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by Yuhong Du, Zhijun Sun
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
This book covers research on the financing of compulsory education in rural China and provides a highly informative read for readers who are interested in the issue of financing compulsory education in poor areas. Basing on data collected from field studies in 12 counties in 4 provinces around China,...
Betrayed
Politics, Power, and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Betrayed takes a new approach to the subject of global poverty, one that doesn't blame the West but also doesn't rely on the West for solutions. Betrayed puts the poor themselves at center stage, and shows how their entrepreneurial energies are shackled by political and social discrimination. When...
Delivering Sustainable Growth in Africa
African Farmers and Firms in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The purpose of this book is to fill the lack of micro evidences on a structural change of African producers. By collecting studies on single industries, we attempt to demonstrate firms' and farmers' responses to the recent economic trend such as growth of demand, emergence of FDI and improvement in infrastructure.
by Otaviano Canuto, Danny M. Leipziger
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
The Great Recession of 2009-11 was not simply a severe business cycle slowdown or even a combined credit, housing, and asset market collapse. It left permanent scars, especially on the advanced economies. In its wake, policy makers must navigate uncharted economic territory where 'business as usual'...
Beyond the Grave, Revised and Updated Edition
The Right Way and the Wrong Way of Leaving Money to Your Children (and Others)
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This expert, one-of-a-kind handbook shows you how to
ensure that your inheritance instructions will be carried out the way you want them to be;
protect your children's inheritance from creditors, ex-spouses, addictions, tax troubles, mismanagement, squandering, and other risks of loss;
prevent...
by Dale E. Lehman, Dennis Weisman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 envisioned a competitive free-for-all in the U.S. telecommunications industry with removal of barriers to entry in local telecommunications markets and the lifting of the artificial restrictions that kept the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) out of the interLATA...
Moneta e Società
Le conseguenze sociali delle politiche monetarie
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 26, 2013
In questo libro si affrontano le diverse teorizzazioni della moneta (privata; statale; avente valore intrinseco; bancaria) e gli effetti che derivano dalla loro circolazione e dalla loro interazione. La politica monetaria, che regola questa circolazione, è il primo tassello per favorire l’attività...
Economia della Valuta Moderna
(Soft Currency Economics)
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 25, 2016
“La prima pubblicazione di questo libro è stata un risultato diretto di ciò che io chiamo “Italian trade”, che ho fatto oltre 20 anni fa. Segna il riconoscimento esplicito della moneta come un (semplice) monopolio pubblico, e rivela il funzionamento delle operazioni monetarie reali....
The Inverting Pyramid
Pension Systems Facing Demographic Challenges in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Europe’s pension systems –among the most celebrated features of its social welfare model— face tremendous challenges. With only 11 percent of the world’s population, Europe spends about 60 percent of global outlays on social protection, largely in pensions. In many countries, pension rules have...
The Australian Trade Practices Act 1974
Proscriptions and Prescriptions for a More Competitive Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book presents a collection of papers which evaluate the achievements of the Australian Trade Practices Act 1974 in making Australian markets more competitive. The contributors have all played major roles in Australian and New Zealand antitrust actions, either as expert economic witnesses, as...
China’s Macroeconomic Outlook
Quarterly Forecast and Analysis Report, September 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
This book is a quarterly forecast and analysis report on the Chinese economy. It is published twice a year and presents ongoing results from the “China Quarterly Macroeconomic Model (CQMM),” a research project at the Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR) at Xiamen University. Based on the CQMM...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
It has taken a long time to make this book. Many initial drafts of the chapters published in this book were presented in November 2000 during a two-day conference on Interactive governance: towards a post-parliamentary democracy held in Enschede (The Netherlands). The Netherlands Institute of Governance...
Politics as a Peculiar Business
Insights from a Theory of Entangled Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Economists typically treat government as something outside the business realm, a sort of “Lord of the Manor”. Richard Wagner argues that this is the wrong approach and can ultimately be destructive to capitalism and to society.
by Sebastian A. Tideman
Language: German
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Diese Studie verknüpft die Kapitalanlageentscheidungen privater Haushalte im internationalen Rahmen mit der Konvergenz von Rechnungslegungssystemen. Hierzu betrachtet der Autor zunächst die Investitionsentscheidungen privater Investoren aus einer mikroökonomischen Perspektive, um darauf aufbauend...