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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781800379732
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Urban violence, resilience and security
    DDC: 303.6091732
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    Keywords: Urban violence ; Urban policy ; Developing countries Economic conditions ; Developing countries Social conditions ; Developing countries ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Lateinamerika ; Asien ; Afrika ; Kriminalgeografie ; Stadtsoziologie ; Stadtentwicklung ; Urbanität ; Gewalttätigkeit
    Abstract: "Written in a comprehensive yet accessible style, Urban Violence, Resilience and Security investigates the diverse nature of urban violence within Latin America, Asia and Africa. It further analyzes how regular and irregular governing mechanisms can provide human security, despite the presence of chronic violence. The empirically rich and conceptually grounded contributions of established and emerging scholars evaluate the current state and future trajectory of urban development. They also question common explanations of the drivers of violence in urban areas and also provide measured recommendations for improved policy and future governance. Chapters thoroughly examine the opportunities and hazards of focusing on resilience as the only method to improve security and identify governance and policy practices that can move beyond the rhetoric of resilience to evaluate diverse approaches to attaining human security in urban areas of the Global South. This invigorating book will be an excellent resource for academic researchers interested in urban dynamics in the Global South as well as scholars embarking on geography, human security, political science and policy studies. Based on a set of original case studies, policymakers will also benefit from the questions and challenges to the conventional approaches to urban planning and governance that it raises"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword / Ariel C. Armony -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction to urban violence, resilience and security / Michael R. Glass, Taylor B. Seybolt and Phil Williams -- Part I: Conceptual approaches to urban violence, resilience and security -- 2. Urban violence in the global south: Drug traffickers, gangs, and organized crime / Phil Williams -- 3. Urban resilience for the 21st century / Savannah Cox -- 4. Urban governance in conflict zones: Contentious politics, not "resilience" / Daniel E. Esser -- 5. Building effective and acceptable security-driven urban resilience / Jon Coaffee -- 6. Fragility and pernicious resilience in urban Latin America and the Caribbean / Enrique Desmond Arias -- Part II: Dimensions of urban vulnerability and resilience in the global south -- 7. Feral cities and the normative dimension of violence: Caracas and the Latin American city / Roberto Briceño-León -- 8. Xenophobic violence, displacement, and reintegration: A case study of female migrants in isipingo, durban, South Africa / Kim Gounder and Brij Maharaj -- 9. Shoot first, ask later: Violence and anti-crime policies in Mexico's cuidad juárez and pakistan's karachi / Vanda Felbab-Brown -- 10. Strain between two worlds: A sociological approach to the rise and fall of crime and violence in guatemala city / Daniel Núñez -- 11. Criminal victimization and social resilience in Latin America / Eduardo Moncada -- Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical eferences and index
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781788116152
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 460 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Research handbooks in urban studies series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Handbook on urban social policies
    DDC: 307.76
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    Keywords: Urban policy ; Public welfare ; Public welfare ; Social policy ; Urban policy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Stadt ; Sozialpolitik
