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Monetary Policy and the Oil Market
Yoshino, Naoyuki (ed.); Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad (ed.) - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016
from the real world, this book gives insight into the empirical side of energy economics. The empirical studies offer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019323
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Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economics
Gopalakrishnan, Chennat (ed.) - 2000
: the intertemporal problem; externalities and market failure; property rights; institutions and public choice; the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054108
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The Effects of Farm and Food Policy on Obesity in the United States
Alston, Julian M. - 2017
This book uses an economic framework to examine the consequences of U.S. farm and food policies for obesity, its social costs, and the implications for government policy. Drawing on evidence from economics, public health, nutrition, and medicine, the authors evaluate past and potential future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397171
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Economic Analysis of Suicide Prevention : Towards Evidence-Based Policy-Making
Sawada, Yasuyuki; Matsubayashi, Tetsuya; Ueda, Michiko - 2017
This book examines the causes and consequences of suicide from the perspective of economics. The approach here differs from those in medical, psychiatric, epidemiological, and sociological studies of suicide and is thus novel in a way that highlights the importance of economic and institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397492
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Economic and Environmental Impact of Free Trade in East and South East Asia
Mukhopadhyay, Kakali - 2010
some of the fastest growing economies of the world. A global economic model was used to undertake the analysis. A rare … researchers and policy makers, and world bodies, such as the WTO, ADB and the World Bank, will benefit from the book …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521323
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The Quest for Subsidy Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region : A Microsimulation Approach to Policy Making
Verme, Paolo (ed.); Araar, Abdlekrim (ed.) - 2017
This book is an analysis of energy and food subsidies in the MENA region between 2010 and 2014. Using the World Bank …’s proprietary SUBSIM model, the book studies the distribution of subsidies and the simulation of subsidy reforms across eight … benefits from existing subsidies, while the simulations of subsidy reforms provide information on the outcomes of the reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397950
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Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience' : A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management
Surminski, Swenja (ed.); Tanner, Thomas (ed.) - 2016
Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters, and perceive the return on investment as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397231
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The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume IV : The Private and Social Costs of Overeating and their Remedies
Joshua, John - 2017
This title offers an in-depth analysis of the psychological causes and consequences of, and proposed interventions for over-eating. The author examines the history of obesity and its distribution by social class and geography, the environmental effects of overconsumption and economic remedies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397298
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The Poverty of Slavery : How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy
Wright, Robert E. - 2017
history of slavery around the world, from prehistory through the US Antebellum South to the present day, Wright illustrates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397501
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Economics of the Labour Market : Unemployment and the Costs of Unemployment
Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2016
The global crisis has led to dramatic increases in unemployment rates over most of the countries of the OECD. This book provides alternative explanations of this phenomenon. Junankar begins with surveys of the labour market: labour demand, labour supply, and labour force participation. He argues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014021119