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  • Contemporary Issues and Challenges in Public Financial Management

    Responding to Global Crises

    Edited by Richard Allen, Philipp Krause ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Public financial management (PFM) has gone through a period of intense change since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008-2009 and its aftermath. The implications from the GFC alongside the Covid-19 crisis, the Ukraine-Russia war, and the associated energy crises have had profound implications for how countries conduct their fiscal, tax, and budgetary policies. There has also been a huge ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • Building Better Policies

    The Nuts and Bolts of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems

    Series series World Bank Training Series
    Governments around the world face ongoing pressures from citizens to provide more and better services, and to do this while restraining taxation levels. This provides the context for government efforts to ensure their policies and programs are as effective, and as efficient, as possible. An emphasis on government performance has led a number of governments to create formal systems for monitoring ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Business and Human Rights

    From Principles to Practice

    In a global economy, multinational companies often operate in jurisdictions where governments are either unable or unwilling to uphold even the basic human rights of their citizens. The expectation that companies respect human rights in their own operations and in their business relationships is now a business reality that corporations need to respond to. Business and Human Rights: From Principles ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Environmental Sustainability: An Evaluation Of World Bank Group

    by World Bank ...
    This evaluation assesses the Bank Group's support for environmental sustainability in both the public and private sectors over the past 15 years. It identifies several crucial constraints that need to be addressed, perhaps most importantly insufficient government commitment to environmental goals and weak institutional capacity to deal with them. But constraints within the Bank Group, including ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Outsourcing Economics

    Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development

    Outsourcing Economics has a double meaning. First, it is a book about the economics of outsourcing. Second, it examines the way that economists have understood globalization as a pure market phenomenon, and as a result have 'outsourced' the explanation of world economic forces to other disciplines. Markets are embedded in a set of institutions - labor, government, corporate, civil society, and ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Globalization, Poverty and Inequality

    Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    Globalization is characterised by persistent poverty and growing inequality. Conventional wisdom has it that this global poverty is residual – as globalization deepens, the poor will be lifted out of destitution. The policies of the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO echo this belief and push developing countries ever deeper into the global economy.Globalization, Poverty and Inequality provides an ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Efficiency, Finance, and Varieties of Industrial Policy

    Guiding Resources, Learning, and Technology for Sustained Growth

    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    Industrial policy, once relegated to resource allocation, technological improvements, and the modernization of industries, should be treated as a serious component of sustainability and developmental economics. A rich set of complimentary institutions, shared behavioral norms, and public policies have sustained economic growth from Britain's industrial revolution onwards. This volume revisits the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Can East Asia Compete?: Innovation For Global Markets

    East Asian economies are at different stages of development, but to preserve-and to increase-their competitiveness through innovation and the opportunities presented by information and communication technologies (ICT), they need to move quickly to frame and implement policies in five areas. Reform and restructuring of the banking system are matters of priority: Second, corporate governance in East ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Safeguarding Land Tenure Rights in the Context of Agricultural Investment

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This guide has been developed in response to concerns regarding large-scale land acquisitions and the need to increase investment in agriculture. The guide supports application of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure for Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security at the national level by providing technical guidance on how to safeguard tenure ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Issues in Construction in Developing Countries

    Edited by George Ofori ...
    Series series CIB
    Economic growth and socio-economic development are particuliarly important for developing countries, and the construction industry plays a central role in driving both of these.Traditionally the issues faced have been assumed to be merely offshoots of those encountered in industrialised nations and are usually discussed only in this context. In addition, research in construction management and ... Read more

    $70.99 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

  • Measuring What Counts

    The Global Movement for Well-Being

    A bold agenda for a better way to assess societal well-being, by three of the world's leading economists and statisticians"If we want to put people first, we have to know what matters to them, what improves their well-being, and how we can supply more of whatever that is."—Joseph E. StiglitzIn 2009, a group of economists led by Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi ... Read more

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