Economic Policy

One of the key components of a successful Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) is a system for monitoring the implementation of the strategy and tracking progress in poverty reduction. This volume provides lessons on the design and functioning of such...

Although Kenya has recorded some improvements in the last four years, including an increase in productivity, Kenyan firms still face an adverse business environment. The central objective of this report is to identify the main impediments to productivity...

As millions of Americans struggle to find work in the wake of the Great Recession, politicians from both parties look to regulation in search of an economic cure. Some claim that burdensome regulations undermine private sector competitiveness and job...

This book re-examines the rationale for public policy, concluding that the prevailing `public knowledge' model is evolving towards a networked or distributed model of knowledge production and use in which public and private institutions play...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975355589Author Jw SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Institute for Economic DemocracyPublisher Institute for Economic DemocracyWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595265657Author Thomas O GougeFormat PaperbackPage Count 556Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 807g

After World War II, several late-developing countries registered astonishingly high growth rates under strong state direction, making use of smart investment strategies, turnkey factories, and reverse-engineering, and taking advantage of the postwar...

Most of what is written on nuclear weapons concentrates, understandably, on the here and now: the nuclear threat is a central and continuing fact of modern history . But this is intellectually constricting, both for understanding the nuclear age and for...

How can developing nations achieve cohesive national innovation systems which provide the foundations for technological progress and economic growth? In answer to this question, Technology, Development and Democracy examines the possibility of studying...

This updated and fully revised second edition provides a comprehensive examination of issues of paramount importance for Southeast Asian economies including: * the economic implications of the 1997 Asian crisis for both older and newer members of ASEAN *...

The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics is a major new reference work which highlights the common ground between all the branches of the school while demonstrating the breadth and diversity within it. The Companion reflects the many areas where...

In most industrialized countries the tax burden of poor people has increased dramatically over the last few decades. This book analyses both the political origins of this increase and its consequences for the labour market. Achim Kemmerling illustrates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583671320Author John Bellamy FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781022893092Author Colin LeysFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984879875Author Gene SperlingFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult

Environment at the Crossroads, the theme of the 2009 Gulbenkian Conference, addresses the most urgent crisis confronting the world today, in its four essential aspects: * How deeply is the current economic malaise rooted in failing systems? Do we have...

Topics covered include Canadian food aid and the varied factors that have determined its use, the complex relationship between CIDA and Canadian non-governmental organizations, and CIDA assistance to the major multilateral institutions. There is also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865435315Author Rubin PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 320g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615691541Author Alex Hussein AhmedinejahdFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Sejucit Enterprise LLCPublisher Sejucit Enterprise LLCWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991372157Author Munir MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Mgn BooksPublisher Mgn BooksWeight(grams) 281g

New Jersey has a long history of adapting to a changing economic climate. From its colonial origins to the present day, New Jersey's economy has continuously and successfully confronted the challenges and uncertainties of technological and demographic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765337047Author Paul RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint St. Martins Press-3plPublisher St. Martins Press-3plWeight(grams) 181g

This text provides guidelines for policy makers to consider as they reconfigure the government's role in the market for health care, to promote total economic well-being.Book InformationISBN 9780844770192Author C. Eugene SteuerleFormat PaperbackPage...

The International Joint Commission oversees and protects the shared waters of Canada and the United States. Created by the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, it is one of the world's oldest international environmental bodies. A pioneering piece of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679731528Author Robert B. ReichFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615624372Author John GaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Allegiance BooksPublisher Allegiance BooksWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595128235Author Eugene L MendonsaFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Authors Choice PressPublisher Authors Choice PressWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578690896Author John JungFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996016001Author Evan M BaumelFormat PaperbackImprint Glassblock PublishingPublisher Glassblock PublishingWeight(grams) 277g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595272884Author Lionel D LylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 522g

All advanced democracies have faced the pressures of globalization, technological change, and new family forms, which have generated higher levels of inequality in market incomes. But countries have responded differently, reflecting differences in their...

Though understandably preoccupied with the immediate problems of the Great Depression, the generation of economists that came to the forefront in the 1930s also looked ahead to the long-term consequences of the crisis and proposed various solutions to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991372195Author Munir MoonFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Mgn BooksPublisher Mgn BooksWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975355596Author Jw SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Institute for Economic DemocracyPublisher Institute for Economic DemocracyWeight(grams) 327g

This work explores the likely impact of specific tax credit options on the uninsured. It analyzes the effects of a variety of forms of tax credits, especially for workers whose incomes place them above the poverty line but below the median family income...

In the past decade, power controlling the nation's taxing and spending policies has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the affluent-and exercised for the benefit of the affluent. Traditional liberal beliefs in tax equity and income...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991155408Author Lee Van HamFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Oneearth PublishingPublisher Oneearth PublishingWeight(grams) 644g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985479244Author Chima ImohFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Heritage Publishing CoPublisher Heritage Publishing CoWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983495451Author Walter LampFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Runninglight Publishing CompanyPublisher Runninglight Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...