Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. A Hidden Inequality -- Worlds of Uncertainty -- Chapter 1. Earning -- Chapter 2. Spending -- Chapter 3. Smoothing and Spiking -- How Families Cope -- Chapter 4. Saving -- Chapter 5. Borrowing -- Chapter 6. Sharing -- New Ways of Seeing...

"Public Personnel Management has served as an essential, concise reader for public personnel and human resource management courses in the fields of public administration, political science, and public policy for more than 30 years. Since the first edition published in 1991, the book has provided...

Developing countries are concerned that multilateral tariff reductions will harm their agricultural sectors because of preference erosion. The findings in this report suggest that although this may indeed be a problem for some countries in some sectors, factors other than preferential schemes...