Russian government has established Agency for Strategic initiatives to promote new projects, including in business, and to support young professionals and social welfare projects in 2011.

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Of the 4 trillion yuan economic-stimulus package announced last November, 300 billion has now been reallocated from infrastructure projects to welfare schemes.

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China's local authorities are barred from borrowing directly and use such vehicles, backed by state banks, to fund welfare and public-works projects.

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California's demonstration projects promote education and self-sufficiency by offering cash incentives to teenage welfare parents who attend school and maintain a C average.

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Torfaen is one of six areas where the Department of Work and Pensions is running what it calls "demonstration projects" ahead of the introduction of the UK government's flagship welfare reform of Universal Credit in the autumn.

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Talking about their experiences at MyPublicServices were projects to ensure that those in nursing homes are looked after with dignity, to help make welfare to work programmes less adversarial and a place to report experiences with police investigations.

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