    Abstract: "The importance of subnational welfare measures, and their complex embeddedness in wider multilevel governance systems, has often been underplayed in both urban studies and social policy analysis. This Handbook gives readers the analytical tools to understand urban social policies in context and bridges the gap in research. It provides a novel perspective of social policy analysis, answering the common debates such as: what is the role of local institutions in welfare provisions? Do they exert an influence beyond their jurisdiction? What difference can we trace among different types of locales (e.g. urban vs. rural)? How does the role of cities change in different national regulatory systems? Chapters disentangle the interplay between jurisdictions, politics, policy instruments and contexts in the spatial construction of social policies. Thanks to the impressive selection of contributors, the volume discusses urban social policies with broad geographical coverage including cases from Europe, North America, South America and Asia, and provides cursory references to the COVID-19 pandemic in different policy fields. This book will be of interest to a broad range of students in different fields from welfare to urban studies, as well as those interested in multilevel governance and policy analysis. Scholars interested in comparative social policy, but also in social innovation, public administration and political science, will also find this book a good companion"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction to urban social policies: International perspectives on multilevel governance and local welfare / Yuri Kazepov, Eduardo Barberis, Roberta Cucca and Elisabetta Mocca -- Part I: Localizing risk and vulnerability -- 2. Localizing new social risks / Costanzo Ranci and Lara Maestripieri -- 3. Territorial welfare governance changes: Concepts and explanatory factors / Eloísa del Pino, Luis Moreno and Jorge Hernández-Moreno -- 4. The territorial dimension of social investment in Europe / Yuri Kazepov and Ruggero Cefalo -- 5. Urban social innovation and the European city: Assessing the changing urban welfare mix and its scalar articulation / Stijn Oosterlynck and Tatiana Saruis -- 6. Citizenship practices and co-production of local social policies in southern Europe / Ana Belén Cano-Hila, Marc Pradel-Miquel and Marisol García -- 7. The transformation of the local welfare system in European cities / Alberta Andreotti, Enzo Mingione and Emanuele Polizzi -- Part II: The local dimension of targeted social policies -- 8. Care as multi-scalar policy: Ecec and ltc services across Europe / Marco Arlotti and Stefania Sabatinelli -- 9. Poverty and multi-layered social assistance in Europe / Sarah Marchal and Bea Cantillon -- 10. Institutional logics of service provision: The national and urban governance of activation policies in three European countries / Vanesa Fuertes, Martin Heidenreich and Ronald McQuaid -- 11. The local dimension of housing policies / Christoph Reinprecht -- 12. Migration policies at the local level: Constraints and windows of opportunities in a contentious field / Eduardo Barberis and Alba Angelucci -- 13. Segregation, neighbourhood effects and social mix policies / Sako Musterd -- 14. Local segregation patterns and multilevel education policies / Willem Boterman and Isabel Ramos Lobato -- Part III: The instruments of local social policies -- 15. Local governance and street-level bureaucracy: The ground floor of social policy / Peter Hupe and Trui Steen -- 16. National-regional-local shifting games in multi-tiered welfare states / Giuliano Bonoli and Philipp Trein -- 17. Social work and community work / Stefan Köngeter and Christian Reutlinger -- 18. New public management-inspired public sector reforms and evaluation: Long-term care provisions in European countries / Hellmut Wollmann -- 19. Public participation and social policies in contemporary cities / Roberta Cucca -- 20. Territorial effects of EU policies: Which social outcomes at the local level? / Iván Tosics and Laura Colini -- Part IV: Examples of urban social policies around the world -- 21. Soziale stadt (social city) / Simon Güntner -- 22. The rescaling of social policies in the post-yugoslav space: Welfare parallelism and local state capture / Paul Stubbs and Sinisa Zrinščak -- 23. States of welfare: Decentralization and its consequences in us social policy / Sarah K. Bruch and Colin Gordon -- 24. Urban social protection in southern Africa / Jeremy Seekings -- 25. Social policies and security in favelas and urban peripheries of brazilian cities / Eduardo Marques and Marta Arretche -- 26. Innovative (local) social policies in China / Daniel R. Hammond -- 27. Urban and local social policies in the nordic countries / Håkan Johansson -- 28. The challenges of activation policies in Japan and their local dimension / Miki Tsutsui and Shuhei Naka -- Index.
