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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedAusterity measures in Europe are "destroying" health care systems and increasing xenophobia, according to a shocking new report by Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World), published on 9 April. The report emphasises...
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From:The Cato Journal (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA great number of European governments have decided on austerity policies to reduce their fiscal deficits and public debt. In order to evaluate such policies, it is necessary to analyze the present and past economic...
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From:Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations (Vol. 70, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn recent years, the adoption of austerity measures to overcome the sovereign debt crisis has highlighted the weakness of trade unions as institutions, but has also represented a test of the latter's capacity to offer...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedThe last time a demonstration reached such proportions in Brussels was in 2001, when 80,000 people took to the streets to demand a "more social Europe". At an Euro-demonstration, on 29 September, the European Trade...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 39, Issue 3)In 1970s New York, an age of austerity led to a rise in graffiti. So it is in Greece, 40 years later. FOR FOUR MONTHS IN 2014, I taught at Greece's Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, a school and community gripped...
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From:Conservation and Society (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Megan. Youdelis Several notable controversies around private sector interests in national parks throughout Canada have erupted within the last five years. These controversies are arising within the context of...
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From:Labour/Le Travail (Issue 77) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Based on focus group interviews of front line staff, this study explored the lived experiences of workers in the developmental services sector in Ontario. The workers were employed at non-profit...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedThe European Commission believes that online health care has the potential to reduce health expenses without damaging the quality of care. At a conference on 4 March, discussing the impact of austerity measures on...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedSocial solidarity took a back seat in EU policy making in 2011 and the declining real incomes pose serious questions for the survival of the European social model. This message was delivered by European Trade Union...
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From:International Journal of Social Quality (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Chronic deficiencies of the Greek welfare state and the introduction of austerity measures as part of the international financial bailout agreements have created an explosive cocktail of poverty and social...
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From:AMASS (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHow long will this go on? How long will we see the photographs of a Mr. Tsipras and his Finance Minister in despair? The bloodletting continues. Already new austerity measures are being projected for 2018--between...
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From:Italian Politics (Issue 31) Peer-ReviewedThe modernization of the public administration has been one of the main objectives pursued by the Renzi government. What distinguishes the reform cycle launched in 2015 is the emphasis on centralization, unification,...
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From:Journal of Australian Political Economy (Issue 86) Peer-ReviewedContrary to the predictions of many progressive scholars and activists (Klein 2008; Stiglitz 2008), the 2008-9 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) did not lead to the death of neoliberalism. Instead, the last decade has seen...
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From:Independent Review (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe national debt of the U.S. government has doubled to $15.2 trillion in the past four years. The statutory national debt ceiling has proven ineffective in restraining runaway deficit spending, so that a constitutional...
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From:Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article argues that, while socioeconomic rights have the potential to contribute to the contestation of austerity measures and the reimagining of a "postneoliberal" order, there are a number of features of...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedSome EU countries are on the way to becoming "the new China". Or so says - rather enigmatically at that - the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in its annual report Benchmarking working Europe 2013'.aThe report...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedSeveral hundreds of demonstrators blocked the streets of Brussels, on 19 December 2013, to try to stop the EU summit from being held. Farmers, citizens, trade unions and various organisations pulled together under the...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedOn 18 October, a 24-hour nationwide general strike hit Greece following a trade union call - the fourth this year - to protest against austerity imposed by the country's European creditors. Meanwhile, austerity' was the...
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From:IMF Economic Review (Vol. 65, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe 2007-2009 Great Recession has led to an unprecedented increase in public debt in many countries, triggering substantial fiscal adjustments. What are the distributional consequences of fiscal austerity measures? This...
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From:Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Daunting fiscal policy challenges face democratic systems throughout the world. Fiscal austerity in the wake of the Great Recession prompted nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...