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People in OECD countries are healthier than ever before, as shown by longer life expectancy and lower mortality for diseases such as cancer. At the same time, total spending on health care now absorbs over 9% of GDP on average in the OECD. Achieving value for money in the health care sector is an...

This small book outlines steps parents can take to teach children how to be sex offenders. It's easy. This part is satire. Next I discuss what parents and a concerned public can do to prevent children from becoming sex offenders. Prevention is hard. People must really want to do it. Apparently,...

Life can be discouraging. But taking charge can be empowering! By pinpointing what it is you're unhappy with -- and making goals to turn things around -- you can create a life you want. This short e-book focuses on the changes you may want to make when it comes to your impact on the world, and offers...

This text uses an innovative approach to the dynamics of labour's decline and proposes policy initiatives necessary for its revitalization. The book emphasises the need for restructuring of capitalism on a global scale and challenges traditional economic and industrial relations wisdom.

Liberals worldwide invoke Scandinavia as a promised land of equality, while most conservatives fear it as a hotbed of liberty-threatening socialism. But the left and right can usually agree on one thing: that the Nordic system is impossible to replicate elsewhere. The US and UK are too big, or too...

Dicen que la deuda es como una droga. La primera década del sigo XXI ha estado marcada por una borrachera de deuda en la que todos hemos participado. nos hemos atiborrado de ella porque hemos sido incapaces de dar la espalda a los efectos placenteros que nos daba a corto plazo. Ahora, el panorama...

This study was written before the new Local Government system was introduced in Pakistan in 2001. It analyzes various components of a City District and proposes how three provincial capitals might be converted into City Districts. The geographical and other features of Quetta, Peshawar and Lahore...

Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international...

This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Devra Davis in her book “The Secret History of the War on Cancer”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace in any case Devra...

This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Lou Dobbs in his book “War on the Middle Class, How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back”. This summary offers a concise overview of the...

The integration of the children of immigrants – both those born in the host country (the “second generation”) and those who arrived young enough to be educated in the host country – is of growing policy relevance for OECD countries. This group is entering the labour market in ever larger numbers,...

This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Arnold S. Relman in his book “A Second Opinion: Rescuing America’s Health Care”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace in...

Rome's wars delivered great wealth to the conquerors, but how did this affect politics and society on the home front? In Power and Public Finance at Rome, James Tan offers the first examination of the Roman Republic from the perspective of fiscal sociology and makes the case that no understanding...

A primer in plain English that explains how health insurance will work under the new legislation and how it will affect your care and your choices going forward. Now that "Obamacare" (as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is popularly known) has become the law of the land,...