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  • Sharing Higher Education's Promise beyond the Few in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Peter Darvas, Shang Gao, Yijun Shen, Bilal Bawany ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Human Development
    Despite a spectacular expansion of the higher education sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, the supply of tertiary education has generally failed to keep pace with demand, and the region continues to lag behind all other regions in terms of access to tertiary education. This is in part a consequence of deeply entrenched patterns of inequitable access to higher education, and the perpetuation of what ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Handbook of Development Economics

    Edited by M.R. Rosenzweig, Dani Rodrick ...
    Series Book 5 - Handbooks in Economics
    What guidance does academic research really provide to economic policy development? The critical and analytical surveys in this volume investigate links between policies and outcomes by surveying work from broad macroeconomic policies to interventions in microfinance. Asserting that there are no universal correspondences between policies and outcomes, contributors demonstrate instead that only an ... Read more

    $145.59 CAD

  • Equality For Women: Where Do We Stand?

    by Buvinic Mayra; Morrison Andrew R.; Sjoblom Mirja; Ofosu-Amaah A. Waafas ...
    Upon signing the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the international community committed itself to eight development goals with timebound targets and measurable indicators. The third of these eight goals was to "promote gender equality and empower women". The third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) in the Millennium Declaration has spurred national and international efforts to improve women's ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • A Thousand Cuts

    Social Protection in the Age of Austerity

    by Alexandros Kentikelenis, Thomas Stubbs ...
    The dominant policy response to economic crises over the past four decades has been the introduction of austerity--a mix of budget cuts and reforms to downsize the role of the state. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been the world's lender of last resort and leading advocate of austerity, and has been consistently chastised by policymakers and civil society for the consequences of its ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • 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

    $22.99 CAD

  • Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016

    Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change

    by World Bank;International Monetary Fund ...
    Series series Global Monitoring Report
    The Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016, produced by the World Bank Group in partnership with the International Monetary Fund, comes at an inflection point in both the setting of global development goals and the demographic trends affecting those goals. This year marks the end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the launching of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while the World ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The New Politics of Old Age Policy

    Edited by Robert B. Hudson ...
    A comprehensive overview of current aging policies.As the average age of the U.S. population continues to increase, age-related policies have come under intense scrutiny, sparking heated debates. In the past, older people were seen as a frail, dependent population, but major policies enacted or expanded on their behalf have made them major players in electoral and interest-group politics. This ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Youth In Africa's Labor Market :

    by Garcia Marito H.; Fares Jean ...
    The authors examine the challenges facing Africa's youth in their transition from school to working life, and propose a strategy for meeting these challenges. Topics covered include the effect of education on employment and income, broadening employment opportunities, and enhancing youth capabilities. Labor is the most abundant asset of poor households in Africa. Developing this asset is therefore ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis

    Edited by José Antonio Alonso, José Antonio Ocampo ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt. While productive in and of themselves, these solutions were effective because they were coordinated internationally and were matched with sweeping global financial reforms. ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Human Cost of Recessions: Assessing It, Reducing It

    by Mai Dao, Prakash Mr. Loungani ...
    Series Book 2010 - IMF Staff Position Notes
    Recessions leave scars on the labor market. Over 200 million people across the globe are estimated to be unemployed at present resulting from the Great Recession of 2007–09. We assess the human cost of increased unemployment by surveying what is known about the effects of past recessions. If past is prologue, the cost to the unemployed (and society) could be high. The focus of this paper is on ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Political Economy of Public Policy

    A Concise Guide

    by Alena Kimakova ...
    The Political Economy of Public Policy equips students with the research skills needed to critically analyze emerging policy challenges using key economic and political frameworks. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book bridges the gap between economics and political science, breaking down disciplinary silos to offer a more holistic perspective on public policy.Challenging the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Labor Rights and Multinational Production

    by Layna Mosley ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Labor Rights and Multinational Production investigates the relationship between workers' rights and multinational production. Mosley argues that some types of multinational production, embodied in directly owned foreign investment, positively affect labor rights. But other types of international production, particularly subcontracting, can engender competitive races to the bottom in labor rights. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD