Developing an annuity market in Europe

On the premise that pension provision in Europe will dramatically change over the next few decades, this book concentrates on the funded component of pension wealth, and specifically on annuities # financial products that, on the basis of actuarial equivalence, allow the conversion of wealth into ...

El estado de bienestar en España

Este volumen analiza críticamente la situación del Estado del Bienestar en España, tanto globalmente como en sus distintos componentes tales como la Seguridad Social, el mercado laboral con énfasis en el análisis de la precariedad, la situación de la inmigración, la calidad y la financiación ...

Reforming pensions in Europe

evolution of pensions financing and resources of retirement income

Since the early 1990s the countries of the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe have been involved in the process of reforming their retirement income systems. The principal objective of these reforms is to contain the cost of pay-as-you-go public pension in the face ...

Public private pertnerships

the worldwide revolution infrastructure provision and project finance

This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies. One outstanding feature of the book is that it brings together an academic assessment ...

Public-private partnerships

policy and experience

Few current issues in public management are as controversial as public private partnerships (PPPs). The intensity of the debate reflects the importance of the concept to the government as it focuses on its central policy objective of improving public services, and the degree of opposition ...

Public pension fund management

governance, accountability, and investment policies

Until recently, #public pension fund management# is an area that received little attention by policymakers, practitioners, and development agencies. Even though there is growing interest in the public pension fund reform both in emerging and developed countries, there are not many resources available in the ...

A handbook of comparative social policy

The current context of social policy is one in which many of the old certainties of the past have been eroded. The predominantly inward-looking, domestic preoccupation of social policy has made way for a more integrated, international and outward approach to analysis which looks beyond ...

La gestión tributaria

especiañ referencia a los procedimientos que la integran: análisis de la nueva Ley 58/2003, General Tributaria, en relación a la Ley 230/1963

En la presente obra se pretende una primera aproximación y exposición, de forma clara y breve, del contenido que en la Nueva Ley General Tributaria se da a los procedimientos específicos de comprobación por los órganos de gestión tributaria: verificación de datos, comprobación de valores ...

New risk, new welfare

the transformation of the European welfare state

This book, based on brand new data from a major study and long-standing collaboration between a number of prominent European scholars, provides a fresh perspective on the future of the welfare state across the EU. Through detailed case-study analysis, it analyses the emergence of new ...

Public Health, ethics, and equity

ÍNDICE: Amartya Sen: Preface Sudhir Anand and Fabienne Peter: Introduction I. Health Equity 1 Sudhir Anand: The Concern for Equity in Health 2 Amartya Sen: Why Health Equity? II. Health, Society, and Justice 3 Michael Marmot: Social Causes of Social Inequalities in Health 4 Norman ...

El control tributario

potestades, procedimientos y garantías

Este trabajo recoge múltiples aspectos en torno al hecho de la necesidad del Control por parte de las Administraciones Tributarias. Por un lado el propio control de los órganos encargados de la prevención del fraude, por otro el control del contribuyente a través de elementos ...

Le limitazione amministrative della spesa

Gender and the welfare state

care, work and welfare in Europe and the USA

"Gender and the Welfare State" offers a comparative picture of the welfare state and gender relations. It explores how care, work and welfare are constituted in eight countries (France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the USA). The book examines the impact ...

The economics of public spending

Tolley's tax guide

2003-04

La evaluación de la acción y de las políticas públicas

La evaluación de la Acción y de las Políticas Públicas es el primer texto en español que abarca la discusión de la metodología de la evaluación, el alcance conceptual de la evaluación de la acción pública en un Estado en transformación, el análisis de la ...

Democracy and regulation

how the public can govern essential services

Essential services are being privatised the world over. Whether it's water, gas, electricity or the phone network, everywhere from Sao Paulo in Brazil to Leeds in the UK is following the US economic model and handing public services over to private companies whose principal ...

Intelligence as a principle of public economy = Del pensiero come principio d'economia publica

Ley General Presupuestaria

La realidad social

Decir que la sociología es la ciencia que estudia la realidad social no ofrece dificultad, pero decir qué sea la realidad social es muy difícil. La realidad social, en efecto, no sólo es como es (claro está), sino también como parece que es, lo que ...