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Since the end of World War II, the Japanese economy has seen rapid changes and remarkable progress. It has also experienced a bubble economy and period of prolonged stagnation. The book seeks to address three major questions: What kind of changes have taken place in the...
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Springer
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2010-08-05
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Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer of Beijing. Not so, writes Edward Steinfeld. In this fascinating book, Steinfeld asserts that China's growth actually enhances Western...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-08-05
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Tommy Bengtsson Population ageing, the shift in age distribution towards older ages, is of immense global concern. It is taking place to a varying degree all over the world, more in Europe and some Asian countries, less on the African continent. The worldwide share of...
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Springer
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2010-08-02
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Demographic Research Monographs
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Population growth slowed across the world in the last decades of the 20th century, changing substantially our view of the future. The 21st century is likely to see the end to world population growth and become the century of population aging, marked by low fertility and...
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Springer
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2010-08-02
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International Studies in Population
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This book explores new forms of private, mutual municipal, public-private and 'reverse' state funding of public investments, co-payments and shared contributions, vouchers, and pooled public risk-financing. It includes case studies taken from the Nordic countries, UK,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-07-30
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Despite a gradual and sustained decline in the contribution of agriculture to the economies of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the sector remains socially and politically important. Although agriculture accounts...
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Springer
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2010-07-27
Collection :
Studies in Productivity and Efficiency
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The Fifth Enlargement that took place in 2004 and 2007 was a milestone in the history of the European Union. Not only because of the large number of acceding countries but also because of their recent political and economic experience. Ten of them had undergone a...
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Springer
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2010-07-23
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The Pursuit of Justice is a realistic yet hopeful analysis of how the law works in practice rather than in theory.The multi-chapter discussion recognizes that decision makers in the law - judges, lawyers, juries, police, forensic experts and more - respond...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-06-07
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Business is one of the major power centres in modern society. The state seeks to check and channel that power so as to serve broader public policy objectives. However, if the way in which business is governed is ineffective or over burdensome, it may become more...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-02-25
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Business is one of the major power centres in modern society. The state seeks to check and channel that power so as to serve broader public policy objectives. However, if the way in which business is governed is ineffective or over burdensome, it may become more...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-02-25
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Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid packages, support...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-11-19
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Moving beyond the 'post-Washington consensus', this book shifts the focus of development policy debates away from expenditures and austerity and towards revenues and resources. The book explores the potential and the developmental impact of different categories of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-10-09
Collection :
Social Policy in a Development Context
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Agriculture has a small, and declining, importance in employment and income generation within the EU, but a political importance well beyond its economic impact. The EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) has often been the source of conflict between the EU and its trade...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-09-03
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Both studies of political power and Europeanization studies have tended to neglect central banks. As the age of the euro reaches its 10th anniversary, it is timely to reflect on what it means for central banks, which have been at the forefront of the establishment of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-07-30
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The book provides an up-to-date analytical and empirical treatment of some important interactions between paid and unpaid labour and the social economy.The emphasis on the motivations for paid and unpaid labour, and on how these factors contribute to efficiently...
Editeur :
Physica
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2009-04-30
Collection :
AIEL Series in Labour Economics
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Economic sanctions are increasingly important instruments of regulatory and foreign policy. This book provides a detailed study of the post-9/11 financial sanctions programmes in the US and Europe, examining the key regulatory and legal issues that confront businesses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-28
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This volume seeks to facilitate such exposure by drawing together into a convenient collection the fine articles on CBA and its application that have appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM).
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-22
Collection :
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Classics
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Post-conflict economic reconstruction is a critical part of the political economy of peacetime and one of the most important challenges in any peace-building or state-building strategy. After wars end, countries must negotiate a multi-pronged transition to peace:...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-09-25
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Post-conflict economic reconstruction is a critical part of the political economy of peacetime and one of the most important challenges in any peace-building or state-building strategy. After wars end, countries must negotiate a multi-pronged transition to peace:...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-09-25
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In this important new book, Christopher Pollitt, one of the leading researchers in public policy and management, argues that we are guilty of neglecting a fundamental dimension of both the practice and study of contemporary public policymaking and management: that of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-05-01
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