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This pioneering book explores the meaning of the term “Black social economy,” a self-help sector that remains autonomous from the state and business sectors. With the Western Hemisphere’s ignoble history of enslavement and violence towards African peoples, and the strong anti-black racism...
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This edited collection provides a comprehensive examination of multidimensional poverty for a wide variety of economies and societies, with a general focus on multidimensional poverty in developed countries, where poverty is often overlooked. Arguing that income- and consumption-based poverty...
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This edited collection brings together leading theoretical and applied research with the intent to design a sustainable global financial future. The contributors argue that our world cannot move toward sustainability, address climate change, reverse environmental degradation, and improve human...
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Menschenrechte zwischen Globalisierung und Wirtschaft -- Menschenrechtsschutz in der Wirtschaft … Globalisierung und Wirtschaft • Menschenrechtsschutz in der Wirtschaft • Menschenrechtsverletzungen entlang der Wertschöpfungskette …
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This book examines economic inequality and social disparity in Iran, together with their drivers, over the past four decades. During this period, income distribution and economic welfare were affected by the 1979 Revolution, the eight-year war with Iraq, post-war privatization and economic...
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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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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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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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environment, the nexus of monetary, exchange rate and trade policies, and globalization. The book explains how these issues have … Monetary Policy: Past and Prospective -- 8. Trade Imbalances and Jobs: A Macro Perspective -- Part IV Globalization and … Financial Markets -- 9. Globalization and Widening Income Inequality -- 10.Economic and Market Prospects for the Medium Term …
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This book presents stimulating new perspectives on three key sets of issues: a fair globalization, the policies that …. Examples include globalization and national inequality, globalization and policies for inclusive growth in developing countries …, Growth and Inequality -- Globalization and National Income Inequality: Observations and Lessons from the U.S. Experience …
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