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  • 3
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    ISBN: 9781839104572
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 544 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Elgar handbooks in migration
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Handbook on migration and welfare
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    Keywords: Emigration and immigration Handbooks, manuals, etc Political aspects ; Welfare state ; Electronic books ; Migration ; Migrationspolitik ; Sozialpolitik ; Wohlfahrtsstaat
    Abstract: "Bringing together prominent scholars in the field, this Handbook provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex interrelationship between migration and welfare. Chapters explore the extent to which immigration policy affects - and is affected by - welfare states, from both economic and political perspectives. This Handbook also examines the effects of emigration on sending societies exploring issues such as the impact of remittances, diasporas, and skill deterioration as a result of human capital flight on capacity building and on economic and political development more generally. Contributors draw on both qualitative and quantitative research to illuminate the contours and patterns of this complex relationship. This includes the assumed tension-reducing role of multiculturalist and integration policies, the shaping of native beliefs about migrants by socio-economic constraints and the potential for the extension of social rights to migrants to influence and increase pro-redistributive attitudes. Investigating the drivers of welfare chauvinism and its effects on social trust between native and immigrant groups, the Handbook also provides insights into the latest theoretical and empirical findings regarding the progressive's dilemma, one of the most formidable policy challenges leaders of modern societies face. Breaking new theoretical and empirical ground, this cutting-edge Handbook is essential reading for academics, researchers and students in political science, economics, sociology, social policy and political philosophy, particularly those focused on global migration and changing attitudes to welfare. It will also benefit policymakers looking for new data and pioneering perspectives on immigration policy and the future of welfare states in a changing world economy"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction to the handbook on migration and welfare: The contours of contested concepts / Markus M. L. Crepaz -- Part I: Taking stock: Migration and the state of the welfare state -- 1. Managing migration in modern welfare states: One-size policy does not fit all / Pieter Bevelander and James F. Hollifield -- 2. Economics or politics? Assessing immigration as a challenge to the welfare state / Maureen A. Eger -- 3. Migration, diversity, and the welfare state: Moving beyond attitudes / Patrick R. Ireland -- Part II: Is social homogeneity a precondition for redistribution? -- 4. Why share with strangers? Reflections on a variety of perspectives / Matthew Wright -- 5. The boundaries of generosity: Membership, inclusion, and redistribution / Allison Harell, Will Kymlicka, and Keith Banting -- 6. Immigration and preferences for redistribution: Empirical evidence and political implications of the progressive's dilemma in Europe / Elie Murard -- 7. When does immigration shape support for a universal basic income? The role of education and employment status / Anthony Kevins -- 8. Welfare chauvinist or neoliberal opposition to immigrant welfare? The importance of measurement in the study of welfare chauvinism / Edward Anthony Koning -- 9. Personal and contextual foundations of welfare chauvinism in western Europe / Conrad Ziller and Romana Careja -- Part III: Political institutions and policies as shapers of the welfare-migration context -- 10. Framing matters: Pathways between policies, immigrant integration, and native attitudes / Anita Manatschal -- 11. The politics of multiculturalism and redistribution: Immigration, accommodation, and solidarity in diverse democracies / Keith Banting, Daniel Westlake, and Will Kymlicka -- 12. The politicization of immigration and welfare: The progressive's dilemma, the rise of far-right parties, and challenges for the left / Maureen A. Eger and Joakim Kulin -- 13. Inclusive solidarity? The social democratic dilemma: Between EU rules and supporters' preferences / Zoe Lefkofridi and Susanne Rhein -- 14. Institutional sources of trust resilience in diverse societies: The mitigating role of inclusive and egalitarian welfare state institutions / Elif Naz Kayran and Melanie Kolbe -- 15. Inequality, immigration, and welfare regimes: Untangling the connections / Christel Kesler -- 16. Welfare states and migration policy: The main challenges for scholarship / Frida Bor.ng, Sara Kalm, and Johannes Lindvall -- Part IV: Political culture, migration, and redistribution -- 17. What explains opposition to immigration: Economic anxiety, cultural threat, or both? / Hanna Kleider -- 18. Economic resentment or cultural malaise: What accounts for nativist sentiments in contemporary liberal democracies? / Hans-Georg Betz -- 19. Does contact with strangers matter? / Eric M. Uslaner -- 20. A world to win at work? An integrated approach to meaningful interethnic contact / Katerina Manevska, Roderick Sluiter, and Agnes Akkerman -- 21. Constructing national identity and generalized trust in diverse democracies / Patti Tamara Lenard -- 22. Critically different or similarly critical? The roots of welfare state criticism among ethnic minority and majority citizens in Belgium / Arno Van Hootegem, Koen Abts, and Bart Meuleman -- Part V: The view from the global south: the effects of migration on origin countries -- 23. The janus face of remittances: Do remittances support or undermine development in the global south? / Farid Makhlouf and Oussama Ben Atta -- 24. Tracing the links between migration and food security in Bangladesh / Mohammad Moniruzzaman and Margaret Walton-Roberts -- 25. Migration as a development strategy: Debating the role that migrants and those in diaspora can play / Elizabeth Mavroudi -- 26. The migration-development nexus under scrutiny / Ra.l Delgado Wise -- Index
