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“camilla devitt”

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  • Health Politics in Europe

    A Handbook

    Edited by Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson, Camilla Devitt, Tamara Popic ...
    Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook is a major new reference work, which provides historical background and up-to-date information and analysis on health politics and health systems throughout Europe. In particular, it captures developments that have taken place since the end of the Cold War, a turning point for many European health systems, with most post-communist transition countries ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

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  • Public Finance In China: Reform And Growth For A Harmonious Society

    by Jiwei Lou; Shuilin Wang ...
    This book brings together analysis and insights from high-level Chinese policy-makers and prominent international scholars in addressing the key challenges China is facing in maintaining rapid growth and achieving the Government's stated goal of creating a harmonious society. It analyzes such key policy issues as: public finance and the changing role of the state; fiscal reform and revenue and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Managing Development

    Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Social Policy

    Edited by Junji Nakagawa ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Globalization in the 1990s provided both opportunities and challenges for developing and transition economies. Though for some, it offered the chance to achieve economic growth through active involvement in the integrated and liberalized world economy, it also increased their vulnerability to external shocks and volatility.As a consequence, stakeholders at every level of the development and ... Read more

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  • Equality For Women: Where Do We Stand?

    by Buvinic Mayra; Morrison Andrew R.; Sjoblom Mirja; Ofosu-Amaah A. Waafas ...
    Upon signing the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the international community committed itself to eight development goals with timebound targets and measurable indicators. The third of these eight goals was to "promote gender equality and empower women". The third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) in the Millennium Declaration has spurred national and international efforts to improve women's ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Minimum Wages, Pay Equity, and Comparative Industrial Relations

    by Damian Grimshaw ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    With growing concern about the conditions facing low wage workers and new challenges to traditional forms of labor market protection, this book offers a timely analysis of the purpose and effectiveness of minimum wages in different European countries. Building on original industry case studies, the analysis goes beyond general debates about the relative merits of labor market regulation to reveal ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Making Social Spending Work

    by Peter H. Lindert ...
    How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across the globe to reveal what has worked, what needs changing, and who the winners and losers are under different systems. He traces the development of public education, health care, pensions, and welfare provision, and addresses key questions ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Economics and Politics of Oil in the Caspian Basin

    The Redistribution of Oil Revenues in Azerbaijan and Central Asia

    Edited by Boris Najman, Richard Pomfret, Gaël Raballand ...
    Series series Central Asia Research Forum
    The Caspian Basin region has boomed since the late 1990s due to new oil discoveries, new pipelines that have diversified countries' transport options and world oil prices that have risen from below $10 in 1998 to $70 in 2006.This book analyzes the experience of the Caspian countries during the oil boom. It is founded on empirical studies, using either macroeconomic tools or an analysis of public ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Labour Market Policies in the Era of Pervasive Austerity

    A European Perspective

    by Anke Hassel, Masa Filipovic Hrast, Miroljub Ignjatovic, Stefan Domonkos, Tomáš Sirovátka, Hayley Bennett, Elke Heins, Fiona Dukelow, Johan Bo Davidsson, Marcel Hoogenboom, Werner Eichhorst0, Sotiria Theodoropoulou1, Helene Caune3, Emmanuele Pavolini4, Patrik Vesan5, Manos Matsaganis6, David Natali7, Chiara Agostini8 ...
    This book investigates the changing patterns of labour market and unemployment policies in EU member states during the period since fiscal austerity took hold in 2010 during the deepest postwar recession in Europe.Looking at the big European picture, do we see a convergence or a divergence in labour market and unemployment policy trends and outputs? Has labour market insecurity increased or ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Global Monitoring Report 2011: Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs

    by World Bank ; International Monetary Fund ...
    With less than five years left to achieve the MDGs this year's report looks at the prospects and challenges for reaching the goals. It also examines the great diversity of performance across indicators countries and categories of countriesto determine the necessary policies to fill the remaining gaps. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Good Practices In Health Financing: Lessons From Reforms In Low And Middle-Income Countries

    by Gottret Pablo; Schieber George; Waters Hugh R. ...
    For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy. Developing countries and the international community are scaling up health systems to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and are improving financial protection by securing long-term support for these gains. Yet money alone cannot buy ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Health Policy Developments 13

    Focus on Health Policy in Times of Crisis, Competition and Regulation, Evaluation in Health Care

    Edited by Ray Moynihan, Kerstin Blum, Reinhard Busse, Sophia Schlette ...
    Health policy in times of crisis is one of the topics of Health Policy Developments 13 exploring the challenge the crisis has posed to health systems, but also asking whether it has provided an opportunity for reform. While some countries like Estonia drastically reduced their healthcare budgets, others, such as Austria and the United States, have responded with plans to boost public expenditure. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oil Is Not a Curse

    Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States

    by Pauline Jones Luong, Erika Weinthal ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This 2010 book makes two central claims: first, that mineral-rich states are cursed not by their wealth but, rather, by the ownership structure they choose to manage their mineral wealth and second, that weak institutions are not inevitable in mineral-rich states. Each represents a significant departure from the conventional resource curse literature, which has treated ownership structure as a ... Read more

    $35.29 USD