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This monograph highlights the benefits of public-private partnerships (PPP) for Sub-Saharan Africa. By studying the intertwinement of mainstream and Islamic finance, the author shows how PPPs have emerged as a viable and efficient organizational vehicle...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-15
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The Millennium Development Goals adopted by United Nations member states in 2000 were meant to improve a variety of situations affecting the well-being of their inhabitants by 2015: poverty, hunger, education, disease, gender equality and environmental sustainability....
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Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2019-02-27
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The literature surveys presented in this edited volume provide readers with up-to-date reviews on eleven contemporary topics in finance. Topics include unconventional monetary policy, implicit bank guarantees, and financial fraud - all linked to the exceptional event...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-02-27
Collection :
Surveys of Recent Research in Economics
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The economic influence of central banks has received ever more attention given their centrality during the financial crises that led to the Great Recession, strains in the European Union, and the challenges to the Euro.The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Central...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-15
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Taken from the first definitive introduction to behavioral economics, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis: Behavioral Time Discounting is an authoritative and cutting edge guide to this essential topic for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. It...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-14
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This first volume of The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis covers the opening topic found in this definitive introduction to the subject: the behavioral economics of risk, uncertainty, and ambiguity. It is an essential guide for advanced undergraduate and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-14
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Immiserizing growth occurs when growth fails to benefit, or harms, those at the bottom. It is not a new concept, appearing in some of the towering figures of the classical tradition of political economy including Malthus, Ricardo, and Marx. It is also not empirically...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-14
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Taken from the first definitive introduction to behavioral economics, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis: Other-Regarding Preferences is an authoritative and cutting edge guide to this essential topic for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. It...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-14
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The publication of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America has kindled interest across disciplines to appraise the exceptional nature of U.S. activities. In general, however, all the published works have not focused their analyses from an economic point of view....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-31
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This book offers an essential guide to Public Finance and National Accounts in the context of the European Union. Since the creation of the Eurozone, fiscal policy has been at the heart of economic (but also political/media) discussions in the EU. From the Stability and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-31
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This Palgrave Pivot uses Marxian economic categories and analysis to explore the deeper causes of the 2008 global economic crisis, what the crisis represents for capitalism, and why fiscal and monetary policies pursued in its wake have failed to rejuvenate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-01-28
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This book is the third installment in a series of volumes looking at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. Each chapter discusses citizens, special interests, and government officials responding to economic incentives in both markets...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-25
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Using a heterodox perspective, this book discusses the real possibilities of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico ever achieving economic development through industrialization. Through their discussion of the three most industrialized countries of Latin America, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-25
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Why do heroes fight each other?
Why do villains keep trying even though they almost never win?
Why don't heroes simply take over the world?
Economics and comics may seem to be a world apart. But in the hands of economics professor and comic book hero aficionado...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-24
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Why do heroes fight each other?
Why do villains keep trying even though they almost never win?
Why don't heroes simply take over the world?
Economics and comics may seem to be a world apart. But in the hands of economics professor and comic book hero aficionado...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-17
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This three volume series of intellectual biography considers the life, work and impact on economic, social and political theory of the Italian economist, sociologist and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923).This second volume follows Pareto from his...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-16
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This report is a partial result of the China’s Quarterly Macroeconometric Model (CQMM), a project developed and maintained by the Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR) at Xiamen University. The CMR is one of the Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-12
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Debates about whether to maintain or abolish slavery revolved around two key values: the morality of enslaving other human beings and the economic benefits and costs of slavery as compared to free labor. Various and conflicting arguments were presented by abolitionists,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-10
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From a war-torn and famine-plagued country at the beginning of the 1990s, Ethiopia is today emerging as one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa. Growth in Ethiopia has surpassed that of every other sub-Saharan country over the past decade and is forecast by the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-10
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From a war-torn and famine-plagued country at the beginning of the 1990s, Ethiopia is today emerging as one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa. Growth in Ethiopia has surpassed that of every other sub-Saharan country over the past decade and is forecast by the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-10
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