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In Search of Sustainable Water Management
Edited by Douglas S. Kenney
Water issues in the American West share many similarities with those seen elsewhere in the world as population growth exacerbates longstanding problems of inappropriate water use and management. The contributors to this timely volume exa...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Poverty Targeting in Asia
Edited by John Weiss
Following a comprehensive overview by the editor, this book offers a detailed assessment of the results of directly channelling resources to the poor and extensively discusses the experience of five Asian countries – India, Indonesia, th...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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The Young, the Old and the State
Edited by Anneli Anttonen, John Baldock, Jorma Sipilä
This is a comparative account of social care services for children and older people in five key industrial nations (Finland, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States). The authors break new ground by moving beyond institu...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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Ageing and Pension Reform Around the World
Edited by Giuliano Bonoli, Toshimitsu Shinkawa
This book comprehensively documents developments in pension policy in eleven advanced industrial countries in Western Europe, East Asia and North America. In order to explore what population ageing means for the sustainability of pensi...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Economics and Policies of an Enlarged Europe
Carlo Altomonte, Mario Nava
Carlo Altomonte and Mario Nava have written a very rigorous text in an accessible and jargon-free style, ensuring easy acquisition of invaluable insights into the European economic set-up and the possible evolution of EU policies, includ...eBook:Find out more$62.36
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Leadership in Context
Mark N. Wexler
Leaders are made, not born, Mark Wexler argues, and they cannot be understood in a vacuum. There is no simple answer as to why certain people select one leader over others. Those who look for a master story within capitalism to encapsula... -
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Handbook on Responsible Leadership and Governance in Global Business
Edited by Jonathan P. Doh, Stephen A. Stumpf
Ethics, social responsibility, leadership, governance. These terms are heard in the classroom, in the boardroom, and viewed on the front page of newspapers and magazines. Yet serious attention to the relationships among these concepts is...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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The Quest for Moral Leaders
Edited by Joanne B. Ciulla, Terry L. Price, Susan E. Murphy
The quest for moral leaders is both a personal quest that takes place in the hearts and minds of leaders and a pursuit by individuals, groups, organizations, communities and societies for leaders who are both ethical and effective. The c...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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Advancing Public Goods
Edited by Jean-Philippe Touffut
The studies cover topics in the conceptualization, classification and stratification of public goods. Also examined are public institutional design, global economic institutions and partnership typologies. Individual papers address the f...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Finance and Development
Edited by Christopher J. Green, Colin Kirkpatrick, Victor Murinde
In this valuable new book, a distinguished group of authors takes stock of the existing state of knowledge in the field of finance and the development process. Each chapter offers a comprehensive survey and synthesis of current issues. T...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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Capital Flight and Capital Controls in Developing Countries
Edited by Gerald A. Epstein
Capital flight – the unrecorded export of capital from developing countries – often represents a significant cost for developing countries. It also poses a puzzle for standard economic theory, which would predict that poorer countries be...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Aid, Institutions and Development
Ashok Chakravarti
In spite of massive flows over the past 50 years, aid has failed to have any significant impact on development. Marginalization from the world economy and increases in absolute poverty are causing countries to degenerate into failed, opp...eBook:Find out more$46.36