Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Nonprofits in Crisis
Economic Development, Risk, and the Philanthropic Kuznets Curve
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Why do some countries have a vibrant nonprofit sector while others do not? Nonprofits in Crisis explores the theory of risk as a major mechanism through which economic development influences the nonprofit sector. Nuno S. Themudo elaborates this idea by focusing on Mexican nonprofit organizations,...
Progressive Capitalism in Britain
Pillars for a New Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The debate surrounding economic policy in the UK has recently been heavily focused on determining the appropriate response to the financial crisis and recession. There has been less discussion about the nature of the UK’s political economy.
Leaving the UK’s model of political economy unchanged...
Overcoming Inequality in Latin America
Issues and Challenges for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Latin America is faced with the challenge of achieving the Millennium Developmental Goal to halve poverty in the region by 2015. Historically, this region has experienced persistently high levels of inequality and poverty, the causes and consequences of which are analytically examined here.
Adopting...
Accepting Authoritarianism
State-Society Relations in China's Reform Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Why hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic change? This book argues that China's combination of state-led development, late industrialization, and socialist legacies have affected popular perceptions of socioeconomic mobility, economic dependence on...
Intergenerational Solidarity
Strengthening Economic and Social Ties
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
This volume analyzes intergenerational solidarity from diverse interdisciplinary angles within the social sciences. It provides analytical tools to advance research and documents how societies are adjusting to major changes that affect the core of the social fabric.
Politics, Agricultural Development, and Conflict Resolution
An In-Depth Analysis of the Moyen Bani Programme in Mali
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Using the Moyen Bani Programme as an example, External Assistance or External Interference gives an analysis of a grassroots conflict which, not foreseen at project design, lasted six years in Mali. This book provides the historical, economic, and political backgrounds that influenced the design and...
The Making of a Market
Credit, Henequen, and Notaries in Yucatán, 1850–1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
During the nineteenth century, Yucatán moved effectively from its colonial past into modernity, transforming from a cattle-ranching and subsistence-farming economy to a booming export-oriented agricultural economy. Yucatán and its economy grew in response to increasing demand from the United States...
Business-State Relations in Brazil
Challenges of the Port Reform Lobby
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
In recent years, the spotlight of international attention on Brazil has often been in the area of logistics infrastructure—for example, on its capacity to deal with the high demand expected during the World Cup and the Olympics. However, neither competitiveness nor infrastructure concerns are new...
State Practices and Zionist Images
Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Although the Israeli state subscribes to the principles of administrative fairness and equality for Jews and Arabs before the law, the reality looks very different. Focusing on Arab land loss inside Israel proper and the struggle over development resources, this study explores the interaction between...
by Dorothee Bohle, Bela Greskovits
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure out their newly capitalist future. Capitalism, they found, was not a single set of political-economic relations. Rather, they each had to decide what sort...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Progress in European market integration over the past two decades has come at the expense of growing flexibility, or differentiation, in the laws that govern the Single Market (SM) as well as the way that these laws are implemented. This volume examines how the completion of the SM has been held back...
Small States in World Markets
Industrial Policy in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
By the early 1980s the average American had a lower standard of living than the average Norwegian or Dane. Standards of living in the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, and Austria also rivaled those in the United States. How have seven small democracies achieved economic success and what...
Geopolitical Economy
The South Korean FTA Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Geopolitical Economy examines the significance and nature of free trade agreements (FTAs), the primary policy tool through which modern nations seek access to international markets and promote economic growth. The book focuses specifically on how South Korea, the world’s leader in the number and...
by Chih-Jou Jay Chen, Jianyu He, Shu Keng
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Since the Chinese economic reform was realized in the early 1990s, a significant revolution has been launched socially, economically, and politically in China. At present, China is an indispensable actor in the international arena, so that the transitionsdomestically bring about substantial influence...