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Europe, globalization and the Lisbon Agenda
Rodrigues, Maria João (contributor) - 2009
The Lisbon Agenda aims to prepare Europe for globalization by updating European policies for research, innovation, competition, trade, employment, education, social protection, environment and energy at both the European and national levels. Designed to inspire the new cycle of the Lisbon Agenda...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851915
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The political economy of welfare reform in the United States
Reintsma, Mary - 2007
Social welfare policy -- Comparative social welfare policy -- Traditional public interest model -- The public choice perspective -- Government and its bureaucracy -- The origins of the new welfare law -- The genesis of the new welfare law -- Institutional analysis -- An econometric analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420086
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Inequality, consumer credit and the saving puzzle
Brown, Christopher - 2008
Providing much needed context for current events like the sub-prime mortgage crisis, this timely book presents a vision of an economy evolved to greater dependence on consumer credit and analyzes the trade-offs and risks associated with it. While synthesizing the Keynesian theory of consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850819
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The economic approach to environmental policy : the selected essays of A. Myrick Freeman III
Freeman, A. Myrick - 1998
The Economic Approach to Environmental Policy draws together a selection of Myrick Freeman's most influential papers on key analytical and policy issues in the field of environmental economics. The papers collected in this significant volume cover a wide range of topics pertinent to the study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473964
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Human development in the era of globalization : essays in honor of Keith B. Griffin
Boyce, James K. (contributor); Griffin, Keith B. (contributor) - 2006
pt. 1. Perspectives on Chinese development -- pt. 2. Agriculture and rural poverty -- pt. 3. Dimensions of human … development -- pt. 4. Globalization and inequality -- pt. 5. Strategies for reducing poverty and inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851660
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The Asian 'poverty miracle' : impressive accomplishments or incomplete achievements
Wan, Guang Hua (contributor); Silber, Jacques (contributor) - 2016
Introduction / Jacques Silber and Guanghua Wan -- 1. An Asian poverty line? issues and options / Stephan Klasen -- 2. A … poverty line contingent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R …. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, and Jacques Silber -- 3. Concepts and measurement of vulnerability to poverty and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419895
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Economic growth and distribution : on the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
Salvadori, Neri (ed.) - 2006
Economic Growth and Distribution isolates and compares the logical structures and methodological underpinnings underlying the relationship between economic growth and distribution. It carries out an in-depth analysis of a wide range of issues connected with growth theory considered from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473998
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Innovation in public sector services : entrepreneurship, creativity and management
Windrum, Paul (contributor); Koch, Per M. (contributor) - 2008
This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852048
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Long-run growth, social institutions and living standards
Opocher, Arrigo (contributor); Salvadori, Neri (contributor) - 2009
tradition / Mario Pomini -- 7. Education and poverty in a Solow growth model / Thomas Bassetti -- 8. Child mortality decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851033
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Applied benefit-cost analysis
Schmitz, Andrew (contributor); Zerbe, Richard O. (contributor) - 2008
Benefit-cost analysis reduces all of the impacts of a proposed policy change to a common unit of measurement. It is used in a wide variety of fields including agriculture, life and health, transportation and the environment. In this single volume the editors, both leading scholars in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852260