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The traditional flow of goods from primary production through to manufacturing and consumption has expanded across international borders conterminously with globalization. Vertical specialization (VS) in processing and manufacturing in China has driven export growth. In...
Editeur :
Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2013-05-09
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Charles R. Morris's The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008) was the first book to warn of the impending financial crash in all its horrific scale and speed. Now, with Comeback, Morris reveals that the United States is on the brink of a strong recovery that could last for...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2013-05-07
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Tingjin Lin explores the conflict between self-interest and the provision of equality of opportunity facing educators in China. Provincial leaders prove reluctant to equalize education when doing so means sacrificing their future promotion.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-04-23
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The turn of the century has seen the US greatly enhance its military supremacy across the world. It has also played a key role in shaping the international economic order. More recently, however, its world-wide economic domination has started to diminish as other...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-17
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Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of 2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the result of two conjoined crises. First, in its brief war with Georgia in August 2008, Russia asserted its military power to halt the expansion...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-17
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Education is a crucially important social institution, closely correlated with wealth, occupational prestige, psychological well-being, and health outcomes. Moreover, for children of immigrants – who account for almost one in four school-aged children in the U.S. – it...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
Collection :
Immigration and Society
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Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013
Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-03-27
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As Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the early 1980s, David Stockman was a chief architect of the Reagan Revolution -- a bold plan to cut taxes and reduce the scope and cost of government. The Triumph of Politics was Stockman's frontline report of the...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2013-03-26
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This exciting new volume provides an up-to-date overview of the current state of taxation in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, its main reform needs, and possible reform strategies that take into account the likely economic, institutional, and political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-18
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This Oxford Handbook provides a fresh overall view and interpretation of the modern economic growth of one of the largest European countries, whose economic history is less known internationally than that of other comparably large and successful economies. It will...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-01-04
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A review of the literature on environmental taxes, focusing on European experiences, and analysing how such taxes can contribute to green causes as well as reducing the tax burden from "ordinary" taxation. The authors examine the potential 'double dividend' from tax...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-11-30
Collection :
Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy
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Could regional integration be a first step toward joining the global market? In a context where liberalizing trade has not produced the expected gains in developing countries and growth in global trade has not led to the expected economic growth, an alternative...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-11-28
Collection :
Insight and Innovation in International Development
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The publication aims to familiarize students of public policy with the precautionary principle, which plays a vital role in the European Union’s approach toward regulating risks.The precautionary principle contends that policy makers should refrain from actions having a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-11-05
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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At a time when scientific and technical innovation now requires a multitude of heterogeneous inputs and expertise from the public and private sectors alike, cooperative research centers (CRCs) have emerged as the predominant vehicle for cross-sector collaboration. In...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-09-18
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The premise of this volume is that business regulations are expected to grow in the near future as a consequence of the emergence of a “(world) risk society.” Risks related to terrorism, climate change, and financial crises, for example, will penetrate all conditions of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-09-14
ePub
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What changes are occurring at the macro and the sectoral levels, how the labour market changes are taking place and what impact is felt on the low income households are some of the questions that the present volume focuses on. It begins by examining the sectoral...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-08-12
ePub
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This book is a collection of articles that present the most recent cutting edge results on specification and estimation of economic models written by a number of the world’s foremost leaders in the fields of theoretical and methodological econometrics. Recent advances...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-08-01
ePub
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For a long time, it has been the declared aim in many countries to fight tax evasion in all its different manifestations, from undeclared work by cleaners and gardeners in private households to tax evasion in the international capital markets. This study focuses on the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-05-08
ePub
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The financial crisis that began in 2008 and its lingering aftermath have caused many intellectuals and politicians to question the virtues of capitalist systems.The 19 original essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars from Asia, North America, and Europe,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-04-19
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The biopharmaceutical industry has been a major driver of technological change in health care, producing unprecedented benefits for patients, cost challenges for payers, and profits for shareholders. As consumers and companies benefit from access to new drugs,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-04-12
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