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    Impacts on the Economy and Ways to Recovery

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    Series series Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics
    This book assesses the impacts of COVID-19 on the Indonesian economy, particularly on employment, education, poverty, trade, and macroeconomy.The chapters explain how fiscal and monetary stimulus work and the roles of local governments in managing stimulus. It also presents paths to recovery and lessons learned from countries that have found success in mitigating the economic impacts of the ... Read more

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  • Institutional Change in Southeast Asia

    Series series European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian Economics and Business Series
    This book examines the institutional changes taking place in, and challenges facing, the region since 1997. It also describes various differences in the reform process between countries in the region. Sjöholm and Tongzon argue that the economies of southeast Asia need to reform their institutions if the previous rapid development is to continue. The institutional weaknesses have been addressed to ... Read more

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  • The Challenge of Economic Development

    A Survey of Issues and Constraints Facing Developing Countries

    This book provides a general overview of the challenges of economic development for the five billion people living in developing countries. While they constitute over 80 percent of the world's population, they account for only 40% of the world's output, and are home to 2.6 billion people living on less than $2.00 per day. Thinking on economic development has shifted over time. Early theories that ... Read more

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    Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems appears at a timely moment, given widespread current discussion about equity in healthy care and the role of the state in healthcare planning. In response to the World Bank recommendation that the principle of cost recovery be included in healthcare financing strategies, African countries embraced the principle of public-private partnerships in ... Read more

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  • The ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement

    The Regionalisation of Laws and Policy on Foreign Investment

    The International Investment regime is one of the fastest growing areas of international economic law which increasingly rely on large membership investment treaties such as the ASEAN comprehensive Investment Agreement. This book comprehensively examines the role of this specific agreement and situates it in the wider trend towards the regionalisation of laws and policy on foreign investment. ... Read more

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  • The Human Cost of Recessions: Assessing It, Reducing It

    Series Book 2010 - IMF Staff Position Notes
    Recessions leave scars on the labor market. Over 200 million people across the globe are estimated to be unemployed at present resulting from the Great Recession of 2007–09. We assess the human cost of increased unemployment by surveying what is known about the effects of past recessions. If past is prologue, the cost to the unemployed (and society) could be high. The focus of this paper is on ... Read more

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  • Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Asia and Africa

    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Although there is much interest in poverty reduction, there are few agreed upon strategies to effectively reduce poverty. In this new book, the editors have gathered together various evidences on poverty dynamics, based on panel data from the last few decades in the Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and Tamil Nadu in India, compared with more recent data from sub-Saharan Africa. The major finding ... Read more

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  • Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis

    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt. While productive in and of themselves, these solutions were effective because they were coordinated internationally and were matched with sweeping global financial reforms. ... Read more

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  • China: Economic Reform and Macroeconomic Management

    Series Book 76 - Occasional Papers
    China encountered problems preserving economic stability while pursuing reforms aimed at increasing its economic flexibility and efficiency. This paper examines China's experience with market-oriented reforms since 1978, offering lessons for other centrally planned economies in the midst of transition to free markets. ... Read more

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    Volume 6, The Challenge of Privatization

    Edited by Xenia Scheil-Adlung ...
    Series series International Social Security Series
    In recent years, in both the specialist press and the tabloids, the idea of privatization of social security has become a shimmering catch phrase. Politicians base election campaigns on promises of more or less privatization in social security. Many governments introduce private business management methods into their social security systems. Representatives of social security institutions and ... Read more

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  • International Environmental Law and Distributive Justice

    The Equitable Distribution of CDM Projects under the Kyoto Protocol

    Series series Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
    The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is widely regarded as one of the Kyoto Protocol’s best creations and as an essential part of the international climate change regime. The CDM has been constantly evolving to ensure that it fulfils its objectives of mitigating climate change and contributing to sustainable development in developing countries. The over 6,000 registered projects under the CDM are ... Read more

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