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  • Poor Protection

    The Role of Taxes and Social Benefits in the Developing World During Crises

    by Maria Jouste, Ravi Kanbur, Pia Rattenhuber, Jukka Pirttilä ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book examines the role of social protection and taxation systems in developing countries during times of crises. The main objective of the work is to promote understanding about proper crisis ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

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  • The Welfare State Revisited

    Edited by José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Handbook On Poverty And Inequality

    by Khandker Shahidur; Haughton Jonathan ...
    For anyone wanting to learn, in practical terms, how to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty, the Handbook is the place to start. Designed initially to support training courses on poverty analysis, it consists of explanatory text with numerous examples, interspersed with multiple-choice questions (to ensure active learning) and combined with extensive practical exercises using ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty

    Edited by Ashoka Mody, Catherine Pattillo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of financial systems and the political economy of budgetary decisions. Going beyond the traditional literature on poverty, this original book deals with themes of broad interest to both ... Read more

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  • 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

  • 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

  • Measuring Poverty around the World

    by Anthony B. Atkinson ...
    The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality—a critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world’s great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Globalisation and Poverty

    Channels and Policy Responses

    Edited by Maurizio Bussolo, Jeffery I Round ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    The consequences of globalization for the world's poor are uncertain and fierce rhetoric is dividing its supporters and detractors.The channels of effect of essentially macroeconomic shocks on the microeconomic position of individuals and households in poor countries are many and various. This book addresses three core issues: 1) what are the main channels of effect? 2) what are the lessons to be ... Read more

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  • The Impact Of MacroEconomic Policies On Poverty And Income Distribution: Macro-Micro Evaluation Techniques And Tools

    by Pereira da Silva Luiz A.; Bourguignon Francois; Bussolo Maurizio ...
    A companion to the bestseller, The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution, this title deals with theoretical challenges and cutting-edge macro-micro linkage models. The authors compare the predictive and analytical power of various macro-micro linkage techniques using the traditional RHG approach as a benchmark to evaluate standard policies, such as, a typical stabilization ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Inequality and Fiscal Policy

    by Benedict Mr. Clements, Ruud Mooij, Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Michael Mr. Keen ...
    The sizeable increase in income inequality experienced in advanced economies and many parts of the world since the 1990s and the severe consequences of the global economic and financial crisis have brought distributional issues to the top of the policy agenda. The challenge for many governments is to address concerns over rising inequality while simultaneously promoting economic efficiency and ... 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

  • The International Migration Of Women

    by World Bank; Schiff Maurice; Morrison Andrew R.; Sjoblom Mirja ...
    The current share of women in the world's international migrant population is close to one half. Despite the great number of female migrants and their importance for the development agenda in countries of origin, there has until recently been a striking lack of gender analysis in the economic literature on international migration and development. This volume makes a valuable contribution in this ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD