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As we usher in the welcome signs of spring--sunshine and warmer temperatures, birds chirping outside our home office windows, kids (and parents) able to enjoy some much-needed outside activities--we also [...]

Editor's Note: A need exists within environmental health agencies to increase their capacity to perform in an environment of diminishing resources. With limited resources and increasing demands, we need to [...]

A randomized evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program in Nicaragua provides evidence that the cash transfer program has led to increased household expenditures. There is little evidence that the cash transfer program boosted agricultural or non-agricultural investment. Limited potential for increases in human capital investment-motivated consumption exists in the long run.

The lived experiences of women that challenge mainstream understandings of women's success post welfare and a theoretical and methodological framework that is based on an intersectional analysis is described. It is felt that to bring about real reform of welfare individualistic perceptions of poverty should be dropped and people need the assurance of a meaningful job that gives them a decent wage and benefits.

The critique of conditionality has led to the recent emphasis on 'ownership' by the recipient government. To promote ownership it has been suggested that traditional ex ante conditionality based on (promises) of policy changes be replaced by ex post conditionality in which aid is based on performance in terms of ultimate objectives. In this spirit, the European Commission has reformed its adjustment aid. This article reviews early experience with the EU initiative in four countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Madagascar and Uganda. We find a shift toward intermediate indicators, which are too distant from the final impact of the policies. Key words--conditionally, EU aid, performance indicators

The debate over how to stimulate the United States economy continues despite the terrorist attacks on American on September 11, 2001. Democrats insist that reducing the budget deficit will stimulate the sluggish economy and the Republicans argue that tax cuts are what is needed to revive the economy.

The implementation period for the 2013 annual plan for distribution of aid to the most deprived has been prolonged for two months. Member state representatives and the European Commission, meeting [...]

A few days before the official start of winter, the EU has confirmed it will maintain aid for its most deprived citizens beyond 2013. MEPs agreed, on 28 November, on [...]

The EU Committee of the Regions (CoR) will be the first EU institution to issue its opinion on the proposals for the post-2013 Structural Funds, at its next plenary session, [...]

After being rejected by the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets (BUDG), on 11 October 2011, the application for intervention from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) for workers laid off [...]

The European Commission's revision of state aid rules for services of general economic interest (SGEI) clarifies concepts and introduces a more proportionate approach by easing up constraints for more sectors. [...]

The member states, local authorities and certain providers of services of general economic interest (SGEIs) have won their fight over the very controversial recast of the de minimis regulation. The [...]

The European Parliament approved, on 28 September, three applications for European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) aid made by Germany, Denmark and Portugal. During the plenary session in Strasbourg, MEPs approved [...]

The proposals to reform the rules on services of general economic interest (SGEIs) represent a step in the right direction but need more work. This was the general message delivered [...]

The EU will disburse 15.4 million to finance the professional reinsertion of redundant workers in Austria and the Netherlands. In its plenary session on 14 September, the European Parliament approved [...]

On 22 September, the European Commission approved two applications for European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) aid for a total sum of 6.5 million. The first application was made by Greece, [...]

The EU's Council of Ministers approved, on 18 July, two applications from Austria for assistance from the EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). The total sum applied for and approved is [...]

The European Commission is preparing to change the rules on state aid for services of general economic interest (SGEI). Their implementation has been positive on the whole but certain clarifications [...]

The conference on the future of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) concluded on 26 January with a clear message: collective redundancies will not disappear with the crisis, which makes [...]

On 15 October, the European Commission approved an intervention request of 8,308,555 addressed to the European Globalisation adjustment Fund (EGF) by German authorities. This cash boost is set to facilitate [...]

The European Commission accepted, on 4 October, six applications from the Netherlands for assistance under the EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) following the redundancy of 3,058 workers in the publishing [...]

Both GOPers and Dems are 'launching bids to rewrite major parts' of the $862B stimulus law. A group of Dem lawmakers is 'demanding' that the Obama admin. temporarily 'halt wind-energy-project [...]

Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D) 'defended his support' 2/18 for the Wall Street bailout 'as 'a rescue plan for Main Street.'' Kanjorski: 'If we hadn't passed that (stimulus) rescue program, by [...]

Rep. Nathan Deal (R-09) and Rep. Paul Broun (R-10) said the WH 'broke protocol by not inviting them to' VP Biden's 12/17 speech in GA. Biden appeared 12/17 with Gov. [...]