Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Governance in Northern Ontario
Economic Development and Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This book analyzes economic development policy governance in northern Ontario over the past thirty years, with the goal of making practical policy recommendations for present and future government engagement with the region. It brings together scholars from several disciplines to address the policy...
Economic Foundations for Creative Ageing Policy, Volume II
Putting Theory into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Aging populations are a major consideration for socio-economic development in the early 21st century. This demographic change is mainly seen as a threat rather than as an opportunity to improve the quality of human life. Aging population is taking place in every continent of the world with Europe...
Economic Planning and Industrial Policy in the Globalizing Economy
Concepts, Experience and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
This book discusses national development planning in the context of a globalized world economy. National economic development planning, the process of defining strategic economic objectives for a country and designing policies and institutional frameworks to attain them, was popular in many countries...
Growth, Crisis, Democracy
The Political Economy of Social Coalitions and Policy Regime Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Since the global financial crisis of 2008, advanced economies have been making various efforts to overcome the economic impasse. While the contrast between the countries that have escaped from the crisis relatively quickly and those still suffering from serious problems is becoming clearer, a new...
by K. Sabeel Rahman
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
In 2008, the collapse of the US financial system plunged the economy into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. In its aftermath, the financial crisis pushed to the forefront fundamental moral and institutional questions about how we govern the modern economy. What are the values...
China and the Group 20
The Interplay between a Rising Power and an Emerging Institution
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Since the great financial crisis in 2008, the Group 20 (G20) has played an increasingly important role in global economic governance as an emerging global macroeconomic coordination mechanism. China and the Group 20 provides experts' observations on the development of the G20, G20's influence on global...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Democratic capitalism in developed countries has been facing an unprecedented crisis since 2008. Its political manageability is declining sharply. Both democracy and capitalism now involve crucial risks that are significantly more serious than those observed in earlier periods. The notion of policy...
by Jong-Wha Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Is This the Asian Century? comprises 25 articles which the author has published on the Project Syndicate website since 2012. These articles are grouped into four broad topics: (1) Growth and Structural Adjustment, (2) Economic Integration and Cooperation, (3) Business, Money, and Finance, and (4)...
by Jens Forssbaeck, Lars Oxelheim
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In recent years, the term 'transparency' has emerged as one of the most popular and keenly-touted concepts around. In the economic-political debate, the principle of transparency is often advocated as a prerequisite for accountability, legitimacy, policy efficiency, and good governance, as well as...
by Ian Drummond
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
This book offers a detailed account, based on primary source materials from Britain, Canada, and Australia, of the process by which the Empire settlement programme and the Ottawa Agreements were devised. It also traces the effects of both, placing them in the general contexts of British economic policy-making,...
The Only Game in Town
Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis, from one of the world’s most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide • With a new introduction by the author
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Building the New American Economy
Smart, Fair, and Sustainable
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In this passionate and powerful book—part manifesto, part plan of action—the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward a new consensus: sustainable development. Sustainable development is a holistic approach that emphasizes...
China’s Monetary Policy Regulation and Financial Risk Prevention
The Study of Effectiveness and Appropriateness
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This book utilizes an innovative approach combining qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the correlations between monetary policy, economic growth, inflation and asset price volatility, explores the creation of financial risk prevention systems and reaches conclusions with both theoretical...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Indonesia over the past two decades has embarked on a process of decentralization as part of a broader process of democratization, which followed earlier periods of centralized governance and authoritarian rule across the archipelago. The purpose of this book is to begin to explore the connections...