Economic Policy category: 3057 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
This book is a compendium of case studies illustrating how economic tools and techniques can be used to address a wide range of problems in the management and conservation of marine and coastal ecosystems in a developing country context. The studies, which were conducted with support from the Economy...
Banking on Reform
Political Parties and Central Bank Independence in the Industrial Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Banking on Reform examines the political determinants of recent reforms to monetary policy institutions in the industrial democracies. With these reforms, political parties have sought to draw on the political credibility of an independent central bank to cope with electoral consequences of economic...
Growth and Policy in Developing Countries
A Structuralist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that affect...
Challenges in Economic and Financial Policy Formulation
An Islamic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Challenges in Economic and Financial Policy Formulation provides an introductory, yet comprehensive, treatment of macroeconomic policies and their implementation in an Islamic-designed economic system.
by Daniel M. Hausman, Michael S. McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
This 2006 book shows through accessible argument and numerous examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists' analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public policy. Part I explores...
Economic Ideas in Political Time
The Rise and Fall of Economic Orders from the Progressive Era to the Global Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Over the past century, the rise and fall of economic policy orders has been shaped by a paradox, as intellectual and institutional stability have repeatedly caused market instability and crisis. To highlight such dynamics, this volume offers a theory of economic ideas in political time. The author...
Escape from Democracy
The Role of Experts and the Public in Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
The orthodox view of economic policy holds that public deliberation sets the goals or ends, and then experts select the means to implement these goals. This assumes that experts are no more than trustworthy servants of the public interest. David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart examine the historical record...
by Christian Nicke
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 4,0 (gut), University of Pécs (Faculty of Business and Economics), course: Business Economics, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'Almost all market competitors are firms - business organizations...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
The main objective of this book is to identify the key sources of growth which have played a significant role in Africa's recent robust growth as well as its efforts towards economic transformation. The book assesses to what extent the existing macroeconomic frameworks among African countries have...
Market Dynamics and Productivity in Developing Countries
Economic Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
To what degree are trade liberalization, productivity, and economic growth correlated? Can economic policies designed to encourage competition and curtail industry protection result in large-scale improvements, such as increased innovation and reduced unemployment?
After 20 years of economic...
Green Signals
Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The debate on whether to privilege economic growth over ecological security is passé. Environmental considerations must be at the heart of economic growth, especially for a country of 1.25 billion people destined to add another 400 million by the middle of the century. Green Signals chronicles the...
by International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
The April 2011 edition of the World Economic Outlook assesses the global prospects for economic growth in the face of policy challenges that remain unaddressed and new challenges now coming to the fore.The recovery is gaining strength, but unemployment remains high in advanced economies, and new macroeconomic...
Constructing European Union Trade Policy
A Global Idea of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
With the stagnation of the Doha Round of multilateral talks, trade liberalisation is increasingly undertaken through free trade agreements. Gabriel Siles-Brügge examines the EU's decision following the 2006 'Global Europe' strategy to negotiate such agreements with emerging economies. Eschewing the...
Canadian Agricultural Policy
The Historical Pattern
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1946
First published in 1946, this historical analysis of Canadian agricultural policy from 1600 to 1930 tests the assumption that agriculture has been Canada's basic industry, central in the economic and political life of the nation. Professor Fowke demonstrates that agricultural interests have always...