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Aftershocks: Economic Crisis and Institutional Choice

Doorne van, Ellen (contributor); … - 2009

scholars, European politicians and representatives from the world of business. They reflect on the origins of the crisis as …

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Turbulence: A Corporate Perspective on Collaborating for Resilience

Kupers, Roland (contributor) - 2014

increasing turbulence in the world. As a consequence, it becomes ever more crucial to develop cities, regions, and economies with … ideas considered here represent a corporate perspective on the broad collaborations required for a more resilient world. …

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Central Banking at a Crossroads: Europe and Beyond

Goodhart, Charles A. E. (contributor); … - 2014

This book reflects on the innovations that central banks have introduced since the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers to improve their modes of intervention, regulation and resolution of financial markets and financial institutions. Authors from both academia and policy circles explore these...

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Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development

Nkonya, Ephraim (contributor); … - 2016

This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of...

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Microfinance 3.0: Reconciling Sustainability with Social Outreach and Responsible Delivery

Köhn, Doris (contributor) - 2013

This book focuses on the achievements, current trends and further potential of microfinance to scale-up and serve many more clients with financial services that enable them to improve their living conditions. The book asks what it takes to achieve sustainable impact: to know your clients and to...

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Report on Global Environmental Competitiveness (2013)

Li, Jianping (contributor); Li, Minrong (contributor); … - 2014

This book explores the environmental competitiveness of 133 countries around the world, presenting an index evaluation … competitiveness in the light of the contradiction between world economic development and environmental protection. Global … reader will discover a sub-report and evaluation of the environmental competitiveness for 133 countries around the world …

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Living Wages Around the World: Manual for Measurement

Anker, Richard; Anker, Martha - 2017

world and determine gaps between living wages and prevailing wages, even in countries with limited secondary data. …

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Ruling capital: Emerging markets and the reregulation of cross-border finance

Gallagher, Kevin - 2014

This book demonstrates how several emerging market and developing countries (EMDs) managed to reregulate cross-border financial flows in the wake of the global financial crisis, despite the political and economic difficulty of doing so at the national level. It also shows that some EMDs,...

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Global Health Governance: Conflicts on Global Social Rights

Hein, Wolfgang; Kohlmorgen, Lars - 2005

This paper analyses the impact of new institutional structures in global health governance on the realization of social rights in poor countries. Meanwhile, health is broadly seen as an import precondition for social and economic development. This leads to an integration of the "diseases of the...

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The effects of judicial efficiency on credit market development

Ha, Hoang Lan - 2003

efficiency of judicial systems and credit market development around the world. Data from a new database, the World Bank's Doing …

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