scholarly journals Labor market performance in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina from a gender perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Ognjen Radonjić ◽  
Isidora Jarić
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Formal Economy ◽  
Supranational Institutions

In this paper we analyze some aspects of the efficiency of labor markets in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina and compare resulting outcomes with the outcomes of labor markets efficiency in selected economies of the European Union. A particular focus of our analysis is on gender equality, due to the fact that not only gender inequality negatively affects the quality of life of individuals and society in general, but also can produce significant macroeconomic losses which negatively affect economic growth and development. When formulating policy that aims to increase the employability and income of the local population, our recommendation to governments, non-governmental and supranational institutions is to simultaneously take all necessary steps in order to provide women equal access to labor markets. This primarily refers to equality in access to newly created jobs, the uniformity of wages for a work with equal qualification, equal access to employment in formal economy, equal safety at work, equal access to social safety net etc.

scholarly journals IMPROVING DESIGN OF DAIRY COWS HOUSING IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Trkulja
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Dairy Cows ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Dairy Cow ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Aesthetic Quality ◽  
Good Production ◽  
Microclimatic Conditions

Agriculture represents a very important economic field in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH). The construction and architectural design of dairy cow facilities depend on many factors, primarily the economic and technological conditions, and the geoclimatic features of the area where construction of the agricultural facility is planned. The agricultural facilities must provide proper accommodation for animals, their good production, adequate microclimatic conditions and their presence must not disturb ecological and aesthetic quality of the environment in which they are located. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the design of facades and the design og agricultural facilities. This paper puts an emphasis on clarifying the approaches used in the design of dairy cow facilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as contemporary approaches of the European Union (EU). The aim of this paper is to indicate how the new approaches apply to design of these types of objects.

scholarly journals Criminalized hospitality: The case of Velika Kladusa

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 397-418
Author(s):  
Ursula Lipovec-Cebron ◽  
Eva Fekonja ◽  
Tina Ivnik
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Local Population ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Introductory Part

The article examines how discourses of hospitality towards migrants/refugees are changing in Velika Kladusa, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina close to the Croatian border. Since 2018, this city has been confronted with the presence of a large number of people on the move, and has seen the development of a multi-layered tension between the spontaneous hospitality of the local population and the increasingly repressive policies of the European Union and restrictive local measures that criminalize not only migrants/refugees but also all forms of solidarity with them. In the introductory part of the article, the concept of hospitality is briefly analysed on the basis of concepts presented in various anthropological sources as well as in contemporary research on migration and hospitality. In the succeeding chapters we explore the dynamics that arise where hospitality intersects with the public and the private spheres. Our fieldwork material from Velika Kladusa have shown that the attitude of the local population towards migrants/refugees is influenced by the interference of authorities (police, inspectors, etc.) in the area of hospitality, and indicates a transformation of local hospitality practices towards migrants/refugees, which we have defined as a shift from open to criminalized hospitality. Under these changed circumstances, some residents of Velika Kladusa react to the criminalization of hospitality with acceptance, some by negotiating with it and others by openly opposing it.

Poverty In Indonesia: Critical Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 127-132
Author(s):  
Syech Idrus ◽  
Lia Rosida
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Rural Development Program ◽  
Health Need

This article critically review the information regarding poverty issues in Indonesia, by unravelling the causes and impacts of poverty and its aggregates comprising rural poverty, women and poverty, as well as other social indicators. This review article based on data provided in secondary resources shows that Asian Financial crisis in 2008 was regarded as the greatest intrusion of economic stability, rendering more adverse poverty incidences in Indonesia. Although Indonesia could slowly recover from the crisis, poverty remains problematic for certain groups and women in some particular areas especially rural areas. Moreover, despite several policies have been stipulated to deal with poverty such as Rural Development Program and Social Safety Net, some poverty elements related to social capital such as education, employment and health need to be improved. Thus, Indonesian government should pay more attention to improve the quality of the provisions and policies, assuring the beneficial contribution to Indonesian citizens’ welfare.

scholarly journals Impact of Public Spending on the Quality of Life in Rural Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Zannatul Fardoush
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
The Impact