    Note: Enthält Literaturangaben und Index
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781803925134 , 1803925132
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 153 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme , 22 cm
    Series Statement: Elgar dialogues
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Moulaert, Frank Political change through social innovation
    DDC: 303.484
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    Keywords: Social change ; Political participation ; Democracy ; Democracy ; Political participation ; Social change ; Demokratisierung ; Politische Beteiligung ; Sozialinnovation ; Sozialer Wandel
    Note: Enthält bibliografische Angaben und Index (Seite 148-153)
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781788116145
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 460 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Series Statement: Research handbooks in urban studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Handbook on urban social policies
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    DDC: 307.76
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    Keywords: Urban policy ; Public welfare ; Social policy ; Public welfare ; Social policy ; Urban policy ; Stadt ; Sozialpolitik
    Note: Enthält bibliografische Angaben und Index (Seite 444-460)
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781802209433 , 1802209433
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 270 Seiten
    Series Statement: Elgar monographs in constitutional and administrative law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Partlett, William The Post-Soviet as post-colonial
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    Keywords: Russland ; Verfassung ; Rechtsvergleich ; Transformation
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 248-259. - Index
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781782548287
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 179 Seiten)
    Series Statement: European security and justice critiques
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kaunert, Christian The European Union as a global counter-terrorism actor
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    Keywords: Terrorism Prevention ; Internationaler Terrorismus ; Terrorismus ; Bekämpfung ; Securitization ; Internationale Organisation ; Politik ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Staatensystem ; Politisches Mandat ; Entwicklung ; Fallstudie
    Abstract: Analysing one of the most important policy areas of European integration, authors Christian Kaunert, Alex MacKenzie and Sarah Leonard consider the key question of why the EU may have become a global actor in counter-terrorism. The authors then develop a unique theoretical approach in the form of actorness and collective securitization, which analyses the EU's evolution as a counter-terrorism actor in different case studies, such as counter-terrorism in the transatlantic relationship, North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. Overall, this book highlights that the EU is, in fact, becoming a counter-terrorism actor of growing importance and with an ever-diversifying number of policy options available.
    Note: Enthält Litaeraturangaben und Index , EU counter-terrorism, collective securitization, and global actorness , The collective securitization of terrorism in the EU , Institutions in EU counter-terrorism , Counter-terrorism in the transatlantic relationship , EU counter-terrorism and South Asia , EU counter-terrorism, Iraq, and Syria
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9781035305742
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Governance by evaluation for sustainable development
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    Keywords: Nachhaltige Entwicklung ; Good Governance ; Bewertung ; Entscheidung ; EU-Staaten ; Sustainable development ; Environmental education ; Decision making
    Abstract: This path-breaking book provides balanced and comprehensive coverage of current research and practice on the role of evaluation in supporting governance for sustainable development and learning. This accessible study draws lessons from how evaluation studies and evaluation systems advance the agendas of sustainable development and good governance. Such studies open up decision-making processes to stakeholders, supporting evidence-based, coherent and transparent decision-making, integrating concerns of the three domains of sustainable development into decision-making and supporting learning and capacity building. It assesses how political-administrative realities affect the design and use of evaluation studies as well as the institutionalization of monitoring and evaluation systems. The contributors expertly review recent European experience with evaluation at the EU, national, regional and local levels which will appeal to researchers specializing in regional, political and sustainability sciences and practitioners in the area of policy/program evaluation and sustainable development
