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Poverty alleviation can be done through the social function of Baitul Maal wat Tamwil (BMT) such as the management and development of cash waqf. In this case, the government has issued several regulations to support the management and development of cash waqf. This study aims to analyze the social function of BMT Artha Amanah Bantul based on the management and development aspects of cash waqf in accordance with the Indonesian laws and regulations. This research is descriptive qualitative research with interview data collection methods conducted on the administrator of BMT and wakif. The results showed that the management and development of cash waqf in BMT Artha Amanah Bantul has included planning, organizing, leadership, and controlling, while the development of cash waqf covered management patterns, the welfare of nazir, and transparency and accountability. But some efforts to manage and develop the cash waqf undertaken by BMT Artha Amanah Bantul were still not in accordance with the applied laws and regulations. These incompatibilities have implications for the management and development of cash waqf. However, it can be concluded that the management and development of cash waqf in BMT Artha Amanah Bantul based upon the laws and regulations in Indonesia has reflected the social function of BMT.

Based on the Ramsey equation and the rejection of pure utility time discount, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change concentrates on the use of the elasticity of marginal utility eta in the intergenerational social welfare function (and not on the pure rate of time preference rho as most of the existing literature) in order to avoid excessive saving. In this paper we first show that also from the viewpoint of sustainability, it is preferable to make ethically motivated decisions on the distribution across generations by the use of eta and not of rho. In addition, we examine how different specific values of eta correspond to ethically relevant properties as 'circumstance solidarity' and 'no-envy'. Finally, we discuss the fundamental critique that has been raised against Stern's ethically based welfare theoretic approach to valuation across time. [Copyright Elsevier B.V.]

Part I Central Concepts -- Introduction -- China's social transition and social welfare reform -- Impact of economic globalization on China's social welfare policy -- Financial crisis and institutional countermeasures amid China's social welfare reconstruction -- Social stratification objectives of China's welfare construction -- Civil society and China's social welfare reform -- Social quality theory and its enlightenment to China's welfare reform -- "Third Way" theory and Chinese way of welfare reform -- Part II China's welfare system -- Development of China's elderly welfare in the transitional period -- Development of welfare for the Chinese disabled in the transitional period -- Changes on children's palace and fulfillment of child welfare in China -- Welfare reconstruction for the urban poor: taking the subsistence security system as an example -- Social mobility and urban inclusion of migrant workers