Essays about: "Social Policy Expenditure"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words Social Policy Expenditure.
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1. Spend More, Feel Better? Investigating the impact of social policy expenditure on the severity of individual depressive symptoms throughout Europe
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Depression has recently been highlighted across OECD countries as a public health crisis in need of immediate action. Unfortunately, the most popularized public policy solutions focus on individual biomedical or psychosocial interventions. READ MORE
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2. From Remittances to Development: Exploring Nepal's Path to Progress
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Nepal is one of the largest recipients of remittances compared to the size of the economy, reaching 30,1% of GDP in 2018. This makes understanding them, their effects, and how to positively impact that an important policy tool. READ MORE
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3. Transformation of a policy instrument for energy renovation of housing : Real case application on the French tax credit for energy transition
University essay from KTH/Energi och klimatstudier, ECSAbstract : The fight against climate change and the reduction of energy precarity are two major challenges of the energy policy of any country. Energy management in the building sector, particularly in the housing sector, is therefore crucial, and the energy renovation of housing makes it possible to reconcile these challenges by reducing households energy expenditure and greenhouse gas emissions in the residential sector. READ MORE
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4. Of Funds and Values: The Rule of Law conditionality: A politicization of the European Union Cohesion Policy?
University essay from Lunds universitet/EuropastudierAbstract : This research looks at if the Cohesion Policy is politicized, by looking at the newly proposed Rule of Law conditionality attached to funding, and what this signifies for European Integration. As the conditionality adds to the fold of an ever-increasing amount of internal EU conditionality attached to EU funding since 2014, this paper re-tools Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier’s external incentive model, and finds that there is a politicization of the Cohesion Policy. READ MORE
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5. Female political representation and social spending
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis investigates whether the share of female legislative representation on a national level has an impact on public expenditure on social issues such as health care, education and elderly care. Using panel data primarily from the Comparative Welfare States dataset I perform a within-country analysis over time using both OLS and IV estimations. READ MORE
