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Bridget Brennan, CEO of Female Factor, shows readers how to beat competitors and grow overall market share by applying the fundamentals of creating a customer experience that appeals to the most powerful consumer decision makers: women.

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A valuable contribution to tourism studies, women's studies, and the literature of economic development.

The premises of this unique collection of research are that women's roles in tourism are gendered, just as are their other roles in gendered societies;

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Globalisation is often considered as not only generating jobs, but also having a negative effect on those at the bottom of the labour supply chain. The author shows us exactly how globalisation has affected women engaged in insecure, invisible and low/unpaid garment work.

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Those promoting economic development in the Third World often disregard the disadvantaged position of women or lack adequate information to assess the role of women.

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Is the cancer patient an object of job discrimination He has compiled the best available text on what is becoming a major social concern.

The book, divided into two major sections, first provides an in-depth review of the available data on the work history of the cancer patient.

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What kinds of work will be available in the 1980s The authors answer such questions by examining a multitude of factors that will affect work decisions in the coming decade. Their findings will alert decision-makers in both private organizations and the government to the employment issues that dominate the 1980s.

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Contents include: Introduction and Summary; Public Policy Implications of Declining Old-Age Mortality; Aging the Ability to Work; Occupational Effects on the Health and Work Capacity of Older Men; Involuntary Early Retirement and Consumption; Life-Cycle Labor Supply and Social Security; and Life Insurance of the Elderly.

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Provides an in-depth study of agrarian capitalist developmental in Brazil. -- .

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Addressing the world debt crisis, the author proposes a method for overcoming the dilemma. He develops a useful framework with which to approach the world debt problem, focusing on his co-operation theory, which calls for a bilateral approach on the part of creditor and debtor countries.

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Set against the backdrop of deteriorating living conditions for hundreds of millions of people in developing and debtor countries, this volume concentrates on the structural adjustment policies designed to facilitate debt repayment and to stabilize indebted economies and the effects these policies have on the human rights of affected peoples.

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Examines the critical issues underlying the search for a new world economic paradigm.

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This book asks an important question: Can we simply accelerate growth under the assumption that increased prosperity and new technologies will allow us to reverse environmental damage Or do we need to transform our modes of living radically to maintain the health of the world around us

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This landmark study of economic history since World War II systematically explores why postwar trade and payments have evolved as they have, the prospects for their future evolution, and the range of policy adjustments likely to be required.

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Addresses just how to measure global inequality among individuals, and shows that inequality is shaped by complex forces often working in different directions. This work analyzes income distribution worldwide using household survey data from more than 100 countries.

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In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks.

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In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks.

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Offers an understanding of the dynamic evolution of the yield curve is critical to many financial tasks, including pricing financial assets and their derivatives, managing financial risk, allocating portfolios, structuring fiscal debt, and valuing capital goods. This title contains essential tools for academics, central banks, and more.

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A wonderful book: an engaging guide both to the flawed connection between current economics and the environment, as well as how they would work in a sustainable world.-Thomas E. Lovejoy, The World Bank

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A practical book which looks at the four distinct phases all small business go through as they grow, the challenges they face at each stage, and how to overcome them to create a long-lasting successful business.

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These essays, which focus on the critical issues that now confront the country in its continuing search for reform, stability, and unity, were written prior to recognition of the independence of Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina by countries of the European Community, the United States, and others.

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Jessica Irvine presents Economics 101 and shows you how to use the power of economics to solve your everyday problems with this witty, accessible and entertaining guide.