World Development Report 2019
World Development Report 2019

Author: World Bank

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2018-10-31

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1464813566

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Work is constantly reshaped by technological progress. New ways of production are adopted, markets expand, and societies evolve. But some changes provoke more attention than others, in part due to the vast uncertainty involved in making predictions about the future. The 2019 World Development Report will study how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today. Technological progress disrupts existing systems. A new social contract is needed to smooth the transition and guard against rising inequality. Significant investments in human capital throughout a person’s lifecycle are vital to this effort. If workers are to stay competitive against machines they need to train or retool existing skills. A social protection system that includes a minimum basic level of protection for workers and citizens can complement new forms of employment. Improved private sector policies to encourage startup activity and competition can help countries compete in the digital age. Governments also need to ensure that firms pay their fair share of taxes, in part to fund this new social contract. The 2019 World Development Report presents an analysis of these issues based upon the available evidence.

Italia: Civilta e Cultura
Italia: Civilta e Cultura

Author: Paola Lorenzi

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2009-03-16

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0761843469

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Italia: Civilta e Cultura offers a comprehensive description of historical and cultural development on the Italian peninsula. This project was developed to provide students and professors with a flexible and easy-to-read reference book about Italian civilization and cultural studies, also appropriate for cinema and Italian literature classes. This text is intended for students pursuing a minor or a major in Italian studies and serves as an important learning tool with its all-inclusive vision of Italy. Each chapter includes thematic itineraries to promote active class discussion and textual comprehension check-questions to guide students through the reading and understanding of the subject matter.

Moral Basis of a Backward Society
Moral Basis of a Backward Society

Author: Edward C. Banfield

Publisher: Free Press

Published: 1967-02-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780029015100

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Looking at how nepotism and family-centric societies sacrifice the public good, Edward C. Banfield uses a study of the people of southern Italy to argue how self-interested families can lead to poverty. Analyzing families in southern Italy in 1955, Moral Basis of a Backward Society discusses how poverty is a result of the inability to trust or associate strongly outside of immediate family. Challenged and argued for years, Edward C. Banfield’s study has become accept by many people in the modern age.

SICILIA ARTEFICI DEL NOSTRO DESTINO
SICILIA ARTEFICI DEL NOSTRO DESTINO

Author: Remo Pulcini

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-11

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1470939762

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SICILIA ARTEFICI DEL NOSTRO DESTINO "Piano di rinascita" PROGRAMMA POLITICO STRATEGICO DI SVILUPPO DI REMO PULCINI

Beyond Marginality?
Beyond Marginality?

Author: Rik van Berkel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-12

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 042987684X

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First published in 1998, this volume describes and analyses organizations of social security claimants and their position in the field of force of the national welfare state in six European countries: representing a diversity of welfare state regimes. The authors analyse these organizations, and their strengths and weaknesses, from a variety of theoretical perspectives: such as the opportunity structures of welfare states and national political relations, the fragmentation of the social movements of social security claimants along ideological and categorical lines, the (im)possibilities of organizing socially highly marginalized groups etc. The volume also contains an introduction and an epilogue, as well as a chapter dealing with the relations between collective and individual forms of social resistance.