Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Venezuela Before Chávez
Anatomy of an Economic Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest countries in the world, ahead of countries such as Greece, Israel, and Spain. Between 1978 and 2001, however,...
A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Politics, Economies, and Environments in Northern Sichuan
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
A Change in Worlds explores the environmental, economic, and political history of the Sino-Tibetan Songpan region of northern Sichuan from the late imperial Qing Dynasty to the early 21st century. A historically Tibetan region on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, with significant Han and Muslim...
by Yi Pan
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This comprehensive reference views China’s welfare system through a cultural-historical lens to integrate its complex story into the global study of welfare. Focusing on the mainland’s vast, mainly rural population and its long and complicated history, it analyzes rural welfare from the imperial...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Since the events of 2011, most Arab countries have slipped into a state of war, and living conditions for the majority of the working population have not changed for the better. This edited collection examines the socioeconomic conditions and contests the received policy framework to demonstrate that workable alternatives do exist.
Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture
Femininity, Masculinity and Recession in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
From the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precariat in Girls, this book explores how transatlantic visual culture has represented and reconstructed ideas of gender in times of financial crisis. Drawing on social, cultural and...
by John M. Braden
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Because the Future Matters: Let’s Stop Letting Modern Economics and Our Energy Addiction Ruin Almost Everything! takes as its starting point the importance of the fundamental role that energy in one form or another has always played—and will always play—in the economic life of human beings.Very...
Defusing Democracy
Central Bank Autonomy and the Transition from Authoritarian Rule
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Many of today's new democracies are constrained by institutional forms designed by previous authoritarian rulers. In this timely and provocative study, Delia M. Boylan traces the emergence of these vestigial governance structures to strategic behavior by outgoing elites seeking to protect their interests...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
This book reviews the current trends and challenges of regional integration and trade in Africa. It provides valuable policy recommendations aimed at stimulating the debate among the government, private sector and development community on the ways to promote regional trade for Africa's economic development.
State Reform and Development in the Middle East
Turkey and Egypt in the Post-Liberalization Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The economies of Turkey and Egypt, remarkably similar until the early 1980s, have since taken divergent paths. Turkey has successfully implemented a policy of export led industrialisation whilst Egypt’s manufacturing industry and exports have stagnated.
In this book, Amr Adly uses extensive...
Self-Governance in Science
Community-Based Strategies for Managing Dangerous Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Commercial and academic communities use private rules to regulate everything from labor conditions to biological weapons. This self-governance is vital in the twenty-first century, where private science and technology networks cross so many borders that traditional regulation and treaty solutions...
by Howard Davies
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdom on how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check. Since then a wave of reform and re-regulation has crashed over banks and markets. Financial firms are regulated as never before.
But have these measures been...
by Matthias Meier
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,7, University of Westminster (University of Westminster), course: Modern Business Cultures in the Age of Globalisation, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Today everybody talks...
Open Data in Southeast Asia
Towards Economic Prosperity, Government Transparency, and Citizen Participation in the ASEAN
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
This book explores the power of greater openness, accountability, and transparency in digital information and government data for the nations of Southeast Asia. The author demonstrates that, although the term “open data” seems to be self-explanatory, it involves an evolving ecosystem of complex...
by P.K. Rao
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
This short book integrates the imperatives of public debt sustainability with those of socioeconomic sustainability in the context of budget austerity measures. It is argued that poverty, inequality and unemployment problems should be integral aspects of policy frameworks for austerity and fiscal...