Social sciences worst off as projects remain unfunded

A Trade - off for Worst - Case Efficientdictionariesrasmus

Social Welfare, Priority to the Worst-off Working Paper and the Dimensions of Individual Well Being

When well-being is one-dimensional, the key ethical issue for the definition of social welfare is the degree of inequality aversion, which can be discussed with variants of the Pigou-Dalton transfer principle. When it is measured in terms of primary goods, functionings or capabilities, individual well-being is fundamentally multi-dimensional. It is then important to take account of individual p...

Health sciences library building projects: 1994 survey.

Designing and building new or renovated space is time consuming and requires politically sensitive discussions concerning a number of both long-term and immediate planning issues. The Medical Library Association's fourth annual survey of library building projects identified ten health sciences libraries that are planning, expanding, or constructing new facilities. Two projects are in predesign ...

in Humanities , Social Sciences , and Natural Sciences

Funding unfunded pensions

For many larger multinational companies, unfunded pensions represent an unmanaged risk and a growing liability. With the removal of the ‘corridor’ in the new IFRS IAS19R accounting regulations, unfunded pensions have become an increased source of volatility on the corporate balance sheet. Despite this, until today, funding unfunded pensions locally has either been too expensive or not possible....