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by P. Koslowski
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
John Maynard Keynes wrote to his grandchildren more than fifty years ago about their economic possibilities, and thus about our own: "I see us free, there fore, to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue - that avarice is a vice, that the exaction...
Poverty in Haiti
Essays on Underdevelopment and Post Disaster Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Following the 2010 earthquake catastrophe, this book examines the economic and political challenges facing Haiti. It presents an overview of the country's economic history, and seeks new prospects for economic growth and development in the future.
The Rebirth of the Greek Labor Market
Building Toward 2020 After the Global Financial Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The Rebirth of the Greek Labor Market provides evidence of the macroeconomic evolution of the Greek economy, as well as current conditions in the labor market, to suggest potential areas of growth following the crisis. The contributors of this collection focus on three main issues that make the overall...
New Cohesion Policy of the European Union in Poland
How It Will Influence the Investment Attractiveness of Regions in 2014-2020
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The main objective of the book is to identify and evaluate the major changes in the Cohesion Policy of the European Union and their effects on Polish regions for the period of 2014 - 2020. The reader will learn how these changes result from the successful agreement on the Multiannual Financial Framework...
Emerging Issues in Contemporary African Economies
Structure, Policy, and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Onyeiwu focuses on how events of the twenty-first century are shaping key sectors of African economies and societies. He suggests that, compared to East Asia and Latin America, Africa still has a long way to go, despite recent improvements in performance.
Dull Disasters?
How planning ahead will make a difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In recent years, typhoons have struck the Philippines and Vanuatu; earthquakes have rocked...
Securing Africa's Land for Shared Prosperity
A Program to Scale Up Reforms and Investments
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
This is the first book on land administration and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is highly relevant to all developing countries around the world. It provides simple practical steps to turn the hugely controversial subject of "land grabs into a development opportunity by improving land governance...
Municipal Finances
A Handbook for Local Governments
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The Municipal Finance Handbook aims to help local government practitioners, particularly staff of medium and large cities, improve strategic management of municipal finances. The demands for pragmatic knowledge are fueled in part by decentralization and fiscal pressures, as transfer of responsibilities...
Urban China
Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In the last 30 years, China’s record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has avoided some of the common ills of urbanization, strains are showing as inefficient land development...
Housing Policy at a Crossroads
The Why, How, and Who of Assistance Programs
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Since Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, American housing policy has focused on building homes for the poor. But seventy-five years of federal housing projects have not significantly ameliorated crime, decreased unemployment, or improved health; recent reforms have failed to revitalize low-income neighborhoods...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
This book moves beyond technical studies of pension systems by addressing the political economy of pension reform in different contexts. It provides insights into key issues related to pension policy and its developmental implications, drawing on selected country studies in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Aid as Handmaiden for the Development of Institutions
A New Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Through comparative studies of aid-supported infrastructure projects in East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the book examines how aid could assist development processes by facilitating development of local endogenous institutions.
Natural Resources and Local Livelihoods in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
A Political Economy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
This book looks at how the benefits of economic development in the Great Lakes Region of Africa are not being equally distributed. It studies the impact of the increasing scramble for natural resources upon local livelihoods and considers the ambiguities that characterise the relationship between mining and development.
National Innovation Efficiency During the Global Crisis
A Cross-Country Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
What effect did the Great Recession have on innovation efficiency and the effectiveness of scarce resource management? Did countries with high GDPs and GDPs per capita sustain efficient innovation? How did the recession affect the time lag between innovation development and implementation? This book...