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– Social work is a relatively new phenomenon in China. Today, the country has the largest number of people in the world requiring social assistance. There is a…
Increasing evidence shows that stigma – whether due to a child's weight, sexual orientation, race, income or other attribute — is at the root of bullying, and…
Children who have been conceived during a severe epidemic are more resistant against other pathogens later in life. For the first time this has been proved by…
Gender equality is affected by policies in many areas, one of which is fiscal policy. Switzerland's federal system makes it difficult to fully understand the…
Health, qualifications and motivation are the crucial factors determining whether, as a consequence of demographic change, wage-earners can or should go on…
Germany and Canada are among those countries with the largest shares of immigrants worldwide. But whereas in Germany the majority of immigrants have low-level…