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The Working Poor in Europe
Edited by Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Henning Lohmann
For a long time in-work poverty was not associated with European welfare states. Recently, the topic has gained relevance as welfare state retrenchment and international competition in globalized economies has put increasing pressures on...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Integration in East Asia
Edited by Masahisa Fujita, Satoru Kumagai, Koji Nishikimi
Increasing numbers of free trade and economic partnership agreements have been concluded among many countries in East Asia, and economic integration has progressed rapidly on both a de facto and de jure basis. However, as the authors of ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Creating Experiences in the Experience Economy
Edited by Jon Sundbo, Per Darmer
Creating Experiences in the Experience Economy focuses on the creation of experience from a business perspective. In doing so, the book establishes a more solid foundation for making better and more complex analyses of experience creatio...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Small Island Tourism
Riaz Shareef, Suheija Hoti, Michael McAleer
This study forms an entirely new area of research on Small Island Tourism Economies (SITEs). It addresses the importance of uncertainty in monthly international tourist arrivals and country risk indicators to the macroeconomy.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Infrastructure and Trade in Asia
Edited by Douglas H. Brooks, Jayant Menon
Analysis of infrastructure’s role in facilitating international trade and consequently regional economic integration is still rudimentary. This original book fills that knowledge gap by exploring relevant concepts, measurement issues, as...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific
Edited by Phillip Lawn, Matthew Clarke
Frequent references are made to the ‘Asian economic miracle’ as a means of describing the wave of GDP growth experienced across the Asia-Pacific region over the past twenty years. Implicit in this description is the assumption that the A...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Interpreting and Implementing the TRIPS Agreement
Edited by Justin Malbon, Charles Lawson
This book considers whether the WTO agreement on ‘Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights’ (TRIPS) will become a vehicle for promoting greater international equity and engagement with the world economy or a tool for wealthy...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya
Robert Pollin, Mwangi wa Githinji, James Heintz
The Kenyan economy has experienced improved economic growth in recent years, and the government has maintained a commitment to generating 500,000 new jobs per year. But the country still faces severe problems of poverty-level employment ... -
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Children, Changing Families and Welfare States
Edited by Jane Lewis
The book explores the implications of changes to the welfare state for children in a range of countries. Children, Changing Families and Welfare States: examines the implications of social policies for children; sets the discussion in ...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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MicroFranchising
Edited by Jason Fairbourne, Stephen W. Gibson, W. Gibb Dyer
This unique book provides an overview of the need to alleviate poverty and what methods have been used in the past to do so (e.g. microcredit). It then introduces the concept of the microfranchise and discusses how this business model ca...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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Policies for Sustainable Governance of Global Ecosystem Services
Edited by Janet Ranganathan, Mohan Munasinghe, Frances Irwin
This book provides a compilation of policy, institutional and governance recommendations from eighteen leading international experts, to respond to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment finding that over the last 50 years humans have degra... -
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Economic Reform in Developing Countries
Edited by José María Fanelli, Lyn Squire
This book offers insights into the process of economic reform in developing countries. It is organized around three factors that are critical to the success of any reform. According to Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, these key dimensions are...eBook:Find out more$40.00