Public Sector Economics
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The Global Urban Competitiveness Report – 2010
Pengfei Ni, Peter Karl Kresl
The Global Urban Competitiveness Report – 2010 is an empirical study of the competitiveness of 500 cities around the world. This one-of-a-kind annual resource draws on a wealth of data sources, all of which are described and assessed. Us...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Migration and the Globalisation of Health Care
John Connell
The international migration of health workers has been described by Nelson Mandela as the ‘poaching’ of desperately needed skills from under-privileged regions. This book examines the controversial recent history of skilled migration, an...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Higher Education in a Global Society
Edited by D. Bruce Johnstone, Madeleine B. d’Ambrosio, Paul J. Yakoboski
Higher education functions in a global environment of consumers, employees, competitors, and partners. It has been a force for globalization and a model for adaptation, but nonetheless faces challenges. This volume of essays examines eme...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Tax Reform in Open Economies
Edited by Iris Claus, Norman Gemmell, Michelle Harding, David White
The eminent contributors (including Altshuler, Creedy, Freebairn, Gravelle, Heady, Kalb, Sørensen and Zodrow) investigate the beneficial directions for medium-term tax reform in the light of global developments and lessons from the lates...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Reality of Budgetary Reform in OECD Nations
Edited by John Wanna, Lotte Jensen, Jouke de Vries
The Reality of Budgetary Reform in OECD Nations investigates the impacts and consequences of budgetary reform through a comparative assessment of advanced Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) democracies that hav...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Political Economy of Taxation
Paola Profeta, Simona Scabrosetti
This unique book in a relatively under-researched subject area will prove essential reading for academics, researchers and practitioners focusing on political economy, public finance and the economics of taxation.eBook:Find out more£25.00
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State and Local Fiscal Policy
Edited by Sally Wallace
In this broad and illuminating work, experts on public finance discuss innovations in state and local tax policy that have been implemented or considered over the course of the last three decades. The authors provide original work that a...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Heightening Competition in the Postal and Delivery Sector
Edited by Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer
This compilation of original essays by an international cast of top scholars addresses some of the major issues now facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. The European Commission and member states wrestle with the prob...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Heat, Power and Light
Roger Fouquet
Heat, Power and Light is an invaluable and unique contribution to this profoundly important topic.eBook:Find out more£35.16
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Politicians and Public Services
Kate Jenkins
As a senior official in Mrs Thatcher’s government, the author describes in detail and from the inside the process of planning and introducing ‘executive agencies’, a major change in one of the largest governments in the world. She emphas...eBook:Find out more£29.56
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Public Management Reform and Modernization
Edoardo Ongaro
Since the 1980s, a wave of reforms of public management has swept the world. The investigation into the effects of such major transformations has, however, been unbalanced: important countries have received only limited attention. This t...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Personal Provision of Retirement Income
Edited by Jim Stewart, Gerard Hughes
In response to demographic change many countries in the European Union have reformed their pension systems. During the last two decades personal pensions have been introduced in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, ...