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Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America

Klasen, Stephan (ed.); … - 2009

High inequality in incomes and assets and persistent poverty continue to plague Latin America and remain a central economic policy challenge for Latin American policymakers. At the same time, dramatically improved methods and data allow researchers to analyze these problems and how they are...

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Pension strategies in Europe and the United States

Fenge, Robert (ed.); De Menil, George (ed.); … - CESifo GmbH - 2008

Demographic realities will soon force developed countries to find ways to pay for longer retirements for more people. In Pension Strategies in Europe and the United States, leading economists analyze topical issues in pension policy, with a focus on raising the retirement age, increasing...

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Schools and the equal opportunity problem

Woessmann, Ludger (ed.); Peterson, Paul E. (contributor) - 2007

will not yield an equality of results. In this CESifo volume, leading scholars from the United States and Europe use the …

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Foreign direct investment and the multinational enterprise

Brakman, Steven (ed.); Garretsen, Harry (ed.) - CESifo GmbH - 2008

and until recently relatively unexamined in the theoretical literature. This CESifo volume fills this gap, examining the …

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Sustainability of public debt

Neck, Reinhard (ed.); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor) - 2008

sector and fiscal policies that neglect long-term considerations. The contributors to this CESifo volume consider whether the …

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Institutional microeconomics of development

Besley, Timothy (ed.); Jayaraman, Rajshri (contributor) - 2010

The narrative of development economics is now infused with discussions of institutions. Economists debate whether institutionsor other factors altogether (geography, culture, or religion)are central to development. In this volume, leading scholars in development economics view institutions from...

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Perspectives on the performance of the continental economies

Phelps, Edmund S. (ed.); Sinn, Hans-Werner (contributor) - 2011

Economists disagree on what ails the economies of continental western Europe, which are widely perceived to be underperforming in terms of productivity and other metrics. Is it some deficiency in their economic systemin economic institutions or cultural attitudes? Is it some effect of their...

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Illicit trade and the global economy

Costa, Cláudia (ed.); De Grauwe, Paul (contributor) - 2012

As international trade has expanded dramatically in the postwar period--an expansion accelerated by the opening of China, Russia, India, and Eastern Europe--illicit international trade has grown in tandem with it. This volume uses the economist's toolkit to examine the economic, political, and...

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Designing the new European Union : [this volume based on papers delivered at the second CESifo-Delphi conferences (Munich, November 2003, and Delphi, June 2004)]

Berger, Helge (ed.); Moutos, Thomas (contributor) - 2007 - 1. ed.

This volume is based on papers delivered at the second CESifo-Delphi Conferences (Munich, November 2003, and Delphi …, June 2004), which are jointly organized by CESifo and the Department of International and European Economic Studies of the … Athens University of Economics and Business. The CESifo-Delphi Conferences are organized every two years and involve a two …

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The papers in this issue were presented at the CESifo Conference 'Ten Years After: German Unification Revisited' : Berlin, 9 - 10 November 1999

Sinn, Hans-Werner (contributor); … - Conference Ten Years After: German Unification … - 2000

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