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This book concerns EU Cohesion Policy and the economic convergence of underdeveloped regions in Italy and Spain from the first programming period to the present: it investigates the political and institutional factors that determine the success or failure of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-20
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This book examines the impacts of fiscal decentralization reforms on the efficiency of local governments in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. By offering a comparative perspective and by applying econometric methods and regression models, it analyses various...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-05
Collection :
Public Administration, Governance and Globalization
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In this memoir about overcoming adversity in America, the U. S. Senator responsible for creating "opportunity zones" explains how hard work and community growth can drive businesses and end poverty.Senator Tim Scott knows adversity. As the son of a single mother from...
Editeur :
Center Street
Parution :
2020-04-14
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Largely privately funded with relatively little public regulation, the United States healthcare system is both expensive and inefficient, providing poor care to large parts of the population. For decades, Americans have wrestled with how to fix their broken healthcare...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-03-23
Collection :
The Case For
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The book brings to the reader a set of political and social narratives woven around people’s resistance against big dams, mining and industrial projects, in short, displacement and dispossession in Odisha, India. This saga of dispossession abounds with stories and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-20
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This book addresses the factors that have led to the lackluster economic performance of the oil MENA region, despite the wealth of its vast natural resource. It offers a radical policy recommendation as a way out. Using data from a wide variety of sources, it analyzes...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-19
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This book provides a blueprint for the allocation of public expenditures “in” and “for” agriculture at the dis-aggregated state level and suggests a reorientation in favour of disadvantaged regions where the marginal returns on additional investments would be...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-19
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What we count matters - and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if you’re not counted, you don’t count. Alex Cobham argues that systematic gaps in economic and demographic data not only lead us to understate a wide...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-03-19
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This book combines modern evolutionary economics and classical political economy. Modern evolutionary economics with its pluralistic and contingent view of reproduction does not presuppose equilibrium or harmonious reproduction. A society that consists of multiple...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-03-18
Collection :
Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
International banking standards are...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-12
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
International banking standards are...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-12
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This book discusses the role of electronic governance in least developed countries (LDCs) within the context of public finance management and service delivery keeping in view of the experience of Afghanistan. The book includes examples of good practices in electronic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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The idea that the people have a right to shape political decisions through democratic means is widely accepted.The same cannot be said of the decisions that impact on our everyday economic life in the workplace and beyond. Andrew Cumbers shows why this is wrong, and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-03-06
Collection :
The Case For
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This book is an analysis of the developments associated with the Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) five years after Xi Jinping announced both the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the 21st Maritime Silk Road (21MSR). Together, these two dimensions constitute the B&RI,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-03
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This book builds on the highly successful Geography of Beer: Regions, Environment, and Society (2014) and investigates the geography of beer from two expanded perspectives: culture and economics. The respective chapters provide case studies that illustrate various...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-03-02
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In this volume, the authors reflect on the question “what is socialism” as it pertains to today’s economy. There is particular emphasis on democratic socialism models as a potential alternative to classic authoritarian socialism. A number of topical questions are...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-02-27
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“This is a radical, thought-provoking book, which brings together debates that are often kept separate about basic income and 'sovereign money'. You might not agree with all of it, but it makes big arguments and does so with constructive intent: that of proposing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-02-20
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The idea that healthcare and education should be provided as universal public services to all who need them is widely accepted. But why leave it there? Why not expand it to more of life’s essentials? In their bold new book, Anna Coote and Andrew Percy argue that this...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-02-13
Collection :
The Case For
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In diesem essential ergründet der Autor, was man sich von der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft verspricht, warum die Soziale Marktwirtschaft nicht „sozial“ ist und Lohnsteigerungen nicht helfen, sie sozialer zu machen. Dabei treibt ihn vor allem der Wunsch nach mehr...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2020-01-31
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This book explores the complex and ever-changing relationship between the European Union and its member states. The recent surge in tension in this relationship has been prompted by the actions of some member state governments as they question fundamental EU values and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-22
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