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  • Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe

    Series series Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries
    What happens when cultural policy turns digital? Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe analyzes and compares different digital cultural policies of Europe.Through case studies of seven European countries (UK, Germany, Croatia, Sweden, Spain, Norway, and Switzerland) as well as the analysis of EU digital cultural policy, the book investigates what happens when cultural policy gets ... Read more

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  • Independent Evaluation Office, Annual Report 2003

    Series Book Independent Evaluation Office Reports - Independent Evaluation Office Reports
    This first Annual Report describes the activities of the IEO through the first full year of operation. The report provides a summary of the main findings and recommendations of the first three evaluation projects on the prolonged use of IMF resources, the role of the IMF in recent capital account crises, and the role of fiscal adjustment in IMF-supported programs. It also indicates the status of ... Read more

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  • The Last Mile

    Turning Public Policy Upside Down

    Series series Innovations, Practice and the Future of Public Policy in India
    The Last Mile explores the gaps and dichotomy between drafted policies and their implementation, and the last mile challenges which often make public services inaccessible to the poorest and most vulnerable sections of society. It provides an in-depth overview of the dynamics between communities, research and consultation and the implementation of policies for development.Rich in empirical data ... Read more

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  • The Piketty Task

    by Ed Conduit ...
    Piketty’s data describe the way that the pressure of investors for return on capital in low growth situations causes decline in real wages. The state can intervene to recoup some capital for the general good. In Britain the private housing market is taking up land from cash-strapped councils either to gain value while left empty or as buy-to-let. An alternative public housing model is outlined. ... Read more

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  • IEO Annual Report 2004

    Series Book Independent Evaluation Office Reports - Independent Evaluation Office Reports
    The second Annual Report of the IEO summarizes the findings and recommendations of two completed evaluation projects: on the IMF’s experience with the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and the role of the IMF in Argentina, 1991-2001. It also discusses the status of ongoing evaluations, and identifies potential candidates for the menu from which future ... Read more

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  • Commitment to Equity Handbook

    Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty

    Edited by Nora Lustig ...
    A how-to guide for assessing the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and povertyInequality has emerged in recent years as a major topic of economic and political discussion, but it is often unclear whether governments can or should do something about it, and if so, what that something might be. This unique volume, edited by Nora Lustig, an equity expert at Tulane University, helps fill that void ... Read more

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  • Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World

    Socioeconomic Opportunities and Challenges

    As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, this book explores current migration and integration challenges. Against the background of long-term migration trends, it asks whether the pandemic has changed the patterns observed, transformed the circumstances international migrants face at destination or whether the opportunities and challenges for integration have been altered. Twenty-four ... Read more

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  • Global Digital Data Governance

    Polycentric Perspectives

    This book provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary digital data governance, highlighting the importance of cooperation across sectors and disciplines in order to adapt to a rapidly evolving technological landscape. Most of the theory around global digital data governance remains scattered and focused on specific actors, norms, processes, or disciplinary approaches. This book argues for a ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics

    Sovereignty and state power in a multipolar world

    Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics is concerned with the nature of corporate power against the backdrop of the decline of the West and the struggle by non-western states to challenge and overcome domination of the rest of the world by the West. This book argues that although the US continues to preside over a quasi-imperial system of power based on global military preponderance and financial ... Read more

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  • How to Create An Economic Democracy

    In 1620 Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum introduced a new scientific method of investigating nature. In 1690 John Locke used the new scientific method to discover how to create political democracy. In this book the author uses Bacon’s scientific method and the trail blazed by Locke to discover how to create economic democracy. ... Read more

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  • IEO Annual Report 2011

    Series Book Independent Evaluation Office Reports - Independent Evaluation Office Reports

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  • The Soybean Through World History

    Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems

    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization.The book uses a historical lens to analyze the processes and features that brought us to the current global configuration of the soybean commodity chain. From its origins as a peasant food in ancient China, today the protein ... Read more

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  • IEO Annual Report, 2007

    Series Book Independent Evaluation Office Reports - Independent Evaluation Office Reports
    The IEO’s latest Annual Report covers its activities during the financial year ended April 2007. It summarizes the most recent IEO evaluations of The IMF and Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa and IMF Exchange Rate Policy Advice. The report also presents messages that are common to many IEO evaluations and are particularly noteworthy as the IMF proceeds with the implementation of its Medium-Term Strategy. ... Read more

