Inequality and Poverty: Papers from the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality 's Inaugural Meeting
ISBN: 9780762313747 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a collection of papers presented at the first meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). The Societys aims are to provide an international forum for all researchers interested in the study of economic inequality and related fields, bringing together the diversity of perspectives. The conference was held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in July 2005. Over eighty parallel sessions were offered, providing novel and interesting work from both mature scholars and as well as new PhDs. With so much quality work from which to choose, it was necessary to limit the...
This volume is a collection of papers presented at the first meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). The Societys aims a...
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Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-Based Institutions
ISBN: 9780792383123 / Angielski / Twarda / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-Based Institutions presents guidelines for evaluating the research performance of technology-based public institutions, and illustrates these guidelines through case studies conducted at one technology-based public institution, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The aim of this book is to demonstrate that a clear, more precise response to the question of performance accountability is possible through the systematic application of evaluation methods to document value.
The authors begin with a review of the... Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-Based Institutions presents guidelines for evaluating the research performance of technology-bas...
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The Diversity Advantage: Multicultural Identity in the New World Economy
ISBN: 9780813340500 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is Japan, a country that looked economically invincible a decade ago, stagnating, while long-moribund Ireland booms? What are the qualities that will ensure the continued dominance of U.S. culture, society, and business? In The Diversity Advantage, G. Pascal Zachary provides a provocative roadmap to the new civilization arising out of sweeping shifts in the world economy. He reveals through vivid examples of individuals and institutions that the key new determinants for any nation's economic, political, and cultural success are, surprisingly, a diverse population and a mongrel...
Why is Japan, a country that looked economically invincible a decade ago, stagnating, while long-moribund Ireland booms? What are the qualities that w...
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91,90 zł |
Evaluating Social Funds: A Cross-Country Analysis of Community Investments
ISBN: 9780821350621 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introduced in Bolivia a little over a decade ago, social funds have become a key community-led poverty reduction tool. A departure from traditional government-sponsored approaches, social funds encourage communities and local institutions to take the lead in identifying and carrying out small-scale investments, generally in social infrastructure such as schools, health clinics, and small-scale water supply and sanitation. The social fund model has proved to be a dynamic, replicable approach, easily adapted and scaled up in diverse countries around the world. In Latin America, Africa, the...
Introduced in Bolivia a little over a decade ago, social funds have become a key community-led poverty reduction tool. A departure from traditional go...
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116,62 zł |
Challenging Corruption in Asia: Case Studies and a Framework for Action
ISBN: 9780821356838 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combating corruption is now high on the policy agenda across Asia. However, many policymakers are handicapped by the lack of useful analytical tools. Existing models have proved inadequate in assessing the relevance and effectiveness of anti-corruption initiatives. Why do some policies and programs work in some countries, and fail in others? What accounts for their success or failure? How can policymakers develop and deliver anti-corruption strategies that work? Challenging Corruption in Asia provides an analytical framework to explore and attempt to answer these questions. Drawing on recent...
Combating corruption is now high on the policy agenda across Asia. However, many policymakers are handicapped by the lack of useful analytical tools. ...
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170,12 zł |
Controlling Currency Mismatches in Emerging Markets
ISBN: 9780881323603 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In most of the currency crises of the 1990s, the largest output falls have occurred in those emerging economies with large currency mismatches, a phenomenon that occurs when assets and liabilities are denominated in different currencies such that net worth is sensitive to changes in the exchange rate. Currency mismatching makes crisis management much more difficult since it constrains the willingness of the monetary authority to reduce interest rates in a recession (for fear of initiating a large fall in the currency that would bring with it large-scale insolvencies). The mismatching also...
In most of the currency crises of the 1990s, the largest output falls have occurred in those emerging economies with large currency mismatches, a phen...
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106,26 zł |
Gender and Development: The Japanese Experience in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9781403949448 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although Japanese economic development is often discussed, less attention is given to social development, and much less to gender related issues. By examining Japanese experiences related to gender, the authors seek insights relevant to the current developing countries. Simultaneously, the book points out the importance for Japanese society to draw lessons from the creativity and activism of women in developing countries.
Although Japanese economic development is often discussed, less attention is given to social development, and much less to gender related issues. By e...
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576,96 zł |
Fiscal Policy Surveillance in Europe
ISBN: 9781403987631 / Angielski / Twarda / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Stability and Growth Pact provides for the systematic surveillance of the fiscal policies of 25 EU member states. On this basis, this book provides an overview of themes in current fiscal policy, including the impact of ageing populations on fiscal sustainability, fiscal policy over the cycle, fiscal decentralization and expenditure reforms.
The Stability and Growth Pact provides for the systematic surveillance of the fiscal policies of 25 EU member states. On this basis, this book provide...
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384,63 zł |
Multinationals on the Periphery
ISBN: 9781403991669 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Multinational enterprises do not regard all locations as being equivalent. Smaller economies and less-developed countries are not as attractive because of a limited market size or lack of proximity to other locations. This book focuses on how multinational activity to and from peripheral economies differs from their activity in core economies.
Multinational enterprises do not regard all locations as being equivalent. Smaller economies and less-developed countries are not as attractive becaus...
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192,30 zł |
Divergent Paths in Post-Communist Transformation: Capitalism for All or Capitalism for the Few?
ISBN: 9781403996343 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the successes and failures of 27 countries post-communism transformation. Looking at life after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, the book examines and contrasts why some countries have virtually completed their transformation to a liberal polity and economy, while others lag behind.
