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Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb (ed.); Acharya, Shabd S. (ed.); … - 2007

This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment

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The Many Dimensions of Poverty

Kakwani, Nanak (ed.); Silber, Jacques (ed.) - 2007

With representatives from different disciplines stressing the central importance of freedom in analyzing poverty and emphasizing some important policy issues, this book offers a view of poverty that will orient research in directions previously neglected, and help those in charge of implementing...

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Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context : Uncovering the Gendered Structure of ‘the Social’

Razavi, Shahrashoub (ed.); Hassim, Shireen (ed.) - 2006

This book illustrates why both academic research and policy thinking need to factor-in gender hierarchies and structures if they are to address some of the key challenges of contemporary societies: the widespread informality and insecurity of paid work and the crisis of care

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South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis

Lafleur, Jean-Michel (ed.); Stanek, Mikołaj (ed.) - 2017

Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. EU Migration and the Economic Crisis: Concepts and Issues: Jean-Michel Lafleur and … -- Chapter 10. UK: large-scale European migration and the challenge to EU free movement: Alessio D’Angelo and Eleonore Kofman … EU Citizens in Times of Crisis: Jean-Michel Lafleur and Mikolaj Stanek …

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Promoting Social Dialogue in European Organizations : Human Resources Management and Constructive Conflict Management

Euwema, Martin - 2015

This volume focuses on describing the social dialogue system in organizations from an Human Resources Management perspective. Based on the NEIRE model for industrial relations, key factors are determined contributing to creative social dialogue in European organizations. Actual data from surveys...

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New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy : A Roadmap for Usage and Exploitation of Big Data in Europe

Cavanillas, José María (ed.); Curry, Edward (ed.); … - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016

In this book readers will find technological discussions on the existing and emerging technologies across the different stages of the big data value chain. They will learn about legal aspects of big data, the social impact, and about education needs and requirements. And they will discover the...

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Investing in resource efficiency : the economics and politics of financing the resource transition

Flachenecker, Florian (ed.); Rentschler, Jun (ed.); … - 2018

This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments. By contributing a wide range of empirical evidence, practitioners' insights, and policy perspectives, this book carefully examines the role of...

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The continuing evolution of Europe

Büttner, Thiess (ed.); Ochel, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2012

countries. Today’s EU constitutes an upper tier of government that affects almost every level of policymaking in each of its …, and this book surveys key economic challenges faced by the EU. - Prominent European economists examine such topics as the … aging, and worker mobility within the EU; and improving the EU’s institutional framework by reassigning responsibilities …

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Industrial policy for national champions

Falck, Oliver (ed.); Gollier, Christian (contributor); … - 2011

Governments around the world are deeply divided about the proper role of industrial policy, with some politicians arguing for hands-off governance and others supporting government intervention to promote ""national champions""-- firms that receive government support for both political and...

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Privatization experiences in the European Union

Köthenbürger, Marko (ed.); Sinn, Hans-Werner (contributor) - 2006

EU countries, evaluating the real outcomes of privatization policies in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany …

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