Their employment rate leapt from 44% in 1993 to 66% in 2000 (see chart) and the poverty rate, instead of rising sharply, dropped from 15.1% to 11.3%.A decade ago, much of the political left believed that such a rapid transition from welfare to work was impossible, and the reforms cruel.
The new century promises a rapid increase in the welfare of Cypriots parallel to the solution of the political dispute.
A 30-year-old polar bear at a wildlife park in Scotland has been put down after suffering "age-related health problems and a rapid deterioration in her welfare".
Not only does he overlook some of the genuine structural changes made in the past few years; but he also largely dismisses the lessons from Scandinavian countries that have managed to combine high taxes and generous welfare with rapid growth and high employment.The book also betrays another German obsession: with the health of manufacturing industry.
Despite a backdrop of rapid economic expansion and significant welfare growth in the 1980s, Pakistan experienced an 8% point increase in poverty in the next decade.
As Paul Collier notes, "most people who consider themselves progressive want multiculturalism combined with rapid migration and generous social welfare programs", but he argues that "some combinations of policy choices may be unsustainable", and he claims that multiculturalism and national solidarity are such an unsustainable combination (Collier, 2013: 264 5).
The housing crisis triple-whammy of social housing shortages, welfare reforms, and rapid gentrification have seen Wandsworth Council sending its poorest and most vulnerable further and further away.
I have to go to study but I feel so sick". The housing crisis triple-whammy of social housing shortages, welfare reforms and rapid gentrification have seen Wandsworth Council sending its poorest and most vulnerable further and further away.
One aspect of the rapid expansion of the Finnish welfare state in the early 1970s was the idea of improving people's health through a comprehensive planning system of all public sectors.
Recent changes in the lives of the Arctic communities have had differnt impacts on the lives of women and men; these include the rapid social changes caused by welfare state policies, economic policies and urbanisation.