The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the successes and failures of 27 countries post-communism transformation. Looking at life after the ...
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384,63 zł |
African Urban Economies: Viability, Vitality or Vitiation?
ISBN: 9781403999474 / Angielski / Twarda / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are Africa's most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century? This book analyzes the economies of East and Southern Africa's 'apex' cities, probing how they have altered structurally over time and their current sources of economic vitality and vulnerability at local, national and international levels. Case study chapters focusing on Johannesburg, Chitungwiza, Gaborone, Maputo, Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Nairobi, Kampala and Mogadishu shed new light on contemporary African urban prospects and problems.
Are Africa's most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century? This book analyzes the economies of Ea...
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Technology Transfer Via Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe: Theory, Method of Research and Empirical Evidence
ISBN: 9781403999528 / Angielski / Twarda / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies are suggested as one of the main channels of technology transfer to less developed economies. In Central East Europe their presence proved to be a decisive factor to economic restructuring and development. This volume is a unique guide to theory, method of research, and empirical evidence, for technology transfer via foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies. It combines the merits of a core text on technology transfer via FDI with up-to-date empirical evidence.
Foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies are suggested as one of the main channels of technology transfer to less developed economies. In Centr...
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Conflict Cooperation
ISBN: 9781405113557 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates -the rules of the game, - how institutions--both formal and informal--affect these rules, and how these rules are changed to serve competing interests. This text addresses both formal and informal institutions and the impact of alternative institutions, as well as institutional change and evolution. With its broad applications and numerous practice and discussion questions, this book will be appealing not only to students of economics, but also to those studying sociology,...
Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates -the rules of the game, - how in...
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536,35 zł |
Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
ISBN: 9781405113564 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates -the rules of the game, - how institutions--both formal and informal--affect these rules, and how these rules are changed to serve competing interests. This text addresses both formal and informal institutions and the impact of alternative institutions, as well as institutional change and evolution. With its broad applications and numerous practice and discussion questions, this book will be appealing not only to students of economics, but also to those studying sociology,...
Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates -the rules of the game, - how in...
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260,07 zł |
The Broken Mosaic: For an Economics Beyond Equations
ISBN: 9781842776339 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This cogent critique of the narrowness and moral blindness of conventional economics, and its distance from any genuine concern for people's lives, is part autobiographical reflection and part summation of a lifetime's work in developing countries. Ladislau Dowbor rejects both old-fashioned statist economics and utopian 'post-economics' ideas of social organization. Instead, he pulls together a rich mixture of detailed and practical conclusions about economic and social policy, drawing on his own work as an economic adviser in countries as diverse as Poland, Portugal, Guinea Bissau,...
This cogent critique of the narrowness and moral blindness of conventional economics, and its distance from any genuine concern for people's lives, is...
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176,61 zł |
Co-Management of Natural Resources in Asia: A Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9788791114137 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Co-management -- the sharing of responsibilities between governmental institutions and resource users -- is rapidly becoming popular in Asia. In many countries, environmental management is reformulated from exclusive state control to various kinds of joint management in which local communities, indigenous peoples, and non-governmental organizations share authority and benefits with governmental institutions. In this book, case studies of experiments with co-management in a number of countries are combined with more reflective contributions pointing to underlying assumptions and problems in...
Co-management -- the sharing of responsibilities between governmental institutions and resource users -- is rapidly becoming popular in Asia. In many ...
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340,03 zł |
Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830
ISBN: 9788791114472 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two very different cities, the one with a trading heritage dating back centuries, the other a new creation spawned by the declining fortunes of the once mighty Dutch East India Company. Melaka was an important commercial entrepot on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula long before it fell to Portugese forces in 1511, but thereafter began an extended process of decline that would continue after the Dutch conquest of the city in 1641. Penang became a significant port after 1786 when 'country traders'... This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two very different cities, the one with a trading herita... |
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Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830
ISBN: 9788791114885 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two very different cities, the one with a trading heritage dating back centuries, the other a new creation spawned by the declining fortunes of the once mighty Dutch East India Company. Melaka was an important commercial entrepot on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula long before it fell to Portugese forces in 1511, but thereafter began an extended process of decline that would continue after the Dutch conquest of the city in 1641. Penang became a significant port after 1786 when 'country traders'... This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two very different cities, the one with a trading herita... |
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153,81 zł |
Competitiveness in Small Developing Economies: Insights from the Caribbean
ISBN: 9789766401320 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Possibly no group is more conscious of the challenges created by the increasing integration of markets for capital, labor, products and information than small, developing economies. Policy makers from these economies have sought a two-track response to this integration. One response lies in increasing lobbying efforts for these economies to be accorded special or more equitable treatment in market integration discussions. The second response lies in improving the competitiveness of their economies. It is this second response that provides the subject matter for this book. It explores the...
Possibly no group is more conscious of the challenges created by the increasing integration of markets for capital, labor, products and information th...
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210,62 zł |
Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780007195312 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Those who believe Europe to be weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century sets out a vision for a century in which Europe will dominate, not America. This is the book that will make your mind up about Europe. Those who believe Europe is weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Mark Leonard, one of the UK's most visionary thinkers, argues that Europe is remaking the world in its own image. Europe only looks dead because it is seen through American eyes. But America's reach is... Those who believe Europe to be weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century sets ou... |
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