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Formal and Informal Social Safety Nets
Growth and Development in the Modern Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
In Formal and Informal Social Safety Nets , Ashraf analyses the role of social safety nets in a time when our global economy threatens our way of life, as entire cities such as Detroit are declared bankrupt.
by Pk. Md. Motiur Rahman, Noriatsu Matsui, Yukio Ikemoto
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
The study of poverty dynamics is important for effective poverty alleviation policies because the changes in income poverty are also accompanied by changes in socioeconomic factors such as literacy, gender parity in school, health care, infant mortality, and asset holdings. In order to examine the...
National Wealth
What is Missing, Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Why are some nations wealthy and others poor? How did the wealthy nations become rich? What are the components of wealth? How should nations manage their wealth for the future? These are among the most important questions in economics. They are also impossible to answer without defining wealth, and...
The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom
Commons, contestation and craft
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize-winning work on common pool property rights has implications for some of the most pressing sustainability issues of the twenty-first century — from tackling climate change to maintaining cyberspace. In this book, Derek Wall critically examines Ostrom’s work, while...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book arises from a meeting held at Wiston House, Sussex, UK, in September 1987. The meeting brought together academic, governmental and industrial experts from eight countries to discuss the increasingly important sUbject of the relations between civil and defence technologies. It was primarily...
Globalized Poverty and Environment
21st Century Challenges and Innovative Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book reviews the key conceptions and economic theories of poverty, explains poverty-environment nexus, and finally offers innovative socio-economic and scientific geospatial solutions for the 21st Century. The book makes it possible for our readers to understand poverty thorough a concise review...
Sovereign Debt Crises and Negotiations in Brazil and Mexico, 1888-1914
Governments versus Bankers
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
This book analyzes the relative balance of bargaining power between governments and the banks in charge of underwriting their debt during the first financial globalization. Brazil and Mexico, both indebted countries that underwent major changes in reputation and negotiating power as they faced financial...
Financial Intermediation and Deregulation
A Critical Analysis of Japanese Bank-Firm Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The author develops a model of bank-firm relationships on the basis of the following general idea: Banks want to prevent moral hazard on the side of their customers. In particular they want to prevent their business customers to use bank credit for purposes different from those that have been negotiated...
Defining Democracy
Voting Procedures in Decision-Making, Elections and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
Defining Democracy looks both at the theory of why and the history of how different voting procedures have come to be used – or not, as the case may be – in the three fields of democratic structures: firstly, in decision-making, both in society at large and in the elected chamber; secondly, in...
The Good Society
A Comparative Study of Denmark and Switzerland
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Denmark and Switzerland are small and successful countries with exceptionally content populations. However, they have very different political institutions and economic models. They have followed the general tendency in the West toward economic convergence, but both countries have managed to stay...
by Lekha S Chakraborty
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
An in-depth analysis set in the context of the ongoing debate on fiscal policy vis-à-vis monetary policy
Is fiscal deficit detrimental to growth rate? Does it create macroeconomic imbalance? If so, is deficit containment a prerequisite for sustained reduction in inflation? Does fiscal deficit...
Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management
Social and Environmental Accounting in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Vol 6 of Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management aims to advance knowledge of the governance and management of corporate environmental impacts and the accounting for these, including issues related to measurement, valuation, and disclosure. It is particularly relevant for accounting...
by Takashi Unayama
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This volume examines the properties of statistics on household behavior in Japan. This work is an essential guide for all researchers who are interested in household decision making and the Japanese economy. Many household surveys are conducted in Japan reflecting the fact that household activities...
Mandate Madness
How Congress Forces States and Localities to Do its Bidding and Pay for the Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
What do drivers' licenses that function as national ID cards, nationwide standardized tests for third graders, the late unlamented 55 mile per hour speed limit, the outlawing of the eighteen-year-old beer drinker, and the disappearing mechanical lever voting machine have in common? Each is the product...