The author analyzes the content of new National Security Strategy Russian Federation, compares it with previous documents on national security, and determines its compliance requirements law "On Strategic Planning in Federation." article highlights main features modern model ensuring security: inseparable relationship interdependence security socio-economic development country; a focus factor f...

This paper analyses Brazilian, Chilean and Colombian experiences with conditional cash transfer programmes and how they have helped tackle gendered economic and social vulnerabilities. It is argued that Bolsa Família, Chile Solidario and Familias en Acción should be analysed within the broader social protection strategies in which they are meant to be components. Such an approach can help gener...

Discussion of Research on Food and Nutritional Security (FNS) in Brazil started with the Directory of Brazilian Research Groups from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Searches using the expression 'food security' allowed the identification of 72 groups in 2005. Proportions between researchers and students suggest little dynamism and consolidation of such ...

abstractexamine the concept of national security in a country, its nature, and consistency of its constituent elements and components as well as the factors threatening it requires a logical, coherent and systematic definition that will help us to have a correct analysis of the country’s situation once that definition is into practice. hence, research on the national security of the islamic rep...

We describe the degree to which household income is negatively associated with the prevalence of different types of disability (i.e., medical impairments) in China using data from the 2006 Second National Survey of Disabled Persons. We then calculate the extra costs of disability across different types of households and show how these costs differ by the type and severity of disability in both ...