This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...

It is well known that children raised in poverty demonstrate lower academic achievement than children raised in affluence. This study extends previous studies in three ways. First, it estimates structural instead of reduced-form models of child academic attainment. Such structural models...

‘Recently, economists studying wellbeing have widened their lenses beyond income to include wealth. Here, economists Rossi and Sierminska tap new high-quality datasets to assess how wealth and homeownership vary across countries, over time, and among household types. Economists and...

Baby Boomers have left a unique imprint on US culture and society in the last 60 years, and it might be anticipated that they will also put their own stamp on retirement, the last phase of the life cycle. Yet because Boomers have not all fully retired, we cannot yet judge how they will fare as...

Eine bedeutende Zielgruppe für Industrie und Handel, auch bezüglich des Konsums von alltäglichen Gebrauchsgütern, sind die 18-29jährigen Konsumenten. Allgemeine Verhaltensschemata lassen sich auf diese jungen Konsumenten häufig nicht mehr anwenden, da es sich heute um einzelne kulturelle...

On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The self-assessed wellbeing of Scots is lower than that of...

Teil I: Bewältigung der Folgen des demographischen Wandels: Ausprägungen und Folgen des demographischen Wandels; Drei Strategien im Umgang mit den Folgen des demographischen Wandels; Wohlfahrtstheoretische Gründe für bevölkerungswirksame Politikmaßnahmen; Demographie, Wirtschaftswachstum...

This book provides a definitive account of the recent history of the International Monetary Fund, and the successes it has enjoyed since it was founded. With fascinating contributions by current and former IMF staff members, this book offers a unique insight into the workings of the organization...

In this paper we study the question of debt sustainability from a risk management perspective. The debt accumulation equation for any country involves variables that are stochastic and closely intertwined. When these aspects are taken into consideration the notion of debt sustainability is...