ilość książek w kategorii: 16891
Managing the Global Economy
ISBN: 9780198289692 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The demise of the post-war era of full employment has been followed by more than 20 years of global instability. The world economy enters the 21st century with the industrial world divided between the European Union, the North American Free Trade Area, and the Pacific Rim countries. This tripolar division could either form the basis for negotiation and co-operation, or else the sort of instability witnessed in the prelude to the two world wars.
Managing the Global Economy describes the key trends in the world economy, and indicates what new institutional arrangements might be appropriate... The demise of the post-war era of full employment has been followed by more than 20 years of global instability. The world economy enters the 21st cen...
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726,94 zł |
Population and Poverty in the Developing World
ISBN: 9780198293002 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume concentrates on all aspects of the population and poverty problem: what poverty is, what effects poverty has, what creates poverty, and what can be done to eradicate it. By collecting together papers from a variety of disciplines, and by combining detailed empirical study with the necessary theoretical frameworks, the editors are able to clearly identify the most important themes and potential solutions to a problem that the world cannot afford to ignore.
This volume concentrates on all aspects of the population and poverty problem: what poverty is, what effects poverty has, what creates poverty, and wh...
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555,93 zł |
Exporting the American Model: The Postwar Transformation of European Business
ISBN: 9780198293170 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on post-war France, West Germany and Italy, Djelic examines the influence of the American corporate model. She shows how the model fared in each country, meeting various degrees of success, resistance and adaptation.
Focusing on post-war France, West Germany and Italy, Djelic examines the influence of the American corporate model. She shows how the model fared in e...
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392,27 zł |
The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China
ISBN: 9780198293309 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes and explains the remarkably large rural-urban divide in economic well-being that exists in China, tracing the root causes, present effects, and future implications for the increasingly marketized Chinese economy. It uses the rigorous analysis and empirical methodology of modern economics.
This book describes and explains the remarkably large rural-urban divide in economic well-being that exists in China, tracing the root causes, present...
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800,22 zł |
Industrial Reform and Macroeconomic Instability in China
ISBN: 9780198293408 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study focuses specifically on the giant state-owned enterprises to unravel the intriguing dynamics between industrial deregulation and inflation.
This study focuses specifically on the giant state-owned enterprises to unravel the intriguing dynamics between industrial deregulation and inflation....
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836,86 zł |
Implementing Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780198294368 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how governments in industrialized countries have engaged with the challenge of sustained development over the past decade. Analysis of initiatives undertaken by nine national governments and the European Union reveal important differences in the ways the international commitment to sustainable devolopment has been received.
This book examines how governments in industrialized countries have engaged with the challenge of sustained development over the past decade. Analysis...
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328,76 zł |
Collection and Recollections: Economic Papers and Their Provenance
ISBN: 9780198295242 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ian Little has been one of the most significant British contributors to economics in the post-war era. His contributions to Welfare Economics and Development Economics have been highly influential and well-regarded throughout the world. This book is a fascinating insight into the personal and intellectual development of Professor Little, containing both the most important articles of his working life and autobiographical chapters.
Ian Little has been one of the most significant British contributors to economics in the post-war era. His contributions to Welfare Economics and Deve...
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788,00 zł |
Rural Livelihoods and Diversity in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780198296966 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rural families in developing countries make a living by engaging in diverse activities. These range from farming, to rural trade, to migration to distant cities and even abroad. This book explores the implications of rural livelihood diversity for key topics in development studies and for poverty reduction policies. The livelihoods approach is gaining momentum, and this is the first book to set it out in detail.
Rural families in developing countries make a living by engaging in diverse activities. These range from farming, to rural trade, to migration to dist...
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402,03 zł |
The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies
ISBN: 9780198297413 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the mortality crisis in transitional economies. Contributions by demographers, economists, sociologists, epidemiologists, and health experts provide a rigorous analysis of the upsurge in mortality rates, with the aim of contributing to the launch of vigorous policies to tackle the crisis.
This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the mortality crisis in transitional economies. Contributions by demographers, economists, sociolog...
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934,57 zł |
State Capacity in East Asia: China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan
ISBN: 9780198297635 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines states and state capacity in four countries that have experienced rapid economic growth over several decades, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam It argues that while modern market forces and transnational corporations exert tremendous pressures, states still matter. The capacity of the East Asian state to adapt and develop new institutions is empirically illustrated as well as theoretically contextualized.
This book examines states and state capacity in four countries that have experienced rapid economic growth over several decades, China, Japan, Taiwan,...
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897,93 zł |
Central Control and Local Discretion in China: Leadership and Implementation During Post-Mao Decollectivization
ISBN: 9780198297772 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the decollectivization reform in China during the early 1980s in order to gauge its impact on central control and provincial discretion. The volume challenges the notion that the decision to decentralize administrative authority ipso facto produces local discretion properly keyed to local conditions. In fact, outcomes often differ from the intended goals.
