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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “birgit kuschke”
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  • Insurance and Human Rights

    Edited by Margarida Lima Rego, Birgit Kuschke ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume examines the impact of and interplay between human rights and insurance.National, supranational and international legal instruments regulating the taking-up and pursuit of the business of insurance and reinsurance, (re)insurance distribution and the insurance contract often refer to or impact on human or fundamental rights. Courts are often faced with the sometimes seemingly impossible ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

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  • The Economics of Poverty

    History, Measurement, and Policy

    by Martin Ravallion ...
    There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those 30 years. Progress has been slow against relative ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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  • Regulation

    Legal Form and Economic Theory

    by Professor Anthony I Ogus ...
    This is a reprint of Anthony Ogus' classic study of regulation,first published in the 1990s. It examines how, since the last decades of the twentieth century there have been fundamental changes in the relationship between the state and industry. With the aid of economic theory Anthony Ogus critically examines the ways in which public law has been adapted to the task of regulating industrial ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD

  • Class Actions in Canada

    The Promise and Reality of Access to Justice

    by Jasminka Kalajdzic ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Whatever deficits remain in the Canadian project to make justice available to all, class actions have been heralded as a success. The theme of access to justice runs throughout the discourse on collective litigation, but what do access and justice mean in this context?Class actions have been employed over the past several decades to overcome barriers for those who would otherwise have no recourse ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Financial Development and Economic Growth in Malaysia

    by James B. Ang ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    This book is concerned with the role of financial intermediation in economic development and growth in the context of Malaysia. Using an analytical framework, the author investigates the Malaysian economy from 1960 onwards to examine how far financial development has progressed in the course of economic development, and whether it has been instrumental in promoting economic growth.A significant ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Big Data and the Welfare State

    How the Information Revolution Threatens Social Solidarity

    by Torben Iversen, Philipp Rehm ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    A core principle of the welfare state is that everyone pays taxes or contributions in exchange for universal insurance against social risks such as sickness, old age, unemployment, and plain bad luck. This solidarity principle assumes that everyone is a member of a single national insurance pool, and it is commonly explained by poor and asymmetric information, which undermines markets and creates ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • A Primer on Property Tax

    Administration and Policy

    Edited by William J. McCluskey, Gary C. Cornia, Lawrence C. Walters ...
    'The chapters in this book explore in detail the choices regarding both the structure and administration of the property tax, drawing on the extensive knowledge the authors have acquired in studying property taxes around the world. The chapters provide a wide-ranging treatment of the design choices and administrative tasks, both in terms of the breadth of design options and administrative tasks ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

  • Environmental Impact Assessment

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Peter Wathern ...
    This comprehensive treatment of environmental impact assessment (EIA) provides an authoritative contemporary review of theory and practice over the past ten years. EIA is viewed as both science and art, reflecting the concern both with technical aspects of appraisal and the effects of EIA on the decision-making process. Adopted in many countries, with different degrees of enthusiasm, since its ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Handbook of Law and Economics

    Edited by A. Mitchell Polinsky, Steven Shavell ...
    Series Book 2 - Handbooks in Economics
    Law can be viewed as a body of rules and legal sanctions that channel behavior in socially desirable directions — for example, by encouraging individuals to take proper precautions to prevent accidents or by discouraging competitors from colluding to raise prices. The incentives created by the legal system are thus a natural subject of study by economists. Moreover, given the importance of law to ... Read more

    $150.39 CAD

  • The Global Limits of Competition Law

    Edited by D. Daniel Sokol, Ioannis Lianos ...
    Series series Global Competition Law and Economics
    Over the last three decades, the field of antitrust law has grown increasingly prominent, and more than one hundred countries have enacted competition law statutes. As competition law expands to jurisdictions with very different economic, social, cultural, and institutional backgrounds, the debates over its usefulness have similarly evolved.This book, the first in a new series on global ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy

    Edited by Henry Peter, Giedre Lideikyte Huber ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy ventures into a territory that is still widely unexplored. It contains 30 academic contributions that aim to provide a better understanding of whether, why, and how philanthropic initiatives, understood as voluntary contributions for the common good, can and should be fostered by states through tax incentives. The topic has been addressed from a ... Read more

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  • The Regional Integration Manual

    Quantitative and Qualitative Methods

    Edited by Philippe De Lombaerde, Renato Flores, Lelio Iapadre, Michael Schulz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    The Regional Integration Manual brings together different methods for monitoring and analysing regional integration processes in a systematic way. Employing a multi-disciplinary approach, it seeks to provide officials in regional organisations, researchers in think tanks, academics and students worldwide with an accessible set of both quantitative and qualitative tools, useful in their day-to-day ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD