Most of the scholarship on the Job Guarantee up to now has been in the context of industrialized nations such as the United States and Australia. "Employment Guarantee Schemes" directs attention to challenges and opportunities of enacting direct job creation policies in developi…
Most literature on the economic crisis in indonesia has focused on the negative macro-economic impacts during the "crisis- years" of 1997-99. The case studies presented in this book take a different perspective. With a longitudinal research perspective, this comparative study an…
In Lessons in Sustainable Development, Hsu examines China and Taiwan in terms of inequality and environmental issues.
Based on over a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume analyses the challenges to be met if global extreme poverty is to be eradicated. Building on case studies from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Uganda, it includes material on poverty dynamics,…
by Atikian, Joe
fromPalgrave Pivot
The world's economies can be subdivided into three basic sectors whose sizes evolve as technology advances: agriculture, manufacturing, and services shift. Quantifying these shifts is fundamental to a grounded understanding of economic progress, and yet publication in this field…
Thomas Lines examines the role that global polices have played in creating the crisis of rural poverty. He explains the mechanisms of the markets and supply chains, charting their impact on agricultural trade in the world's poorest countries.
This volume is the result of the 2012 International Economic Association's series of roundtables on the theme of Industrial Policy. The first, 'New Thinking on Industrial Policy, ' was hosted by the World Bank in Washington, D.C, and the second, 'New Thinking on Industrial Polic…
"This book argues that the new actors in global health constitute a 'private turn' in global health governance, and provides theoretical and practical grounds for viewing global health partnerships and philanthropic foundations as closely aligned in their ideational and material…
Aid has become a tangle of donors and recipients, so unwieldy that it is in danger of collapse. This ground-breaking book presents fresh thinking that transcends the 'more' verses 'less' arguments. Drawing on complexity theory it shows how aid could be transformed into a truly d…
The aim of the book is to investigate, theoretically and empirically, key aspects of social and economic inequalities that developed during the transition of the formerly planned European economies. Although the focus is mainly on new EU member states, coverage of the analysis i…
This collection is an engaging exploration of how Bourdieu's key concepts - field, habitus and capital - help us re-think the status of childhood. The authors are committed to improving the social status and well-being of childhood in social, economic and political worlds that t…
Supply chain management has attracted much attention in the last decade. There has been a noticeable shift from a traditional individual organization-based management to an integrated management across the supply chain network since the end of the last century. The shift contrib…
International Business and Political Economy is divided up into three sections. The first sections deals with the problem of the World economy and the most important issues affecting the World economy. The second part analyses problem mainly affecting the developed countries. Th…
Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life. This exciting new volume is unique in that it is the first book of its kind in which these problems are ana…
The Role of Creative Ignorance outlines the importance of creative ignorance using narrative examples of innovators and companies worldwide.
Poland is one of the biggest yet rarely heard of economic success stories. Over the last 25 years it has unexpectedly become Europe's growth champion. This work is about lessons learned from Poland's remarkable experience, the conditions that keep countries poor, and challenges …
Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activist…
This book explores the role of businesses in delivering positive societal and financial outcomes as they seek to bridge the gap between short-term organizational behaviors and long-range sustainability commitments. By addressing the inevitable data challenges associated with the…
