Our understanding of whether adaptive capacity on a national level is being translated into
adaptation policies, programs, and projects is limited. Focusing on health adaptation in …

Why do richer countries spend a higher share of their income on social protection than poor
countries? A newly assembled dataset on social protection spending for 142 countries since …

Research background: Income inequality and poverty attract a lot of attention among
politicians, activists as well as scientists, who are trying to find a solution to these socio …

The variety of systems of social protection in the European Union comprises several aspects
and depends upon the nature of welfare states. A welfare state is based on the idea that a …

The claim that social protection is a luxury good—with a national income elasticity
exceeding unity—has as been influential. The paper tests the “luxury good hypothesis” …

Purpose–We answer two questions:(i) does the spending on social-welfare policies
constitute a statistically-significant impulse for reducing poverty among various risk groups in …

Scholars believe that higher social expenditures are usually linked with higher government
debts, whereas higher debts reduce social expenditures. However, it is reasonable to …

The paper aims to present directions for the growth‑enhancing reconstruction of the tax
system in Poland. It presents a diagnosis of the main strengths and weaknesses of that …

We examine the impact of public procurement policy on aid inflows, in Fiji, a small
developing island economy in the Pacific. Prior to 2010, Fiji did not have a strong and …

From the mid-1980s to the late-1990s a considerable number of empirical studies
investigated the impact of the Welfare State (WS) on economic growth with no definite …