The Europeanization of Workplace Pensions: Economic Interests, Social Protection, and Credible Signaling, by A.Hennessy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN 9781107041059); xii+178pp., £69.99 hb.

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 665-666
Author(s):  
Tamara Popić
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Workplace Pensions

scholarly journals MAIN DIRECTIONS IN THE PUBLISHING AND POLYGRAPHIC COMPLEX

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svitlana Gutkevych ◽  
Lina Shenderivska
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Additional Costs ◽  
High Level

The article reveals the main issues related to the management of publishing and printing companies in the current conditions of economic development. The enterprises of the publishing and printing complex are considered as objects of investment. The basic functions of management, such as planning, organization, motivation, analysis, control are defined. Modern enterprises, which meet the needs of consumers and meet their economic interests, along with the classic tasks perform a number of socially significant functions that do not provide direct capitalization, but become a prerequisite for competitiveness. Thus, the implementation of social projects requires additional costs and is not for profit, adherence to the principles of green economy does not always have an economic benefit for the company, but requires investment. In this way, the management of enterprises becomes more open, externally oriented, and the focus shifts from the economic purpose of functioning to the social mission of the business entity. This fully corresponds to the enterprises of the publishing and printing industry, which is not a priority sector of the national economy, but is attractive to investors as one that is associated with the formation, use, development of intellectual capital. We analyzed the general management methods used in publishing and printing companies, the results of which established a number of features. Economic management methods are more developed in medium-sized enterprises, which in their work are guided by the provisions on bonuses. The payment of bonuses in small businesses is unsystematic due to the unstable amount of funding, and depends on the decision of the head of the distribution of funds between different areas of development, which negatively affects the motivation to work. At the same time, to increase the level of social protection of workers, printing companies are introducing an hourly form of wages for workers, which helps to stabilize wages in underemployment. To ensure the competitiveness of printing production, it is advisable to ensure the efficiency of production by improving operational and calendar planning, the use of parallel or combined cycle, automation of orders, improving quality control in preparation for printing, development of logistics capacity, focus on high level of services.

scholarly journals IMPROVING THE MECHANISM OF USING THE PRICE FACTOR IN THE EFFECTIVE REGULATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ON THE BASIS OF FUZZY LOGIC

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahib Imamguluyev ◽  
Elvin Balakishiyev ◽  
Nihad Agakishiev
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Economic Democracy ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern Economic

When studying the role of the price mechanism in the sustainable development of the economy, in accordance with the requirements of the modern economic mechanism, first of all, attention should be paid to the issue of state regulation of prices. The attitude to state regulation of prices is ambiguous. Existing control over the implementation of state regulation of the prices of a group of products based on the social protection of the population and the economic interests of the state, and economic legitimacy is sometimes perceived as a violation of economic democracy. However, the analysis of the role of the price factor in economic development proves that this idea has no basis. Thus, it is not possible to make accurate calculations so that the price of the product can change at any time for various reasons. Therefore, it is advisable to approach these calculations on the basis of fuzzy logic.

MGNREGA in Kashmir: An Analysis of Labour Market Outcomes and Livelihood Security

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-446
Author(s):  
Mushtaq Ahmad Malla
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes ◽  
Employment Guarantee

This article attempts to examine the coverage and labour market outcomes of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in Kashmir. It is based on a cross-sectional mixed-method study of 200 households, 40 bureaucrats and local political representatives conducted in Kupwara, one of the poorest districts of Jammu & Kashmir. The article argues that MGNREGA is poorly implemented and is not functioning as a guaranteed safety net for the poor households that suffer from job scarcity. Considerable benefits are directed towards the non-poor, while several poor and deserving households are excluded. This bias is a result of rationing in local distribution by middlemen in collusion with bureaucrats to further their political and economic interests. In addition, the administration’s orientation towards MGNREGA as a development policy instead of a social protection, supply shortage in the provision of MGNREGA work and administrative delays in project operationalisation are some of the key bottlenecks. The article contends that the policy has enormous scope and potential to achieve its anticipated objective of acting as livelihood protection for job scarce workers in rural Kashmir, if it is implemented as a social protection policy following its provisions in its true spirit.

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