Public spending is one of the most effective instruments in improving the quality of life as an entrenched goal of economic development. However, as the resources are limited, a better distribution would, therefore, require a thorough investigation regarding the impact analysis of public spending on actual development factors. This paper has examined the link between public expenditures in different sectors of economy and improvement in the quality of life through the channel of agricultural growth or rural development in Bangladesh and also throughs the education channel such as the school enrollments. A simultaneous equation model in the form of a 3-Stage Least Square (3SLS) technique has been used to explore the impacts of public spending. By using the data from 1982-2017, this study finds that public spending in education, health, social safety net, and agriculture has positive impacts on the quality of life advancement. A 1 percent increase in public spending in education would result in an increase in quality of life (proxied by life expectancy) by 0.182 percent on average, ceteris paribus. The public expenditure elasticities in health, social safety net, and agriculture on the quality of life are found as 0.05, 0.03, 0.04 respectively. The only concern is the spending in the transportation and communication sector which is probably due to the misallocation and mismanagement of available resources and funds into this sector. Hence, to grasp the agricultural and rural development, the government should continue to institutionalize the policies that support the education of the poor in rural areas.

scholarly journals It’s a Hard-Knock Life: Child Labor Practices and Compliance with IMF Agreements

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Brendan Skip Mark ◽  
Huei-Jyun Ye ◽  
Andrew Foote ◽  
Tiffani Crippin
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Control Function ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Function Selection ◽  
Trade And Investment

How does IMF lending impact child labor? We argue that, as compliance with IMF reforms increases, child labor increases. IMF loans can help governments avoid bankruptcy, prevent debt defaults, and credibly signal a commitment to pro-market reforms which should generate trade and investment. However, IMF policies associated with revenue and social policies can have negative impacts on child labor. Education reforms undermine the quality of schooling, making child labor more likely. Healthcare reforms undermine the quality of healthcare; when parents are ill or injured, their children are more likely to enter the workforce to make up for lost income. Similarly, social safety net reforms reduce the ability of families to access a safety net during times of hardship and make it more likely that children are pushed into the labor market to keep families afloat. To test our argument, we use a control function selection model on a sample of 70 IMF borrowers between 2002 and 2016. Using new datasets on IMF compliance and child labor, we find that increased compliance with IMF reforms worsens child labor practices. Revenue and social policy compliance in particular are associated with an increase in child labor.

scholarly journals A Picture of the Social Situation

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
Ildikó Laki
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
The Social ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
Institutional Network ◽  
Social Protection Systems

The main purpose of the current study was to outline and assess a picture of the Hungarian and international welfare systems. The social care system is an essential institutional network for the society, be it a system of specific institutions or legislation. The European Union’s approach mainly focuses on social responsibility and solidarity as its primary consideration. The European Union considers that social safety net and social protection systems cannot work without adopting this approach, and only the systems that offer true assistance to the members of the society can actually give assistance to the society. In addition to economic orientation, solidarity-based and socially inclusive attitude has a particularly important role to play, since it is much more than just funding to smooth out individual or social problems.

scholarly journals Cash Transfer and Humanitarian Assistance

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-113
Author(s):  
Ceren Ark-Yıldırım ◽  
Marc Smyrl
Keyword(s):  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
First Century ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Political Background ◽  
Forced Migrants

AbstractIn this chapter, we turn our attention to cash transfer (CT) as an instrument of humanitarian assistance for forced migrants in Turkey. We first consider the emergence of CT as a priority instrument for humanitarian assistance in the twenty-first century. We then sketch the political background of humanitarian assistance in Turkey for persons displaced by internal conflicts in Syria focusing in particular on the EU–Turkey agreements that led to the establishment of the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (FRiT) in 2016. In a final section we focus on the establishment as part of FRiT of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN), the largest humanitarian CT program ever established by the European Union. We discuss in particular the program’s institutional complexity and the resulting risk of ambiguous consensus and conflicts of interest among the agencies involved in its design and implementation.

Care Work on the Front Lines

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (820) ◽  
pp. 326-328
Author(s):  
Mary F. E. Ebeling
Keyword(s):  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Outpatient Care ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Essential Work ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
The Us

An ethnographic study of the work of nurse practitioners at an outpatient care facility shows how these medical professionals must endlessly multitask to fill gaps in the US social safety net. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new focus on the essential work of nurses and the lack of resources with which they often contend is especially timely.

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