1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910975185703321

Autore

Baum Tinatin

Titolo

Continuous Improvement : : Strengthening Georgia's Targeted Social Assistance Program / / Tinatin Baum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , 2016

ISBN

9781464809019

1464809011

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 pages)

Collana

Directions in Development;Directions in Development - Human Development

Disciplina

368.4300973

Soggetti

Social security - United States

Georgia (Republic)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Executive Summary; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Objective; The Targeted Social Assistance Program circa 2013; The Reform in a Nutshell; Summary; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Data and Definitions; Introduction; Data; Definitions; Summary; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Revision of the PMT Formula; Introduction; Estimation of the New PMT Formula; Summary; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Revision of the Needs Index; Introduction; Calculation of the Caloric Needs; Calculation of the Noncaloric Needs; Summary; Notes; References

Chapter 5 The New Scheme of TSA Benefits and the Child Benefit ProgramIntroduction; Fiscal Implications; Summary; Note; References; Chapter 6 Winners and Losers of the TSA Program; Introduction; Change in the Structure of Benefits of the TSA; Winners and Losers in Terms of Social Categories; Winners and Losers in Terms of Demographic Characteristics; Examining Potentially Overlapping Effects; Summary; Notes; References; Chapter 7 Winners from the CBP; Introduction; Who's Winning from the Child Benefit Program; Summary; Reference; Chapter 8 From Theory to Practice: Pretesting; Introduction

Results from PretestingSummary; Note; Reference; Chapter 9 Compensation Measures; Introduction; Winners and Losers After Compensation Measures; Summary; Notes; References; Chapter 10



Toward a Comprehensive and Efficient System of Social Protection and Labor; Introduction; Implementation of the Reform; The Way Forward; Notes; References; Appendix A Data; References; Appendix B Subcomponents of the Needs Index; Reference; Appendix C Glossary; Boxes; Box ES.1 Elements of the TSA Reform and Introduction of the CBP; Box ES.2 Main Technical Features of the TSA's PMT

Sommario/riassunto

Targeted Social Assistance of Georgia is a last-resort social program that is considered a best practice among programs based on proxy means testing (PMT). It achieves high targeting accuracy for a relatively high level of poverty incidence. In 2013, the government of Georgia embarked on the revision of this program to ensure its continued effectiveness and to revise some of the parameters of the eligibility formula that could be subject to manipulation. In particular, the government was concerned about the subjective evaluation of social agents and about concealable goods giving room to abuses in terms of program eligibility. Continuous Improvement: Strengthening Georgia's Targeted Social Assistance Program assesses the technical work and the policy actions taken by the Georgian government during 2014 and 2015. It covers the full cycle of the reform of a social assistance program, from establishing the objectives to the design of compensation measures that minimize the number of newly ineligible beneficiaries. In particular, it describes the revision of the PMT formula, the introduction of a scheme of benefits that decreases with the score and an associated assistance program for children, the pretesting of the new formula, and the design of compensation measures. The report also includes a chapter with specific recommendations for Georgia to consider in its efforts to improve its system of social protection and labor.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973289403321

Titolo

Other Renaissances : A New Approach to World Literature / / edited by B. Schildgen, Z. Gang, S. Gilman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006

ISBN

9786611361396

9781281361394

1281361399

9780230601895

0230601898

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchildgenBrenda Deen <1942->

ZhouGang <1966->

GilmanSander L

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Literature

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

Literary Theory

World Literature

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Suppressed Renaissance: Q: When Is a Renaissance Not a Renaissance? A: When It Is the Ottoman Renaissance!; 2 The People's Entertainments: Translation, Popular Fiction, and the Nahdah in Egypt; 3 Looking Forward to the Past: Nahda, Revolution, and the Early Ba'th in Iraq; 4 How a Cultural Renaissance Preceded a National Renaissance: The Revival of Hebrew and the Rejuvenation of the Jewish People; 5 The Chinese Renaissance: A Transcultural Reading

6 Sri Aurobindo: Renaissance in India and the Italian Renaissance7 Irish Renaissance; 8 Globalizing the Harlem Renaissance: Irish, Mexican, and



"Negro" Renaissances in The Survey and Survey Graphic; 9 The Long Maori Renaissance; 10 Two Chicago Renaissances with Harlem between Them; 11 The Present Confusion Concerning the Renaissance: Burckhardtian Legacies in the Cold War United States; Epilogue: When the New is Not New; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Other Renaissances is a collection of twelve essays discussing renaissances outside the Italian and Italian prompted European Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The collection proposes an approach to reframing the Renaissance in which the European Renaissance becomes an imaginative idea, rather than a particular moment in time.