Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Indian economy is positioned as Sixth in terms of the nominal GDP and is considered as the third largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP). The years, 2015 and 2016 has played a vital role in Indian economic development as during this period Indian World Bank’s expansion and growth was observed.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Nearly ten years after the Asian Financial Crisis, financial turmoil has reappeared – this time it is ravaging the world's wealthiest countries and dragging the global economy along for the ride. It forces one to reflect on the last major financial crisis to afflict the global economy, and...
One Market Under God
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go '90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone.
Frank's target is "market populism"--the widely held belief that markets are...
The Path of Labor
Theme: Christianity and The World’s Workers
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Those who labored with such desire and earnestness for the selection of a theme for the textbooks for 1918–1919, that should present not only a vital but a paramount issue to the church at this time when only great realities and issues claim serious thought, chose better than they knew when they...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Poland’s accession to the EU in 2004 created new challenges and opportunities for its transport service firms operating within the framework of the EU Single Market. This book evaluates the market structure in the Polish road, maritime, rail and air transport sectors and compares them to other EU...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Chinese culture has a very long and extraordinary tradition. With China’s rapid economic growth and a population of more than one billion people, China has become a very important market for many companies. In order to conduct business in a particular country, it is necessary to also understand...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Academics, policy-makers and practitioners from Africa and beyond document new ways of thinking about issues concerning governance and revenue flows in mining activities in Ghana, Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Global Governance and Transnationalizing Capitalist Hegemony
The Myth of the 'Emerging Powers'
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book is a critique of claims regarding how emerging economies are supposedly rewriting the rules of global governance and ushering in alternative models to neoliberal orthodoxy. It argues that such assumptions are abstractions that ignore both the transnationalizing nature of the global...
99 to 1
How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Over the past thirty years, we’ve seen a radical redistribution of wealth upward to a tiny fraction of the population. Here, activist Chuck Collins explains how it happened and marshals wide-ranging data to show exactly what the 99/1 percent divide means in the real world and the damage it causes...
by Dawit Guta
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This study explores issues of biomass energy use in relation to household welfare and it assesses Ethiopia’s future energy security with a focus on long-term model of the energy sector, and institutional arrangements required for decentralized energy initiatives. Data from Ethiopian rural households...
Politik und Wirtschaft
Ein integratives Kompendium
Language: German
Release Date: December 21, 2017
In diesem Kompendium führen 40 Politik- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler aus insgesamt 25 Hochschulen gemeinsam in die wichtigsten Bereiche der Politischen Ökonomie ein und beleuchten die verschiedenen Teilbereiche jeweils aus Sicht beider Disziplinen. Damit wird in diesem Handbuch erstmals ein explizit...
by Oscar Luis Rigiroli
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book is a thorough description of the foundations of political economy created by Marx, its philosophical foundations, its objectives, its methodology, and the development of his ideas starting from the theory of the value.
It discusses the role that Marx gives to capitalism in the full...
Taxation, Responsiveness and Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Dynamics of Tax Bargaining
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
It is increasingly argued that bargaining between citizens and governments over tax collection can provide a foundation for the development of responsive and accountable governance in developing countries. However, while intuitively attractive, surprisingly little research has captured the reality...
Mobilizing Resources in Latin America
The Political Economy of Tax Reform in Chile and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
This book seeks to expand analytically on standard institutionalist accounts of taxation by bringing into the explanatory framework the importance of institutional strength (not just design) as well as informal institutions (in addition to formal ones) for policy reform.