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Declining aid budgets have led to fundamental questioning of foreign aid's allocation and utility, while the apparent ineffectiveness of aid has shrunk aid budgets and turned public opinion against providing it.

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The book is action-oriented and empowering, presenting concrete proposals that could reduce the most deplorable global inequalities. It asks: how did we get here; where do we want to go instead; and how do we get there

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The book is action-oriented and empowering, presenting concrete proposals that could reduce the most deplorable global inequalities. It asks: how did we get here; where do we want to go instead; and how do we get there

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New Tides in the Pacific includes essays by prominent scholars from different countries examining prospects for cooperation in the Pacific basin. The volume as a whole emphasizes the gradually emerging framework of cooperation between the countries of the Pacific, and reflects the slow but steady growth of the cooperative process.

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The policy innovations and experiments incorporated in America in response to various developments in the labour market are discussed in this text. The author also considers France, Germany, UK, Sweden, Japan and the Soviet Union.

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Provides a guide to policy priorities in small or regional economies. This work combines some of the world's leading economists' research insights with a discussion of the practicalities of implementing structural reforms. It is aimed at policymakers and scholars seeking avenues to improved growth, greater opportunity, and better governance.

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Reveals widespread problems in home mortgage lending in America, the common threads among people who file for bankruptcy, the reasons so many households are unbanked, and how behaviourally informed financial regulation can make the market work better.

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The authors, leading researchers in the fields of mathematical economics and methodology, present the first comprehensive synthesis of literature on qualitative and other nonparametric techniques, which are important elements of comparative statics and stability analysis in economic theory. The topics covered show how to assess the comparative stat

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Tailored to the needs of applied econometricians and social scientists, this work emphasizes nonparametric techniques suited to the rich array of data types - continuous, nominal, and ordinal - within one coherent framework. It also covers the various material necessary to understand and apply nonparametric methods for real-world problems.

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Tailored to the needs of applied econometricians and social scientists, this work emphasizes nonparametric techniques suited to the rich array of data types - continuous, nominal, and ordinal - within one coherent framework. It also covers the various material necessary to understand and apply nonparametric methods for real-world problems.

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Reviews the available literature on the effects of NAFTA on the three member countries and the world trading system. Experts evaluate how NAFTA will affect areas such as economic growth, employment, income distribution, industry, and agriculture in Canada, Mexico, and the United States; and consider the significance the trade agreement holds for the rest of the world.

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While conceding that President Reagan has sometimes opposed Friedman's recommendations, the author argues that by examining which Reagan proposals deviated from Friedman's laissez-faire line we can gain insight into the Presidet's real objectives as distinguished from the goals contained in his free-market rhetoric.

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John Komlos examines the industrial expansion of Austria from a fresh viewpoint and develops a new model for the industrial revolution. By integrating recent advances in the study of human biology and nutrition as they relate to physical stature, population growth, and levels of economic development, he reveals an intense Malthusian crisis in the H

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This book explains that efforts to reverse Africa's continuing underdevelopment have failed to date because they have not been consciously aimed at enabling Africa to turn its vast natural resources into wealth; here, Malunga proposes a five step strategy enabling the continent revolutionize and improve the system.

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In it, Salazar-Carrillo provides estimates that have not been published previously on the Venezuelan economy in general, and the oil component in particular. Evolution of the oil industry in Venezuela is covered in detail and the concept of the retained value of oil expenditures and tnvestment is developed.

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He explores facets of the expatriate experience that have received little treatment elsewhere: the labor pyramid, the relationship between expatriate and host country labor force, the commercial/industrial environment, bargaining position and risk, and the governments of countries sending labor overseas.

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This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Middle East political economy in response to the oil price decline in 2014. Based on a heuristic framework inspired by rentierism, the volume contains original studies on Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.