"The book presents Poland's legal and institutional response to the pandemic, analysed through the prism of common European values and Poland's international commitments. It signposts the financial solutions adopted by the EU in the aftermath of the outbreak to assess how they w…
Impact of COVID-19 on Brunei Darussalam economy / Gamini Premaratne, Aishath Shahudha Abdulla, and Farah Amer Hishamuddin -- Cambodia's response to COVID-19 and its socioeconomic dimensions / Júlia Garcia Puig -- COVID-19 and the economy: How Indonesia responded / Aris Ananta, W…
Business for society
by Gangi, Francesco, Daniele, Lucia Michela, Jardat, Rémi, Méric, Jérôme
"This book is about promoting corporate responsibility in its original meaning: businesses should have a positive impact on society, and society should not only be a lever of profit making. When we treat social responsibility as an external function of the core business, we are …
India transformed: 25 years of economic reforms
"This extended autobiographical essay explains in clear, engaging terms how the role of economics and finance in the Western world has shifted in the twenty-first century, from cultivating wellbeing in society to eroding the wealth of the middle class. Just a handful of years in…
The politics of higher education -- College and the myth of the good job -- Why higher education reduces social mobility -- The myth of the fair meritocracy -- How college changed childhood, education, and parenting in America -- Training undemocratic capitalists -- The death of…
Economics of natural disasters
"One of the key themes of this book is to study economic crises and financial crises, and the policy measures that are available to manage them. The second key theme of the book is to review several public policies in Singapore, such as competition, healthcare, training, free tr…
Introduction -- The importance of warfare -- Europe's urban rise -- Evaluating the safe harbor effect -- Evaluating the warfare-to-wealth effect -- Warfare to wealth in comparative perspective -- Epilogue.
Evaluation and the sustainable development goals : opportunities and constraints -- Information and Communication Technologies for Evaluation (ICT4Eval) : theory and practice -- Big data analytics and development evaluation : optimism and caution -- Technology, biases and ethics…