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Did Globalization Aid Industrial Development In Colonial India? A Study of Knowledge Transfer in the Iron Industry
Roy, Tirthankar - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
input was craftsmanship. The condition was slow to develop in iron-smelting, where the costs of fuel, labour, capital, and …
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The Limits of Social Democracy?
Clark, Tom - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
refers to persons, Labour Party structures and Britain’s macro-economy without offering introductions. To avoid assuming … inflation and unemployment; and, the structure and purpose of the Labour Party committees cited in the paper. This should be …
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The formation of “Modern” Economics: Engineering and Ideology
Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
Economics has always had two connected faces in its Western tradition. In Adam Smith's eighteenth century, as in John Stuart Mill's nineteenth, these might be described as the science of political economy and the art of economic governance. The former aimed to describe the workings of the...
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The ‘Labour Question’ in Nineteenth Century Brazil: railways, export agriculture and labour scarcity
Lamounier, Lucia - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
This paper examines changing patterns of labour relations innineteenth-century Brazil associated with the building of … railways andexpansion of export agriculture. It addresses the 1850s-1880s period,decades when the `labour question' became a … alternative supplies of labour at a time ofincreasing agro-export production. In 1852 effective action to start thebuilding of …
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Pensions: Challenges and Choices: What next?
Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
The analysis in the Report of the Pensions Commission (UK Pensions Commission2004, henceforth referred to as the Report), is sound, the data a wonderful treasure trove, thepresentation particularly clear, and the diagnosis correct. This comment takes the Report’sanalysis as given, and sets out...
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Paying for higher education: What policies, in what order?
Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
Building on earlier work (Barr 2004a), this paper discusses the role of tuition fees in paying for teaching at universities in England, though much of the analysis applies also to the rest of the UK and to OECD countries. There is no discussion of financing research. The paper addresses three...
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Welfare Reform and LoneMothers’ Employment inthe US
Waldfogel, Jane; Danziger, Sandra K.; Danziger, Sheldon; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act(PRWORA) of 1996 represents a dramatic change in the US welfare state.One of its key goals was to move lone mothers, even those with youngchildren, from welfare to work. Early evidence suggests that, in concertwith a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695294
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How Effective is the British Government’s Attempt toReduce Child Poverty?
Piachaud, David; Sutherland, Holly - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
The new Labour Government in Britain has made the reduction of childpoverty one of its central objectives. This paper … describes the specificinitiatives involved in Labour’s approach and weighs them up in termsof their potential impact. After …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008733213
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Tightropes and Tripwires:New Labour’s Proposals and Means-Testing in OldAge
Rake, Katherine; Falkingham, Jane; Evans, Martin - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
assumptions aboutfamily formation and labour market participation and the sensitivity ofthe low paid to fluctuations in the …
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Poverty, Social Exclusion and Neighbourhood:Studying the area bases of social exclusion
Glennerster, Howard; Lupton, Ruth; Noden, Philip; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
Area-based polices have become a significant part of the new LabourGovernment’s approach to tackling social exclusion. This paper reviewsthe long-running debate about whether area-based policies can make asignificant impact on poverty and social exclusion. There is a strongtradition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008733278