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Governance for sustainable development, evaluation and learning: An Introduction / Michal Sedlacko and André Martinuzzi -- Part I: Learning through evaluation -- 2. The politics of sustainability evaluation: Analysis of three austrian strategies for sustainable development / Michael Pregernig, Karl Hogl and Ralf Nordbeck -- 3. Tools for learning-oriented environmental appraisal / Måns Nilsson -- Part II: Institutionalising sd concerns in European policy making -- 4. Integrating sustainable development into impact assessment: How effective is the European commission? / Jennifer Franz and Colin Kirkpatrick -- 5. Monitoring the expected impacts of the 7th EU framework programme on sustainable development - a case study on governance by evaluation / André -- Martinuzzi -- 6. From a European court of auditors' report to a learning process? The challenge to integrate the environment into the european community's development assistance / Axel Johannes Olearius, Iola Leal Riesco and Sally Nicholson -- Part III: Dealing with multi-stakeholder contexts -- 7. Evaluation of public participation towards sustainable water management: An institutional perspective / Gül Özerol -- 8. Dynamic decision analysis for monitoring and facilitating the dutch costa due stakeholder dialogue on sustainable energy / Kirsten Hollaender and Frans Stokman -- 9. Participatory livelihoods system appraisal: A learning-oriented methodology for impact assessment / Martin Strele -- 10. Towards a process for eliciting criteria weights and enhancing capacity of stakeholders in ex ante evaluation of climate policies / Stelios Grafakos, Dimitrios Zevgolis and Vlasis Oikonomou -- Part IV: Developing learning capacity in organisations -- 11. Assessment of outcome mapping as a tool for evaluating and monitoring support to civil society organisations / Steve Powell, Joakim Molander and Ivona Čelebičić -- 12. Development of a learning-oriented monitoring system for sustainable agriculture chain development in eastern indonesia / Steff Deprez -- 13. Process monitoring of impacts and its application in structural fund programmes / Richard Hummelbrunner -- 14. Participatory ex ante evaluation of long-term infrastructure plans as a policy-learning process / Eckhard Störmer and Bernhard Truffer -- Part V: Reflecting evaluation tools: Perspectives and pitfalls -- 15. The role of visualisation within sustainability evaluation processes / Harald Wilfing and Ulrike Bechtold -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9781035305629
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 332 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Twenty-first century macroeconomics
    DDC: 338.927
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    Keywords: 1980-2006 ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Klimawandel ; Umweltschutz ; Welt ; Economic development Environmental aspects ; Macroeconomics ; Global warming ; Konferenzschrift ; Klimaänderung ; Umweltschutz ; Klimaschutz ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: The authors and editors of this book challenge traditional assumptions about economic growth, and develop the elements of a reoriented macroeconomics that takes account both of environmental impacts and social equity. Policies including carbon trading, revenue recycling, and reorientation of private and social investment are analyzed, providing insight into new paths for economic development with flat or negative carbon emissions. These issues will be crucial to macroeconomic and development policies in the twenty-first century. What are the likely economic effects of climate change? What are the costs of substantial action to avert climate change? What economic policies can be effective in responding to climate change? The debate has broad implications for public policy. However, it also raises fundamental questions about economic analysis itself, and moves issues of environmental policy from the microeconomic to the macroeconomic level. Taking global climate change seriously requires a re-examination of macroeconomic goals. Economic growth has been closely linked to expanded use of energy, primarily fossil fuels. The assumption of continuing economic growth, in turn, leads economists to discount future costs, including the generational impacts of climate change. Challenging conventional concepts of growth implies different development paths both for rich and poor nations. This volume brings together contributions from scholars around the world to address these issues. Scholars, researchers and students of economics and development studies along with policymakers and non-governmental organizations will find this insightful book of great interest
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction / Jonathan M. Harris and Neva R. Goodwin -- Part I: The scope of the challenge -- 1. Understanding the challenge of global warming / Lloyd J. Dumas -- 2. The new climate economics: The stern review versus its critics / Frank Ackerman -- 3. Economics and climate change: Resilience, equity, and sustainability / Neva R. Goodwin -- 4. The right to development in a climate-constrained world / Paul Baer, Tom Athanasiou and Sivan Kartha -- Part II: Macroeconomic theory perspectives -- 5. The economic fundamentals of global warming / Duncan K. Foley -- 6. Energy productivity, labor productivity, and global warming / Lance Taylor -- 7. Macroeconomics and sustainable development: Applying the sustainomics framework / Mohan Munasinghe -- 8. Ecological macroeconomics: Consumption, investment and climate change / Jonathan M. Harris -- Part III: Policy options for responding to climate change -- 9. Cap and dividend: How to curb global warming while promoting income equity / James K. Boyce and Matthew Riddle -- 10. Policies for funding a response to climate change / Brian Roach -- 11. The new EU emissions trading scheme: A blueprint for the global carbon market? / Christian Egenhofer -- 12. Implementation of sustainable development in Poland / Andrzej Kassenberg -- 13. Climate change from the investor's perspective / Adam Seitchik -- Index.
