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![Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers, Forest Conservation and Climate Change]()
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers, Forest Conservation and Climate Change
Silvia Irawan, Luca Tacconi
Intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IFTs) are an innovative way to create incentives for local public actors to support conservation. This book contributes to the debate about how to conserve tropical forests by implementing mechanisms f...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Innovation Networks and the New Asian Regionalism
Hans-Peter Brunner
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. The rise of Asia, as well as the future of regional cooperation and integration (RCI) the worl... -
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Trust, Social Capital and the Scandinavian Welfare State
Gunnar L.H. Svendsen, Gert T. Svendsen
Denmark exemplifies the puzzle of socio-economic success in Scandinavia. Populations are thriving despite the world’s highest levels of tax and generous social benefits. Denmark would appear to be a land of paradise for free-riders and t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Reform in Asia
Sara Hsu
Economic Reform in Asia compares and analyzes the reform and development patterns of China, India, and Japan from both historical and developmental perspectives. Sara Hsu specifically focuses on China’s reform and opening-up in 1979, Ind...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Analysis and Public Policy
Stuart Shapiro
How do we incorporate analytical thinking into public policy decisions? Stuart Shapiro confronts this issue in Analysis and Public Policy by looking at various types of analysis, and discussing how they are used in regulatory policy-maki...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Corruption and Criminal Justice
Tina Søreide
The author addresses the role of criminal justice in anti-corruption by investigating assumptions in the classic law and economics approach and debating the underlying criteria for an efficient criminal justice system. Drawing on real li...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Academic Entrepreneurship
Edited by Phillip H. Phan
Academic entrepreneurship is a multifactorial and multidimensional phenomenon. This book presents research featuring aspects of academic entrepreneurship at the regional, institutional, and organizational levels of analysis. Phillip H. P...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Shale Gas and the Future of Energy
Edited by John C. Dernbach, James R. May
The rapid growth of shale gas development has led to an intense and polarizing debate about its merit. At the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, countries around the world concluded that the transition to sustaina...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The International Monetary Fund
Graham Bird, Dane Rowlands
There is no shortage of opinion about the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Some see it as the agent of austerity, being manipulated by wealthy nations and forcing poorer countries to pursue economic policies that suppress growth and de...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Evolution of the World Economy
Terutomo Ozawa
The world economy is near a critical crossroads, as a rising China, the greatest-ever beneficiary of US-led capitalism, ironically dreams big to replace America''s supremacy as a new hegemonic power with a non-liberal world order. This t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law
Mireille Hildebrandt
This timely book tells the story of the smart technologies that reconstruct our world, by provoking their most salient functionality: the prediction and preemption of our day-to-day activities, preferences, health and credit risks, crimi...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Labour Law, Vulnerability and the Regulation of Precarious Work
Lisa Rodgers
The shifting nature of employment practice towards the use of more precarious work forms has caused a crisis in classical labour law and engendered a new wave of regulation. This timely book deftly uses this crisis as an opportunity to e...eBook:Find out more$40.00
