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  • Migration States and Welfare States: Why Is America Different from Europe?

    by A. Razin, E. Sadka ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Over the last three decades, Europe's generous social benefits have encouraged a massive surge of 'welfare migration,' especially of low skilled laborers. At the same time, the US has attracted many highly skilled migrants, which in turn promotes internal innovation. Restrictions on the international mobility of labor are arguably the largest policy obstructions for the international economy today ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Fear City

    New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

    by Kim Phillips-Fein ...
    PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTAn epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster—and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world todayWhen the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • A U-Turn on the Road to Serfdom

    Prospects for Reducing the Size of the State

    by Grover Norquist ...
    Series series Occasional Papers
    This book suggests that drastic reforms are required to reverse the ever-increasing size of the state, a trend experienced in most western nations. The report proposes a reassessment of the scale of government to achieve a reduction in taxation and spending. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values

    Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries

    by Hiroaki Suzuki, Jin Murakami, Yu-Hung Hong, Beth Tamayose ...
    Series series Urban Development
    Unlock the potential of transit-oriented development in developing countries. Urban railways can improve mobility, accessibility, and economic growth. This insightful guide provides strategies for financing these systems through land value capture, turning transit investments into sustainable urban development.This practical resource is for policymakers, urban planners, and investors seeking to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Financing the EU Budget

    Moving Forward or Backwards?

    by Gabriele Cipriani ...
    Often described as complex, opaque and unfair, the EU budget financing system is an “unfinished journey.” One of the most critical issues is that EU revenue, drawn from the cashbox of national taxation, remains impalpable to the general public.The nature of the EU as a union of states and their nationals makes the visibility of EU revenue unavoidable. The political sustainability of a move that ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Uses of Social Investment

    Edited by Anton Hemerijck ...
    The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social investment. It surveys the emergence, diffusion, limits, merits, and politics of social investment as the welfare policy paradigm for the 21st century, seen through the lens of the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Invisible Safety Net

    Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families

    by Janet Currie ...
    In one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system, economist Janet Currie argues that the modern social safety net is under attack.Unlike most books about antipoverty programs, Currie trains her focus not on cash welfare, which accounts for a small and shrinking share of federal expenditures on poor families with children, but on the staples of today's American ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • State of Urban Services in India's Cities

    Spending and Financing

    by Kala Seetharam Sridhar, A. Venugopala Reddy ...
    With increasing population and expanding demand for urban infrastructure services, the capacities of local governments in many developing countries are overburdened. Adequate infrastructure is not only necessary for increasing productivity but also improving the quality of living. Given the primacy of public service delivery for cities to become engines of growth, this book answers two critical ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Network Reliability in Practice

    Selected Papers from the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability

    Edited by David Levinson, Henry X. Liu, Michael Bell ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR) Conference held at the University of Minnesota July 22-23, 2010. International scholars, from a variety of disciplines--engineering, economics, geography, planning and transportation—offer varying perspectives on modeling and analysis of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Property Tax in BRICS Megacities

    Local Government Financing and Financial Sustainability

    by Marco Salm ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The overall objective of the book is to holistically assess the property tax systems in BRICS megacities. As megacities play a vital role within their respective countries – economically, administratively, and from a human development perspective – they experience the costs and benefits of urbanization simultaneously with major investment needs, rising poverty, and increasing congestion and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Urbanization in Asia

    Governance, Infrastructure and the Environment

    Edited by Kala Seetharam Sridhar, Guanghua Wan ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This work focuses on urban governance in the developing world, its aim being to bring a holistic perspective to the debate on urban governance in Asia and around the globe. It has been divided into three sections: The first section is on rural interventions as they influence urbanization and its problems/solutions. The second focuses on urban governance, infrastructure programs, service delivery ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Inflation Dynamics in South Africa

    The Role of Thresholds, Exchange Rate Pass-through and Inflation Expectations on Policy Trade-offs

    by Eliphas Ndou, Nombulelo Gumata ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of South African inflation dynamics, using a variety of techniques including counterfactual analysis. The authors elaborate the roles in inflation of thresholds, nonlinearities and asymmetries introduced by economic conditions such as the size of exchange rate changes and volatility, GDP growth, inflation, output gap, credit growth, sovereign ... Read more

    $143.99 USD