THE NIGERIAN OIL RESOURCEAND SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND: AN INTERROGATION by Joshua DANJUMA

“…Findings reveal poor political institutions, corruption and lack of accountability, weak executive control of oil resource governance with apparent inadequate checks and balances, and the resultant conflicts and clashes of interests, manipulations, and inflation of oil contracts with favouritism in allocating oil blocs to cronies.Therefore, this articleshades in a newlight by interrogating the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund to ensure optimal benefits of oil wealth to all citizenry; it submits that measures must be adopted in building political institutions, reforming the Niger Delta Development Commission; diversification, building a welfare state, equitable distribution of oil wealth and the imposition of direct tax. …”
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Spain: socio-economic development in the context of the present demographic challenge by Galina N. Ponedelko

“…Predicted for 2050 the shifts in the age structure of the population and a reduction in it the share of the most working-age group (from 16 to 45 years) with a simultaneous sharp increase (up to 30%) in the oldest age group of the population (over 65 years) will lead to further depopulation of a significant part of the country’s territory, a reduction in the number and the share of the employed population, an increase in the burden on the pension and health care systems and a weakening of the potential of the welfare state. The response to these very negative consequences of the demographic challenge should be the most decisive actions of the Spanish government, the main one of which is the reform of the education system, aimed at improving of the quality of human capital and the level of professionalization of the country’s population. …”
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Capitalisme agraire en Indonésie : les marchés du travail et de la terre comme déterminants des rapports salariaux dans les plantations de palmier à huile by Stéphanie Barral

“…A field study held in six large private plantations shows that the liberal and paternalist form of the welfare State leads to a strong influence of labor market on companies’ remuneration and protection policies. …”
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East Asian Welfare Regimes 東アジア福祉制度 by Joseph Wong, Andrew DeWit, Ito Peng

“…One of the critically distinctive features of the East Asian welfare state typology was and remains the rather restricted fiscal role of the state. …”
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Deepening the data divide: Marginalised perspectives and non-profit priorities in Australian data sharing reforms by Xiaofang Yao, Anthony McCosker, Yong-Bin Kang

“…In the contemporary datafied welfare state, open public data and data sharing are increasingly vexed issues in times of data-driven artificial intelligence (AI). …”
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Co-production, new public governance and third sector social services in Europe by Victor Pestoff

“…Many countries in Europe are searching for new ways to engage citizens and involve the third sector in the provision and governance of social services in order to meet major demographical, political and economic challenges facing the welfare state in the 21st century. Co-production provides a model for the mix of public service agents and citizens who contribute to the provision of a public service. …”
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State and culture in sustainability transformations: structural power, democracy, and the promise of a Marcusian cultural politics of critical meaning-making by Marit Hammond

“…Yet, according to historical-institutionalist state theory, the imperatives of the liberal-capitalist democratic welfare state give rise to a “glass ceiling” of transformation that limits prospects for such systemic change beyond quality-of-life improvements that remain consistent with liberal capitalism. …”
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The Geopolitics of Nordic Noir by Dodds Klaus, Hochscherf Tobias

“…We look specifically at the dramas Okkupert [Occupied] (NRK, 2015–), Ørnen [The Eagle] (DR, 2004–2006), Nobel – fred for enhver pris [Nobel – Peace at any Cost] (NRK, 2016), and Kriger [Warrior] (Netflix, 2018–) as they explore potential threats to Scandinavian society and the Nordic welfare state through the distinct figure of the vigilante veteran. …”
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Inovação social: rumo a uma mudança experimental na política pública? by Lars Hulgård, Adriane Vieira Ferrarini

“…Social innovation and social entrepreneurship arise as important factors for the renewal of the welfare state. The change in social structure was studied by the EMES-European Research Network from the perspective of the emergence of a new type of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…Based on digitized Swedish population registers between c. 1700-1950, the database contains micro-data that covers the agrarian society through industrialization and further on to the Swedish welfare state and contemporary society. It is now possible to study the profound processes of the second demographic transition using individual level data with a proper size population. …”
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Les déterminants de la dynamique spatiale de la ville de Bingerville (sud de la Côte d'Ivoire) de 1960 à nos jours by Akou Don Franck Valéry Loba

“…A survey of the technical department of the council has provided information on land management.In 1960, the date of declaration of independence until 1985, despite the interventions of the welfare state, the growth of the urban stain was very insignificant. …”
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Place-based Guaranteed Minimum Income in Barcelona: (un)intended inclusionary policy for migrants by Laura Colini

“… Discussions about Basic Income have gained traction recently when debating possible reforms of the welfare state, how to combat poverties and wealth inequalities, and to counteract job losses in the aftermath of the Pandemic. …”
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Young investors, precariousness, and the maturing asset economy by Monique de Jong McKenzie

“…This precariousness emerges from their material and discursive context that includes a retreating welfare state, wage stagnation, limited employment pathways, and individualised risk management. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…Based on digitized Swedish population registers between c. 1700-1950, the database contains micro-data that covers the agrarian society through industrialization and further on to the Swedish welfare state and contemporary society. It is now possible to study the profound processes of the second demographic transition using individual level data with a proper size population. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…Based on digitized Swedish population registers between c. 1700-1950, the database contains micro-data that covers the agrarian society through industrialization and further on to the Swedish welfare state and contemporary society. It is now possible to study the profound processes of the second demographic transition using individual level data with a proper size population. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…Based on digitized Swedish population registers between c. 1700-1950, the database contains micro-data that covers the agrarian society through industrialization and further on to the Swedish welfare state and contemporary society. It is now possible to study the profound processes of the second demographic transition using individual level data with a proper size population. …”
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Place-based Guaranteed Minimum Income in Barcelona: (un)intended inclusionary policy for migrants by Laura Colini

“… Discussions about Basic Income have gained traction recently when debating possible reforms of the welfare state, how to combat poverties and wealth inequalities, and to counteract job losses in the aftermath of the Pandemic. …”
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Dystopia, surveillance and the spaces of social control in Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon (2012) by Claire Wrobel

“…Although the text explicitly reappropriates the Panopticon designed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), an invention itself riven by the tension between utopia and dystopia, and echoes Michel Foucault’s strategic reading in Discipline and Punish (1975), the virulent critique it levels at the welfare state echoes some of the central issues to be found in George Orwell's attack on totalitarian states, particularly those related to memory and language. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…Based on digitized Swedish population registers between c. 1700-1950, the database contains micro-data that covers the agrarian society through industrialization and further on to the Swedish welfare state and contemporary society. It is now possible to study the profound processes of the second demographic transition using individual level data with a proper size population. …”
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International Experience of Legal Regulation of Social Vacations by V. O. Latysheva

“…It is very important aspect of the welfare state, society must provide such persons with certain social protection and assistance, as well as labor benefits in connection with the responsibilities of raising children and other circumstances, because employees with family responsibilities have the possibility to combine their professional activities with family responsibilities without the damage for their own health, the interests of children and society. …”
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