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  • Socialist Welfare in a Market Economy

    Social Security Reforms in Guangzhou, China

    by Yongxin Zhou, Nelson Chow, Yeubin Xu ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. Using the city of Guangzhou as a case study, this text looks at how China has adopted a market economy, whilst still maintaining state-owned enterprises and an all-embracing social security system which protects the majority of Chinese workers. This volume examines three questions: can socialist social welfare co-exist with the market economy?; can state ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Dancing with the Dead

    Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa

    by Christopher T. Nelson, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of Okinawan storytellers, ethnographers, musicians, and dancers deeply engaged with the legacies of a brutal Japanese colonial era, the almost unimaginable ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word

    A Different Take on Taxes in Canada

    Edited by Alex Himelfarb, Jordan Himelfarb ...
    Series Book 3 - Canadian Commentaries
    Taxes connect us to one another, to the common good, and to the future. This is a book about taxes: who pays what and who gets what. More than that, it’s about the role of government, about citizenship and our collective well-being, about the Canada we want. The contributors, leading Canadian practitioners and scholars, explore how taxes have become a political “no-go zone” and how changes in ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • The Globalization of Inequality

    by François Bourguignon ...
    Why national and international equality matter and what we can do to ensure a fairer worldIn The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker François Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard of over half a billion people in emerging nations such as China, India, and Brazil, and the ... Read more

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  • Reclaiming Development

    An Alternative Economic Policy Manual

    by Ha-Joon Chang, Ilene Grabel ...
    Series series Global Issues
    There is no alternative to neoliberal economics - or so it appeared when Reclaiming Development was published in 2004. Many of the same driving assumptions - monetarism and globalization - remain within the international development policy establishment. Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel confront this neoliberal development model head-on by combining devastating economic critique with an array of ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Against the Consensus

    Reflections on the Great Recession

    by Justin Yifu Lin ...
    In June 2008, Justin Yifu Lin was appointed Chief Economist of the World Bank, right before the eruption of the worst global financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. Drawing on experience from his privileged position, Lin offers unique reflections on the cause of the crisis, why it was so serious and widespread, and its likely evolution. Arguing that conventional theories provide ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Public Finance In China: Reform And Growth For A Harmonious Society

    by Jiwei Lou; Shuilin Wang ...
    This book brings together analysis and insights from high-level Chinese policy-makers and prominent international scholars in addressing the key challenges China is facing in maintaining rapid growth and achieving the Government's stated goal of creating a harmonious society. It analyzes such key policy issues as: public finance and the changing role of the state; fiscal reform and revenue and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Managing Development

    Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Social Policy

    Edited by Junji Nakagawa ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Globalization in the 1990s provided both opportunities and challenges for developing and transition economies. Though for some, it offered the chance to achieve economic growth through active involvement in the integrated and liberalized world economy, it also increased their vulnerability to external shocks and volatility.As a consequence, stakeholders at every level of the development and ... Read more

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  • Worlds Apart

    Measuring International and Global Inequality

    by Branko Milanovic ...
    We are used to thinking about inequality within countries--about rich Americans versus poor Americans, for instance. But what about inequality between all citizens of the world? Worlds Apart addresses just how to measure global inequality among individuals, and shows that inequality is shaped by complex forces often working in different directions. Branko Milanovic, a top World Bank economist, ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Urbanization And Growth

    by Buckley Robert M.; Clarke Annez Patricia; Spence Michael ...
    • Why is productivity higher in cities? • Does urbanization cause growth or does growth cause urbanization? • Do countries achieve rapid growth or high incomes without urbanization? • How can policy makers reap the benefits of urbanization without paying too high a cost? • Does supporting urbanization imply neglecting rural areas? • Why do so few governments welcome urbanization? • What should ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Catch Up

    Developing Countries in the World Economy

    by Deepak Nayyar ...
    Catch Up analyzes the evolution of developing countries in the world economy from a long-term historical perspective, from the onset of the second millennium but with a focus on the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century. It is perhaps among the first to address this theme on such a wide canvas that spans both time and space. In doing so, it ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Chinese Economists on Economic Reform - Collected Works of Guo Shuqing

    by Guo Shuqing ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    China Development Research Foundation is one the leading economic think tanks in China, providing a base where many leading Chinese economists have developed the details of Chinese economic reform. This book is the second of a series which makes available to an English-speaking audience the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of reform. The series provides an inside ... Read more

    $70.99 USD