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  • Local Public Finance

    An International Comparative Regulatory Perspective

    Edited by René Geissler, Gerhard Hammerschmid, Christian Raffer ...
    This book is based upon a comparative public administration research project, initiated by the Hertie School of Governance (Germany) and the Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany) and supported by a network of researchers from many EU countries. It analyzes both the regimes and the practices of local fiscal regulation in 21 European countries.The book brings together key findings of this research ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • The Governance of Infrastructure

    Edited by Kai Wegrich, Genia Kostka, Gerhard Hammerschmid ...
    Series series Hertie Governance Report
    Infrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent, declining, or decrepit, or when enormous cost overruns, time delays, or citizen protests make the headlines. If infrastructure is indeed a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, why is it so difficult to get right? In addressing this perennial question, this volume-the fourth edition in an annual series tackling ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

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  • Currency Power

    Understanding Monetary Rivalry

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    Why the dollar will remain the world's most powerful currencyMonetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political, going to the heart of the global balance of power. But what exactly is the relationship between currency and power, and what does it portend for the ... Read more

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  • Minimum Wages, Pay Equity, and Comparative Industrial Relations

    by Damian Grimshaw ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    With growing concern about the conditions facing low wage workers and new challenges to traditional forms of labor market protection, this book offers a timely analysis of the purpose and effectiveness of minimum wages in different European countries. Building on original industry case studies, the analysis goes beyond general debates about the relative merits of labor market regulation to reveal ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Smart Fiscal Consolidation

    A Strategy for Achieving Sustainable Public Finances and Growth

    by Galina Kolev, Jürgen Matthes ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    Due to high government debt levels and the dangers of self-defeating austerity in Europe, smart fiscal consolidation measures are needed that foster economic growth. A thorough review of the relevant literature provides many useful insights. To regain credibility, a clearly communicated broad reform program (including structural reforms) is required. Targeting mainly public expenditures, rather ... Read more

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  • The Asian Economy

    Spearheading the Recovery from the Global Financial Crisis

    by Dilip Das ...
    The global financial crisis of 2007-09, and the Great Recession that it engendered, were both a challenge and an opportunity for Asia. The region not only remained unharmed by the global financial crisis initially but also recovered the fastest. In addition, it was also the principal driver of the global recovery.This book analyzes the impact of the global financial crisis and the Great Recession ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of the Economics of European Integration

    Edited by Harald Badinger, Volker Nitsch ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Routledge Handbook of the Economics of European Integration provides readers with a brief but comprehensive overview of topics related to the process of European integration in the post-World War II period. Its short chapters reflect the most up-to-date and concise research, written by a collective of experts on their own subjects.The aim of this book is twofold. Firstly, the text illustrates the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Politics of Bad Options

    Why the Eurozone's Problems Have Been So Hard to Resolve

    by Stefanie Walter, Ari Ray, Nils Redeker ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Why was the Eurozone crisis so difficult to resolve? Why was it resolved in a manner in which some countries bore a much larger share of the pain than other countries? Why did no ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Political Economy of Monetary Solidarity

    Understanding the Euro Experiment

    by Waltraud Schelkle ...
    Creating the European monetary union between diverse and unequal nation states is arguably one of the biggest social experiments in history. This book offers an explanation of how the euro experiment came about and was sustained despite a severe crisis, and provides a comparison with the monetary-financial history of the US. The euro experiment can be understood as risk-sharing through a currency ... Read more

    $92.69 USD

  • Fiscal Governance in Europe

    by Mark Hallerberg, Rolf Rainer Strauch, Jürgen von Hagen ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book presents a theoretical framework to discuss how governments coordinate budgeting decisions. There are two modes of fiscal governance conducive to greater fiscal discipline, a mode of delegation and a mode of contracts. These modes contrast with a fiefdom form of governance, in which the decision-making process is decentralized. An important insight is that the effectiveness of a given ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems

    The Sub-Saharan African Experience

    by Randolph Quaye ...
    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

    $34.79 USD

  • Global Monitoring Report 2011: Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs

    by World Bank ; International Monetary Fund ...
    With less than five years left to achieve the MDGs this year's report looks at the prospects and challenges for reaching the goals. It also examines the great diversity of performance across indicators countries and categories of countriesto determine the necessary policies to fill the remaining gaps. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD