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  • Social Welfare in Socialist Countries

    Edición de John Dixon, David Macarov ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Comparative Social Welfare
    First published in 1992, this book analyses social welfare in eight socialist countries, at that time: Czechoslovakia, China, Cuba, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, North Korea and the Soviet Union. For each country it considers the ideological framework underlying the social welfare system and describes the historical development of both the system and the political and socio-economic context. Each ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Poverty

    A Persistent Global Reality

    This book addresses the long-standing global issue of poverty. An introductory chapter explores concepts and definitions of poverty, the subsequent chapters providing detailed examinations of poverty in ten different countries: UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malta, The Netherlands, The Philippines and Zimbabwe. Each chapter follows a consistent format, to facilitate comparison and ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

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  • International Impacts on Social Policy

    Short Histories in Global Perspective

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies and domestic factors have shaped the dynamics of social policy in various parts of the world at different points in time. Each chapter highlights a specific type of interdependence which has been identified to provide us with a nuanced understanding of specific ... Leer más

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  • Russian Economic Reform

    de James Leitzel ...
    Transitions from socialism to capitalism are complex, both in theory and practice. Russian Economic Reform enables the reader to come to a much better understanding of these momentous changes, by providing a clear and accessible account of the major features of transition. It argues that attempts to portray the reform process is a disaster are misconceived, because they fail to take account of ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe: Volume 2, 1870 to the Present

    Series series The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe
    Unlike most existing textbooks on the economic history of modern Europe, which offer a country-by-country approach, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe rethinks Europe's economic history since 1700 as unified and pan-European, with the material organized by topic rather than by country. This second volume tracks Europe's economic history through three major phases since 1870. The first ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over established approaches for studying social policy.The introductory chapter outlines the mechanism-based approach, which stands out by modularisation and a clear focus on actors. ... Leer más

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  • Transition Economics

    Two Decades On

    Celebrating twenty years of transition from socialism to capitalism, this book is designed to be the core textbook for undergraduate courses in transition economics and comparative economic systems. Given the passage of time, Transition Economics: Two Decades On reviews and accounts for the outcomes in the so-called transition economies and, from an academic perspective, takes the reader through ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy

    Edición de Michael Alexeev, Shlomo Weber ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    By 1999, Russia's economy was growing at almost 7% per year, and by 2008 reached 11th place in the world GDP rankings. Russia is now the world's second largest producer and exporter of oil, the largest producer and exporter of natural gas, and as a result has the third largest stock of foreign exchange reserves in the world, behind only China and Japan. But while this impressive economic growth ... Leer más

    $179.99 USD

  • From Communists to Foreign Capitalists

    The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe

    de Nina Bandelj ...
    From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering sociological treatment of the process of foreign direct investment (FDI). She demonstrates how ... Leer más

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  • Housing the New Russia

    In Housing the New Russia, Jane R. Zavisca examines Russia's attempts to transition from a socialist vision of housing, in which the government promised a separate, state-owned apartment for every family, to a market-based and mortgage-dependent model of home ownership. In 1992, the post-Soviet Russian government signed an agreement with the United States to create the Russian housing market. The ... Leer más

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  • Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities

    East Meets West

    Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities. While the levels of socio-economic segregation in European cities are still modest compared to some parts of the world, the poor are increasingly concentrating spatially within capital cities across Europe. An overlooked area of research, this book ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Extended Working Life Policies

    International Gender and Health Perspectives

    This open access book addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender, health status and job/ occupational characteristics that structure the capacity and outcomes associated with working longer. The volume starts with ... Leer más

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