Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Regional Economic Outlook, October 2018, Sub-Saharan Africa
Capital Flows and The Future of Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
The macroeconomic outlook for sub-Saharan Africa continues to strengthen with higher growth, easing inflation, and stabilizing public debt ratios with some countries improving their fiscal balances. But there are concerns on the quality of the fiscal adjustment and underlying vulnerabilities have yet to be decisively addressed.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Whatever happened to the money supply? This book explains how the analysis of monetary and credit aggregates is undertaken at the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and (as an example of a developing country) the Bank of Tanzania. The book also explores how this analysis relates to these central...
Safeguarding the Future
Governing in an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
In an era of populist politics, Brexit, Donald Trump, 24-hour news cycles and perpetual election campaigning, how do we govern well for the future? How do we take the long view, ensuring that present-day policy decisions reflect the needs and safeguard the interests of future generations?In...
Coercion and Social Welfare in Public Finance
Economic and Political Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Although coercion is a fundamental and unavoidable part of our social lives, economists have not offered an integrated analysis of its role in the public economy. The essays in this book focus on coercion arising from the operation of the fiscal system, a major part of the public sector. Collective...
Fiscal Underpinnings for Sustainable Development in China
Rebalancing in Guangdong
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This book collects high-quality papers on issues related to the rebalancing strategy in China, new clean cities as “hubs’’, liability management, and involving the private sector, including through PPPs, with specific examples from Guangdong.
Guangdong has been at the forefront...
Creative Labour Regulation
Indeterminacy and Protection in an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
The volume is at the forefront of the academic and policy debates on effective labour regulation, offering innovative approaches to research and policy. It is an interdisciplinary response to the central challenges that face modern labour regulation and draws on contributions by leading experts in a range of disciplines.
The Reform of Europe
A Political Guide to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A powerful and progressive programme for the Eurozone
Since 2010, the eurozone crisis has roiled the continent, creating political discord and generating a long period of economic stagnation. The cyclical recovery enjoyed in 2017 is no cause for complacency. It should act as an impetus to undertake...
Economics and the Interpretation and Application of U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law
Volume I Basic Concepts and Economics-Based Legal Analyses of Oligopolistic and Predatory Conduct
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
This volume (1) defines the specific-anticompetitive-intent, lessening-competition, distorting-competition, and exploitative-abuse tests of illegality promulgated by U.S. and/or E.U. antitrust law, (2) compares the efficiency defenses promulgated by U.S. and E.U. antitrust law, (3) compares the...
by Robert P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
Greed, lack of equal opportunity, poverty and lasting inequality are the reasons more than 4-in-10 (42 percent) Americans say capitalism is not working well, a major new national survey finds. The survey, which explores Americans’ views on faith, values and the economy, also finds that only the oldest Americans believe they are better off than their parents’ generation.
In the Grip of Transition
Economic and Social Consequences of Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
This book provides a detailed picture of the equity and efficiency of economic restructuring, focusing on the two most important successor states to the Soviet Union. Analysis is based on a careful examination of micro level data, documenting the experiences of workers, households and firms.
by International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Strong fundamentals should allow Europe to weather financial turbulence relatively well. Nonetheless, growth is set to ease in 2008 in nearly all countries. Policymakers will need to deal up front with the financial market turmoil, while implementing fiscal consolidation and structural reforms, including...
by Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Caio Ferreira, Nigel Jenkinson
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
This paper reviews empirical and theoretical work on the links between banks and their governments (the bank-sovereign nexus). How significant is this nexus? What do we know about it? To what extent is it a source of concern? What is the role of policy intervention? The paper concludes with a review of recent policy proposals.
Regional Economic Outlook, May 2018, Europe
Managing the Upswing in Uncertain Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Europe continues to enjoy a strong growth spurt. Growth has firmed up in many European economies and the forecast is for more of the same. Real GDP increased by 2.8 percent in 2017, up from 1.8 percent in 2016. The expansion is largely driven by domestic demand, with investment increasingly contributing....
Basic Income Worldwide
Horizons of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
In the midst of growing criticism of current economic orthodoxies and welfare systems, basic income is growing in popularity. This is the first book to discuss existing at examples of basic income, in both rich and poor countries, and to consider its prospects in other places around the world.