Economic Policy category: 3057 books
The Resource Curse in the context of 'Socialism of the 21st Century'
How Governance in Venezuela and Ecuador Influences the Transfer of National Resource Wealth into Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,33, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, language: English, abstract: Ecuador and Venezuela, two Latin American OPEC member states, experienced a socioeconomic upheaval with the windfall petroleum revenues...
American Insecurity
Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues, this often doesn't...
by Ken Moak
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book discusses the economic and geopolitical effects of globalization from historical and institutional perspectives. While it has had unintended consequences, such as displacing developed countries' dominance of production markets, the overall benefits of globalization far outweigh the costs....
The Property Tax in China
History, Pilots, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This monograph offers a detailed analysis of the creation, pilot implementation, and possible wide adoption of the real property tax at the local level in China. Starting in 2003, as China’s economy gradually recovered from the Asian financial crisis that started in 1998, the real property market...
by Jaime de Melo
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Policies affecting resource allocation across tradable sectors and those affecting the incentives to produce tradable activities are key determinants of macroeconomic balance and growth. Computable general equilibrium models have made significant contributions to both types of policies. With advancements...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
The Political Economy of Regulation in Turkey brings together leading international scholars and experts on Turkey and regulatory reform to provide essential information on the recent Turkish experience and its relation to competition policy. After the 1980 liberalization reform, Turkey tried to introduce...
by Giovanni Michelagnoli
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
The present book analyses the work of Ezio Tarantelli, a remarkable Italian scientist and economist killed by the Red Brigades in 1985 after only a short life (1941-1985). Tarantelli’s work and its implications are not only of importance for Italian researchers, but also represents a contribution...
The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt
Issues and Policymaking since 1952
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
What are the long-term structural features of the Egyptian economy? What are the factors that have facilitated or inhibited its performance? This crucial and timely work answers these questions and more by examining the most important economic decisions to have impacted the Egyptian economy since...
Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies
Opportunities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care. Structured in three parts, the book begins by framing social policy as an integral system in its own right....
The New Generation of Computable General Equilibrium Models
Modeling the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This book covers some important topics in the construction of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models and examines use of these models for the analysis of economic policies, their properties, and their implications. Readers will find explanation and discussion of the theoretical structure and...
The Technological Specialization of Advanced Countries
A Report to the EEC on International Science and Technology Activities
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Advanced countries have shown an increasing convergence in their economic performance and technological intensity, with a relative decline of the position of the United States and the emergence of the European and Japanese economies. The Technological Specialization of Advanced Countries moves beyond...
High-Skilled Migration
Drivers and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Political and scientific debates on migration policies have mostly focused on governments' efforts to control or reduce low-skilled, asylum, and irregular migration or to encourage the return migration of these categories. Less research and constructive discourse has been conducted on the role and...
Regional Economic Issues, April 2015
Europe: The Western Balkans: 15 Years of Economic Transition
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
This report analyses the main economic developments and achievements in the Western Balkan countries, and lays out the key macroeconomic policy challenges for the future.
Towards an Effective European Single Market
Implementing the Various Forms of European Policy Instruments across Member States
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
If the European Union and its Member States are to compete successfully in an increasingly aggressive global market, whilst many other economies continue to get stronger, all parts of the European Union, Member States and the EU institutions, have to regulate smarter. The answer therefore is not to...