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Intellectual Property, Pharmaceuticals and Public Health
Edited by Kenneth C. Shadlen, Samira Guennif, Alenka Guzmán , Narayanan Lalitha
This up-to-date book examines pharmaceutical development, access to medicines, and the protection of public health in the context of two fundamental changes that the global political economy has undergone since the 1970s, the globalizati...eBook:Find out more$50.36
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Public Sector Shock
Edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. The goal of this volume is to study this ‘public sector shock’. While budgetary reforms seek...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Trafficking and Human Rights
Edited by Leslie Holmes
Human trafficking is widely considered to be the fastest growing branch of trafficking. It has moved rapidly up the agenda of states and international organisations since the early-1990s, not only because of this growth, but also as its ...eBook:Find out more$35.96
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Brands and Branding Geographies
Edited by Andy Pike
Despite overstated claims of their ‘global’ homogeneity, ubiquity and contribution to ‘flattening’ spatial differences, the geographies of brands and branding actually do matter. This vibrant collection provides a comprehensive reference...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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Transforming European Employment Policy
Edited by Ralf Rogowski, Robert Salais, Noel Whiteside
Since the mid 1990s, the focus of European employment and social policy has shifted from protection to promotion. This book provides a timely analysis of this new form of governance, and the new forms of policy delivery and audit which a...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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Gendered Lives
Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Anke C. Plagnol
The focus of the book is on inequalities in production and reproductive activities, as played out over time and in specific contexts. It examines the different forms that gendered lives take in the household and the workplace, and explor...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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Government, Governance and Welfare Reform
Edited by Alberto Brugnoli, Alessandro Colombo
This unique and original book focuses on institutional changes, welfare reforms and transformations in both Britain and Italy over the last three decades.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Growing the Productivity of Government Services
Patrick Dunleavy, Leandro Carrera
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Productivity is essentially the ratio of an organization’s outputs divided by its inputs. Fo...eBook:Find out more$43.16
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The Costs of Children
Edited by David G. Mayes, Mark Thomson
The expert contributors provide an assessment of how countries can handle the fair allocation of the costs of childcare. They look at the experience within Europe in recent years and show in particular how these interrelate with the obje...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Integration for Third-Country Nationals in the European Union
Edited by Sonia Morano-Foadi, Micaela Malena
This highly original book provides an innovative analysis of EU migration and asylum law and its interplay with equality issues in order to assess the current integration framework for third-country nationals and to explore future scenar...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Innovation Imperative in Health Care Organisations
Edited by Peter Spurgeon, Ronald J. Burke, Cary Cooper
Health systems in the western world face increasingly intense pressure to contain or reduce costs, while countries such as China and India move towards universal coverage. The contributors illustrate that radical gains in efficiency and ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Aging, Economic Growth, and Old-Age Security in Asia
Edited by Donghyun Park, Sang-Hyop Lee, Andrew Mason
First, the expert contributors argue, Asia must find ways to sustain rapid economic growth in the face of less favorable demographics, which implies slower growth of the workforce. Second, they contend, Asia must find ways to deliver aff...eBook:Find out more$40.00