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781035305735
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 184 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: INFER advances in economic research
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    Keywords: 1980-2006 ; Globalisierung ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Wirtschaftsintegration ; Wirtschaftliche Konvergenz ; Industrieländer ; Entwicklungsländer ; International economic integration Congresses ; Globalization Congresses Economic aspects ; International economic integration ; Globalization Economic aspects ; Europe Congresses Economic integration ; Developing countries Congresses Economic integration ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: The main challenges the European Single Market is facing in the 21st century result from the enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe, the EMU, and the globalization of trade and investment that has aided the rise of competitive emerging markets. This state-of-the-art book provides fresh theoretical and empirical evidence on the challenges presented by integration and globalization for both developed and developing countries. The authors demonstrate how the European Single Market remains a work in progress with many critical issues still to be addressed. These include the rigidities in product and labor markets, the need for innovation and quality upgrading, and the rapid catch-up of new member countries. They go on to show how firms use the opportunities provided by integration and globalization to fragment their production processes internationally, which brings gains but also requires structural adjustment. The book also argues that global environmental coordination may be less detrimental to the growth prospects of developing countries than is commonly believed. Illustrating a number of methodologies, this book will be a great resource tool for postgraduates and undergraduates in the fields of international economics and business, as well as researchers and policy-makers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Overview -- 1. Integration and globalization: An overview / Helena Marques, Elias Soukiazis and Pedro Cerqueira -- Part II: European economies and integration -- 2. Challenges for the internal market in the 21st century / Fabienne Ilzkovitz, Adriaan Dierx, Viktoria Kovacs and Nuno Sousa -- 3. Testing nominal rigidities in an integrated economy: An application to Spain / Maria Ángeles Caraballo and Carlos Usabiaga -- 4. Innovation, competitiveness and growth: The case of central and eastern European countries / Eleonora Cavallaro and Marcella Mulino -- 5. Price convergence in the new EU member states: Selected aspects and implications / Václav Zd'árek -- Part III: Developing economies and globalization -- 6. Outsourcing: A story of metamorphosis / Soumodip Sarkar -- 7. International spillovers and learning by doing in a regionalized model of climate change: A post-kyoto analysis / Nicola Cantore -- 8. Assessing exchange rate pass-through in India during recent globalization / Sushanta Mallick and Helena Marques -- 9. A dynamic cge analysis of the eu-jordan fta: Welfare and policy implications / Omar Feraboli -- Index.
    Note: "The contributions in this volume result from the 6th Workshop in International Economics of the International Network for Economic Research (INFER), held at the University of Coimbra in June 2007."--Preface , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781781956410
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 176 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Frenken, Koen Innovation, evolution and complexity theory
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    Keywords: Innovation ; Systemtheorie ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Technological innovations ; System theory ; Technische Innovation ; Systemtheorie
    Abstract: The motivation behind this book is the desire to integrate complexity theory into economic models of technological evolution. By means of developing an evolutionary model of complex technological systems, the book contributes to the neo-Schumpetarian literature on innovation, diffusion and technological paradigms. Recent advances in complexity theory provide a new understanding of technological innovation and complex problem-solving. This book offers an approach based on Stuart Kauffman's NK-model of complex systems to better understand and analyse search strategies that firms apply to develop new technologies. The models deal with a range of topics including bounded rationality, myopia, decomposability, modularity and the emergence of technological paradigms. Empirical applications include the evolution of early 18th century steam engine technology, 20th century aircraft and helicopter designs and recent innovations in personal computers. Innovation, Evolution and Complexity Theory makes excellent use of complexity theory and large datasets on technologies with which to complement the analysis. The book will be of great interest to evolutionary and innovation economists and academics as well as scholars in the interdisciplinary field of complexity theory and industrial organisation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- Part I: Theoretical contributions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Technology landscapes -- 3. Generalised genotype-phenotype maps -- 4. A model of technological paradigms -- Part II: Empirical applications -- 5. Entropy statistics -- 6. Early evolution of steam engines -- 7. Trajectories in aircraft and helicopters -- 8. The advent of portable computers -- 9. Directions for future research -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-169) and index
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9781035305186
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 648 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Agricultural policy reform and the WTO
    DDC: 338.1/81
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    Keywords: World Trade Organization Congresses ; Agrarreform ; WTO-Recht ; Agraraußenhandel ; Außenwirtschaftspolitik ; Welt ; Agriculture and state Congresses ; Produce trade Congresses ; Agriculture and state Congresses ; Produce trade Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Übereinkommen zur Errichtung der Welthandelsorganisation 1994 April 15 ; World Trade Organization ; Agrarhandel ; Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations ; Agrarpolitik
