This collection of essays covers a diverse set of topics related to household behavior and welfare. Prices play a key role in several of the essays, particularly the distributional implications of price movements, and the effects of changes in relative prices on inequality and poverty. This book...

Chapter 1: Are Commodities a Good Hedge Against Inflation? -- Chapter 2: Precious Metals: The Bull Market that Faded -- Chapter 3- The Market’s New Gold and the Promise of Bitcoin -- Chapter 4: Final Thoughts on Commodities, Crypto and Inflation.

Part I Productivity Measurement -- 1. Productivity Measurement – Past, Present and Future -- 2. Symmetric Decompositions of Aggregate Output and Labour Productivity Growth: On Levels, (Non-) Additivity, and Misallocation -- 3. Efficiency Analysis with Stochastic Frontier Models using Popular...

Characteristics of Mining Capital -- Developing a Mining Business Case for Investment: Methods -- Marketing the Mining Business Case: Best Practice -- Raising Mining Capital: Best Practices -- Mining Capital Case Studies -- References

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Are Current Policies on Track to Eliminate Poverty? -- Chapter 3. How Mainstream Economics Works -- Chapter 4. Basic Principles to Understand Macroeconomics -- Chapter 5. Markets Alone Make No Development -- Chapter 6. Developing Countries in Global...

Introduction -- 1 What is money? -- A History of Money and Banking -- 2 Money from the very beginning -- 3 Banks enter the scene -- 4 The dawn of modern banking -- 5 The creation of a paper currency -- 6 Modern banking comes of age -- 7 The role of banks in a modern economy -- II An Analysis of...

Chapter 1. Development: Individual, Organizational and Social -- Chapter 2. Public Value: Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic, Private vs. Public -- Chapter 3. Individual Development: Richer, Healthier, or Happier -- Chapter 4. Organization Development: Love, Profit, and Responsibility -- Chapter 5. Social...

The gambling industry’s corporate structure in a partially liberalised market -- State-owned gambling operation in global competitive environment -- The establishment and strategies of gambling providers in French-speaking Africa: the case of Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) -- Where does the gambling...