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  • Entwicklung und Wandel in der Gesundheitspolitik

    20. Bad Orber Gespraeche ueber kontroverse Themen im Gesundheitswesen

    Series Book 72 - Allokation im marktwirtschaftlichen System
    Dieser Band der Bad Orber Gespräche 2015 enthält die erweiterten Referate eines interdisziplinären Workshops zum Thema „Entwicklung und Wandel in der Gesundheitspolitik". Vertreter des Deutschen Bundestages, des Gemeinsamen Bundesausschusses, des GKV-Spitzenverbandes, der Krankenkassen, der Kassenärztlichen Bundesvereinigung, der pharmazeutischen Industrie und der Wissenschaft erörtern Probleme ... Read more

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  • Wealth and Power

    Philosophical Perspectives

    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Is political equality viable when a capitalist economy unequally distributes private property? This book examines the nexus between wealth and politics and asks how institutions and citizens should respond to it.Theories of democracy and property have often ignored the ways in which the rich attempt to convert their wealth into political power, implicitly assuming that politics is isolated from ... Read more

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  • The Forum of Federations Handbook of Fiscal Federalism

    Edited by Jean-François Tremblay ...
    This open access handbook compares fiscal federalism arrangements in eleven federal/ decentralized countries. Each chapter examines an individual country, laying out its constitutional design as relates to fiscal powers and the division of those powers between levels of government. Specifically, the analyses consider powers of taxation, spending, regulation, and more. Focusing on Australia, Brazil ... Read more

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  • The Downfall of the American Order?

    The Downfall of the American Order? offers penetrating insight into the emerging global political economy at this moment of an increasingly chaotic world.For seventy-five years, the basic patterns of world politics and the contours of international economic activity took place in the shadow of American leadership and the institutions it designed—an order designed to avoid the horrors of previous ... Read more

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  • Global Governance and International Cooperation

    Managing Global Catastrophic Risks in the 21st Century

    The Global Governance Forum and the Global Challenges Foundation collaborate in this collection in their concern that the UN Charter and the contemporary infrastructure for international cooperation are no longer fit for purpose and lack the instruments, resources and legitimacy to address the catastrophic risks threatening our future.Twenty-eight contributors offer thoughtful proposals for ... Read more

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  • Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy

    by Sami Moisio ...
    We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and geopolitics, examining a wide range of themes, including city geopolitics and the university as a ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of the 2022 Brawijaya International Conference (BIC 2022)

    Series Book 235 - Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
    This is an open access book.We proudly present the 2022 Brawijaya International Conference (BIC) as the consecutive series of conferences that is organised and hosted annually by Univeritas Brawijaya, Indonesia. The BIC 2022 will be held in Bali, Indonesia, on October 7 – 9, 2022. The conference committee consists of multi department of Univeritas Brawijaya. The BIC 2022 will present ... Read more

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  • A World without Capitalism?

    Alternative Discourses, Spaces, and Imaginaries

    In this book, Christian W. Chun examines the ways in which identities, discourses, and topographies of both capitalist and anti-capitalist imaginaries and realities are embodied in the everyday practices of people. A World without Capitalism? is a sociolinguistic ethnography that explores the heretofore limited research in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics on the discursive and materialized ... Read more

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  • Reclaiming Socialism, or: Economic Democracy (Recovering a Stolen Word)

    by Brian Rush ...
    Imagine getting up in the morning and going to work for a company that, just by virtue of the fact that you work for it, you own part of. Imagine that the company’s president and other officers have to stand for election every year or two years, and you and all the other employees of the company vote them in or out. Imagine getting an accounting on a quarterly basis of the company’s profitability ... Read more

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  • Hayek, Mill and the Liberal Tradition

    Edited by Andrew Farrant ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.This book considers the relationship between Hayek and Mill, taking issues with Hayek’s criticism of Mill ... Read more

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  • Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

    Series series Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being
    This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to reduce multidimensional poverty through socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable measures. Asia is facing many challenges arising from population growth, rapid urbanization, provision of services, climate change and the need to redress declining growth after the ... Read more

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