subunits. In a previous...

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