Sentences with phrase «social welfare functions»

The local militias courageously vanquished Gadhafi and in many areas have provided a modicum of security and social welfare functions in his wake.

Given this growing consensus, what's provocative about Renewing American Compassion is not that it argues for returning social welfare functions to civil society, but that it dares to offer specific and useful proposals for how this might happen.

Much of this change was of course the expansion of health, education and social welfare functions at the provincial levels.

by -1 = e ^ i pi Expected social welfare maximization is where you try to obtain the set of parameters (such as climate change policies) that will maximize the expected value of a social welfare function.

The Atkinson measure of inequality (Atkinson, 1970) is based on an additively separable social welfare function (SWF), and is therefore particularly appropriate for representing the prioritarian theory described in Section 3.4.6.

social welfare function with final output as change in GDP.

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Partly it has been a function of imitation, beginning in the nineteenth century with Bismarck's social welfare programs in Germany, and partly it has been prompted by international economic competition, again starting in the nineteenth century, with national governments playing an increasing role in regulating and promoting all forms of economic activity.

She enjoys networking adoptable dogs from all over Ohio, which is one of the primary functions of her social media pages, Sarah's Space for K9 Rescue & Awareness (facebook) & SarahsSpace4K9s (Instagram), where she also shares helpful info for dog owners & important animal welfare issues.

These negative impacts touch upon people's welfare and health, social cohesion, culture and identity — values that contribute to the functioning of society but which elude monetary valuation.

Just as environmentalists argue that we should withdraw genetically modified crops from sale until they are proved safe, conservatives could argue that welfare benefits to never - married single mothers should be withdrawn until they are proved non-hazardous to social functioning.

In a recent working paper, we simulated how the proposed rule would affect energy market outcomess and social welfare, assuming that it does not harm the efficient functioning of markets in ways beyond the subsidization of certain plants.

It is certainly understandable that the objective of general deterrence is «particularly applicable to public welfare offences where it is essential for the proper functioning of our society for citizens at large to expect that basic rules are established and enforced to protect the physical, economic and social welfare of the public.»

An HR executive is responsible for performing the primary functions of the HR department, handling diverse aspects such as personnel management, maintenance of HR records, and social welfare.

Aided individuals and families having problems concerning family relationships and other aspects of their social functioning affecting unity of family and welfare of community.

This occurred even though these children's mothers showed almost none of the postnatal benefits observed for those visited during pregnancy and infancy (such as reduced welfare dependence, substance abuse, criminal behavior, and child abuse and neglect).8 The mechanisms through which these beneficial effects occurred will be examined in future reports, with a focus on the alteration of maternal prenatal health and the children's corresponding neuropsychological functioning, 22,23 as well as prenatal stress, given that stress during pregnancy affects the social and neuromotor development of nonhuman primates.24, 25

The Act also places a duty on local agencies to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, and brings together responsibility for all local authority social care and education functions for children under local Directors of Children's Services and Lead Members for Children's Services.