This book analyzes the decollectivization reform in China during the early 1980s in order to gauge its impact on central control and provincial discre...
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1191,07 zł |
International Law and Sustainable Development: Past Achievements and Future Challenges
ISBN: 9780198298076 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by leading experts in International Law this collection of essays deals with the most recent developments in international environmental law since the UN Rio Conference on Environment and Development in 1992. It focuses on sustainable development, natural resources, Antarctica, the protection of marine environment, and the revolution in international fisheries law.
Written by leading experts in International Law this collection of essays deals with the most recent developments in international environmental law s...
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568,16 zł |
Structural Reforms Without Prejudices
ISBN: 9780199203628 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What makes economic reforms a success or a failure? Why do we witness ambivalent attitudes to reforms? Can governments implement reforms differently, without inflicting prejudice to large fringes of the population? This book explores these issues by comparing a number of reforms across a large set of countries and sectors. It aims to help readers understand the process of reform and the origins of success, and to help reformers discover new ways to implement reforms to benefit the most people.
What makes economic reforms a success or a failure? Why do we witness ambivalent attitudes to reforms? Can governments implement reforms differently, ...
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160,15 zł |
Trade, Growth, and Inequality
ISBN: 9780199204649 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining the fields of international trade theory, economic development, and economic growth, this text provides an advanced exposition suitable for graduate students as well as researchers at all levels. It combines mathematical rigour with an exceptional breadth of approaches, including institutions, history, and comparative economics. Existing research is exposited and evaluated, and numerous new results are included. The central themes of economic inequality, within and between nations, are discussed, as is convergence, or the reduction of inequality.
Distinctive features of the... Combining the fields of international trade theory, economic development, and economic growth, this text provides an advanced exposition suitable for ...
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240,77 zł |
Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined
ISBN: 9780199218110 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the way in which we seek to study and understand them continues to change over time. This accessible new book seeks to provide a guide to some of the new approaches that have been developed in the light of international initiatives to reduce poverty and the notable increases in income inequality and poverty that have occurred across many western countries in recent years. These new approaches have to some degree been facilitated by the emergence of new techniques and...
The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the way in which we se...
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446,01 zł |
Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined
ISBN: 9780199218127 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the way in which we seek to study and understand them continues to change over time. This accessible new book seeks to provide a guide to some of the new approaches that have been developed in the light of international initiatives to reduce poverty and the notable increases in income inequality and poverty that have occurred across many western countries in recent years. These new approaches have to some degree been facilitated by the emergence of new techniques and...
The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the way in which we se...
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189,46 zł |
Making Global Self-Regulation Effective in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780199234639 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As companies 'go global' they increasingly use factories and facilities spread across the world. But who regulates their activities in far flung corners of the world economy? In many sectors such as textiles and apparel, chemicals, and forestry, the answer is that companies regulate their own behavior through codes and standards which they agree among themselves. The recent growth in corporate self-regulation of labor, environmental and financial practices has attracted the attention of scholars who have detailed the number and content of self-regulatory efforts in various sectors. Missing so...
As companies 'go global' they increasingly use factories and facilities spread across the world. But who regulates their activities in far flung corne...
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265,24 zł |
Food Security: Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness
ISBN: 9780199236558 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the implications of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture for food security in poor countries? Are economic reforms and high growth rates in some countries protecting the well-being of the poor by improving the status of nutrition? Are we measuring hunger adequately? Do we need new tools and indicators? Does women's socio-economic status matter for child-health? Are targeted programmes successful in identifying and helping the truly needy?
Despite the scale of human suffering inflicted by malnutrition, the fight against world hunger has recently been overshadowed by the campaign to... What are the implications of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture for food security in poor countries? Are economic reforms and high growth rates in som...
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507,08 zł |
Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action
ISBN: 9780199242177 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Redesigning access to land to increase efficiency and reduce poverty is back on the policy agenda. This book broadens the analysis of alternative options beyond state-led redistributions to consider channels of access such as inheritance and inter-vivos transfers, intra-household and intra-community land allocations, community titling of open access resources, the break up of common property resources and the individualization of rights, decollectivization, land markets, and land rental contracts. Each of these channels of access to land is analyzed, and recommendations made to enhance their...
Redesigning access to land to increase efficiency and reduce poverty is back on the policy agenda. This book broadens the analysis of alternative opti...
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983,43 zł |
Social Provision in Low-Income Countries: New Patterns and Emerging Trends
ISBN: 9780199242191 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume analyzes the merits and limitations of both welfarist and neoliberal approaches to the provision of key social services in terms of the outcomes and sustainability of the two approaches. It proposes an alternative model of social provision, characterized by multiplicity in service delivery and financing. The strengths of this new approach are illustrated with case studies from Chile, China, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
This volume analyzes the merits and limitations of both welfarist and neoliberal approaches to the provision of key social services in terms of the ou...
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922,36 zł |