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“michael rogan”

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  • COVID-19 and the Informal Economy

    Edited by Martha Chen, Michael Rogan, Kunal Sen ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. A key challenge for the post-COVID global economy is whether the disproportionate impact of the crisis on informal workers, who form the majority of the world's workforce, will be ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

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  • Treating Health Care

    How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better

    by Raisa Deber ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international context.An accessible guide, Treating Health Care unpacks key concepts to provide informed discussions ... Read more

    $25.19 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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  • 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

  • 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

    $14.99 USD

  • Getting Health Reform Right

    A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity

    by Marc Roberts, William Hsiao, Peter Berman, Michael Reich ...
    This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Governing the World Economy

    by Willem Molle ...
    The major problems the world faces have increased since the turn of the millennium. Recurrent storms on the financial markets have ravaged many countries, poverty is still widespread, notwithstanding decades of massive development aid, the environment remains in acute jeopardy and the major world institutions have often reached an impasse in attempting to combat these difficulties.The issues ask ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Sovereign Wealth Funds

    Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power

    by Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon, Ashby H.B. Monk ...
    The worldwide rise of sovereign wealth funds is emblematic of the ongoing transformation of nation-state economic prospects. Sovereign Wealth Funds maps the global footprints of these financial institutions, examining their governance and investment management, and issues of domestic and international legitimacy. Through a variety of case studies--from the China Investment Corporation to the funds ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Advancing Human Development

    Theory and Practice

    by Frances Stewart, Gustav Ranis, Emma Samman ...
    Human Development has been advocated as the prime development goal since 1990, when the publication of the first UNDP Human Development Report proposed that development should improve the lives people lead in multiple dimensions instead of primarily pursuing economic growth. This approach forms the foundation of Advancing Human Development: Theory and Practice. It traces the evolution of ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • The Universal Social Safety-Net and the Attack on World Poverty

    Pressing Need, Manageable Cost, Practical Possibilities, Favourable Spillovers

    by Anthony Clunies-Ross, Mozammel Huq ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap. This must be done country by country, on the initiative of each country’s government: with the maximum involvement of its own civil society, and with the rich world also making a contribution. To add momentum, the international community needs to adopt targets far more specific than ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A Thousand Cuts

    Social Protection in the Age of Austerity

    by Alexandros Kentikelenis, Thomas Stubbs ...
    The dominant policy response to economic crises over the past four decades has been the introduction of austerity--a mix of budget cuts and reforms to downsize the role of the state. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been the world's lender of last resort and leading advocate of austerity, and has been consistently chastised by policymakers and civil society for the consequences of its ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The State of Labour

    The Global Financial Crisis and its Impact

    Edited by Sharit K. Bhowmik ...
    This book analyzes the adverse effects of globalization and liberalization — acutely manifest in the increased financialization of capital and the concomitant global financial crisis of 2008–09 — on the labour force, especially in the developing countries. Drawing upon case studies from several countries including India, Columbia, Malawi, Brazil and Thailand, it highlights the worsening plight of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD