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Tsunekawa, Keiichi (ed.); Todō, Yasuyuki (ed.) - 2019

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...

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Post-Industrial Development in East Asia : Taiwan and South Korea in Comparison

Chiang, Min-hua - 2018

This book purports to investigate and compare the economic development experiences in both Taiwan and South Korea in last two decades. Taiwan and South Korea’s economic development after WWII is a well-known story. However, their development after the successful post-war industrialization has...

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Rentier Capitalism : Disorganised Development and Social Injustice in Pakistan

Ahmed, Shahid - 2016

Since the early 1950s East Asia (China, Taiwan and South Korea) and South-East Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam) have, despite war and other challenges, managed to transform the lives of their people, whereas South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) has lagged...

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The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America : Decades of Change

Ystanes, Margit (ed.); Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (ed.) - Workshop on Inequality in Latin America <2015, Bergen, … - 2018

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the...

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Institutions for Social Well-Being : Alternatives for Europe

Costabile, Lilia (ed.) - 2008

This book examines the efficiency and effectiveness of economic policies in Europe, and explores the implications for social equity. It argues for an integrated approach to economic and social objectives, and discusses the ways in which welfare states and institutions can contribute to equity...

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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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Economic stress, human capital, and families in Asia : research and policy challenges

Yeung, Wei-jun Jean (ed.) - 2013

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Restoring the Middle Class through Wage Policy : Arguments for a Minimum Wage

Levin-Waldman, Oren M. - 2018

This book delivers a fresh and fascinating perspective on the issue of the minimum wage. While most discussions of the minimum wage place it at the center of a debate between those who oppose such a policy and argue it leads to greater unemployment, and those who favor it and argue it improves...

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Japans Zukunftsindustrien

Moerke, Andreas (contributor); Walke, Anja (contributor) - 2007

Grundlagen -- Gesamtwirtschaftliche Megatrends und die Aussicht auf dynamische Zukunftsindustrien in Japan … -- Identifikation von Zukunftstechnologien in Japan -- Finanzierung von Zukunftstechnologien in Japan -- Mensch und Gesundheit -- Life … Sciences und Biotechnologie in Japan -- Die japanische Pharmaindustrie -- Der Medizintechnikmarkt in Japan -- Miniaturisierung …

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Family Economics and Public Policy, 1800s–Present : How Laws, Incentives, and Social Programs Drive Family Decision-Making and the US Economy

Way, Megan McDonald - 2018

This book explores family economic decision-making in the United States from the nineteenth century through present day, specifically looking at the relationship between family resource allocation decisions and government policy. It examines how families have responded to incentives and...

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