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Saving for development : how Latin America and the Caribbean can save more and better
Cavallo, Eduardo A. (ed.); Serebrisky, Tomás (ed.) - Inter-American Development Bank - 2016
Why should people - and economies - save? This book on the savings problem in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that, while saving to survive the bad times is important, saving to thrive in the good times is what really counts. People must save to invest in health and education, live...
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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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Regional Development and Public Policy Challenges in India
Bhattacharya, Rakhee (ed.) - 2015
This book emphasizes the need for experimenting with more deliberate and rigorous policy processes to attain balanced regional development, which can promote both equity and efficiency in India’s development discourse. The institutional mechanisms for dealing with regional imbalance in India...
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Asian century… on a knife-edge : a 360 degree analysis of Asia's recent economic development
West, John - 2018
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book delves into the widely held belief that the 21st century will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's rapid economic development in the post-war era and the challenges it faces in forging ahead of world leaders in the West. The...
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Market, Regulations and Finance : Global Meltdown and the Indian Economy
Khasnabis, Ratan - 2014
Chapter 1. Introduction by Ratan Khasnabis and Indrani Chakraborty (IDSK) -- Chapter 2. Monetary Policy, Financial Stability and Macroprudential Regulation: An Indian Perspective by Dilip Nachane (Emeritus Professor, IGIDR).- Chapter 3. Crisis as Paradigm Shifter: Reflections on 2008 by Subir...
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Power in Economic Thought
Mosca, Manuela (ed.) - 2018
This book offers a pluralistic vision of the way economists have dealt with the question of power in society over the last two centuries. Economists’ ideas about power are examined from political, theoretical and policy-making points of view, with additional discussion of the active...
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Power and Neoclassical Economics: A Return to Political Economy in the Teaching of Economics
Ozanne, Adam - 2016
Mainstream economics almost completely ignores the role power plays in determining economic outcomes, which means it can only provide partial explanations of the distribution of wealth and income, and of the problems associated with inequality and poverty. For many, this is a fundamental failing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397209
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The Social Capital of Entrepreneurial Newcomers : Bridging, Status-power and Cognition
Lee, Robert - 2017
'Lee takes the oft cited belief that entrepreneurial endeavour lives and dies by the quality of the networks set in play, and subjects it to a rigorous and sustained analysis. In this he not only provides the reader with an authoritative theoretical and empirical foray into how entrepreneurs can...
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Who Runs the Economy? : The Role of Power in Economics
Skidelsky, Robert (ed.); Craig, Nan (ed.) - 2016
Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following Great Recession, there has been surprisingly little change in the systems of ideas, institutions and policies which preceded the crash and helped bring it about. 'Mainstream' economics carries on much as it did before. Despite much discussion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398138
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Macht und Mikropolitik in multilingualen Teams : Sprachkompetenz als Machtquelle in multinationalen Unternehmen
Gläsener, Katharina - 2019
Katharina Gläsener betrachtet in diesem Buch Sprache als eigenständige Diversitätsdimension und präsentiert Macht in … multilingualen Teams als dynamischen Prozess. Auf Basis von zwei qualitativen Studien wird verdeutlicht, dass sich Macht in … Aushandlungen der Teamsprache Macht in multilingualen Teams als dynamischer Prozess Sprachbasierte Subgruppenbildung …
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