Economic Policy category: 3057 books
by International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Global activity has broadly strengthened and is expected to improve further in 2014–15, according to the April 2014 WEO, with much of the impetus for growth coming from advanced economies. Although downside risks have diminished overall, lower-than-expected inflation poses risks for advanced economies,...
World Economic Outlook, April 2014: Recovery Strengthens, Remains Uneven
Recovery Strengthens, Remains Uneven
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The world economy continues its slow recovery from the global financial crisis, but the main impetus for growth now lies with the advanced economies. The April 2014 WEO examines the causes and implications of recent trends, including increased financial volatility in emerging market economies, lower-than-expected...
World Economic Outlook, April 2014: Recovery Strengthens, Remains Uneven
Recovery Strengthens, Remains Uneven
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
The world economy continues its slow recovery from the global financial crisis, but the main impetus for growth now lies with the advanced economies. The April 2014 WEO examines the causes and implications of recent trends, including increased financial volatility in emerging market economies, lower-than-expected...
by Carol Yeh-Yun Lin, Leif Edvinsson, Jeffrey Chen
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the biggest event of worldwide proportion was the 2008 global financial crisis, which was caused primarily by ineffective governance, failed surveillance systems, and implementation flaws. While fiscal and monetary policies succeeded in pulling many...
Pension Reform in Six Countries
What Can We Learn From Each Other?
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
AxeI Borsch-Supan and Meinhard Miegel The provision of retirement income is a dynamic system that needs to be adapted constantly to the ever changing economic and societal environment. Sometimes, incremental adaptations suffice; sometimes, however, larger reform steps are necessary. We see this evolutionary...
Financial Integration
A Focus on the Mediterranean Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
The Arab upheaval and the world's biggest financial crisis after the Great Depression were almost simultaneous in their occurrence. The Mediterranean economies now face a dual challenge of a political and financial restructuring in the light of a shaky economic pedestal on which they stand. In...
Public Debt Management
Theory and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1990
As Europe proceeds towards economic and monetary union, fiscal convergence and the prospect of a common money are at the centre of discussion. This volume from the Centre for Economic Policy Research brings together theoretical, applied and historical research on the management of public debt and...
Termites of the State
Why Complexity Leads to Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
In Termites of the State, renowned public economist Vito Tanzi presents a sweeping account of the industrialized world's economic development during the twentieth century to today. In the tradition of grand economic histories, Tanzi connects the biggest issues of the modern world including extreme...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Despite numerous policy reforms since the 1980s, farm product prices remain heavily distorted in both high-income and developing countries. This book seeks to improve our understanding of why societies adopted these policies, and why some but not other countries have undertaken reforms. Drawing on...
by Farshad Ghodoosi
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Despite the unprecedented growth of arbitration and other means of ADR in treaties and transnational contracts in recent years, there remains no clearly defined mechanism for control of the system. One of the oldest yet largely marginalized concepts in law is the public policy exception. This doctrine...
Competitiveness, Social Inclusion and Sustainability in a Diverse European Union
Perspectives from Old and New Member States
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This book brings together the work of researchers in Eastern and Western Europe, who analyze competitiveness, social exclusion and sustainability from a range of perspectives. It examines the key challenges faced by the EU in its efforts to establish a socially inclusive and greener path to growth...
The Economics of Small Businesses
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Is small still beautiful? The recent economic and financial crisis has shown that developed countries in which firms are smaller suffered the biggest GDP plunges. Today, economic growth depends more than in the past on sound and well-organized firms, which means more innovation, a better educated...
Continental Impoverishment
The Effect of Extractive Institutions Resource Extraction, Neoliberal Policies, and Patrimonial Governance in African Nations and a Policy for Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Africa is a continent of contrasts, with some of the lowest literacy rates and nations with the highest number of people living in poverty. Yet beginning a few hundred years ago, this same continent was rich in resources coveted by more advanced nations, today’s wealthy Western and European countries....
Valuing the Cost of Smoking
Assessment Methods, Risk Perception and Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
CLAUDEJEANRENAUD NILS SOGUEL Smoking is a very common habit all over the world. The prevalence rate ranges from 20% - 40% in industrialised countries, and is dramatically increasing in the developing world. Smoking is risky and there is ample scientific evidence to support this statement. We know...