    Abstract: Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO provides insights into the effects of the Uruguay Round WTO agreement on agricultural policy and global markets, and considers what is at stake in the Doha Development Agenda Round. The contributors to the book deal with a broad range of topics, including the evolution of domestic and trade policies in the last ten years across developed and developing countries and proposals made in the agricultural negotiation regarding market access, export subsidies and domestic support; new issues emergent in agricultural trade negotiations are also explored, including: * interaction between national regulatory systems and the deepening integration of the international trade regime * intellectual property rights protection * food safety * quality regulations * antidumping trade protection. Finally, the future of international trade relations is discussed, in particular the implications of enforcing domestic regulations to comply with international rules. This rich collection of research and analysis will be invaluable to researchers, academics and policymakers with an interest in agricultural policy analysis and international economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Agricultural policy reform: Past present and future -- Part I: Agriculture and agricultural policy changes ten years after the uruguay round -- Part II: The three pillars of the WTO negotiations on agriculture -- Part III: Agricultural trade relations, WTO negotiations on agriculture and the developing world -- Part IV: The WTO and the future of international trade relations -- Index.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035304851
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 241 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von From industrial districts to local development
    DDC: 338.945/5
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    Keywords: Industrieregion ; Kommunale Entwicklung ; Toskana ; Industrial districts ; Industrial policy ; Industrial organization ; Economic development ; Industrial districts Italy ; Tuscany ; Industrial policy Italy ; Industrial organization Italy ; Economic development ; Italien ; Toskana ; Industrie ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Industrieregion ; Regionalwirtschaft
    Abstract: From Industrial Districts to Local Development introduces a set of papers representing the main contribution of the 'Florence school' to the recent literature on industrial districts. The authors illustrate that the revitalisation of the concept of industrial districts, returning to Alfred Marshall's nineteenth-century writings, is rooted in an unconventional interpretation of the economic development of Tuscany after the Second World War. Models of industrial organisation and empirical investigation of industrial tendencies are featured, and Alfred Marshall's concepts of the advantages of the geographical agglomeration of specialised small firms in industrial districts are reintroduced. The authors extend the analysis of purely economic effects of agglomeration, including social, cultural and institutional foundations of local development, and current case studies are presented. This book will appeal to scholars, lecturers and researchers focusing on industrial economics, development economics and economic geography. Its references to Italian political experiences will also be of interest to policymakers in both developed and developing countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword / by Werner Sengenberger -- Introduction: An itinerary -- Part I: The development of tuscany: Industrial districts -- 1. Industrial districts in the development of tuscany -- 2. The 'tuscan model' and recent trends -- 3. The past in the present: Prato's people -- Part II: Inside the district: Clues for theoreticians -- 4. The governance of transactions in the industrial district: The 'commodity market' -- 5. The incentives to decentralised creativity in local systems of small firms -- 6. Trust, interlinking transactions and credit in the industrial district -- 7. On entrepreneurship, region and the constitution of scale and scope economies -- Part III: Towards local development -- 8. Local development in the experience of Italian industrial districts -- 9. Local governance and industrial districts' competitive advantage -- 10. The multiple paths of local development -- 11. Towards a geographical redefinition of the form of the state -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304905
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 260 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The Internet and mobile telecommunications system of innovation
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    Keywords: Internet ; Mobilkommunikation ; Funktechnik ; Innovation ; Welt ; Wireless Internet ; Wireless communication systems ; Wireless Internet ; Wireless communication systems ; Mobile Telekommunikation ; Technische Innovation
    Abstract: This book examines the 'new' areas of telecommunications technology, focusing particularly on fixed data communications (including the internet) and mobile telecommunications (including the mobile internet). A sectoral systems of innovation approach is used as a conceptual framework for the analysis of the telecommunications sector, in terms of equipment, access and content. The authors consider the emergence and expansion of new technologies and explore how the sectoral system of innovation is evolving and how previously independent systems are now converging. In particular, they address the question of equipment production and the provision of intangible service products such as internet access and content. By addressing the production of both goods and services, they highlight the critical interdependence of service innovations and manufacturing innovations. Some of the specific topics discussed within the book include: * the challenges for Europe of fixed data communications * second and third generation mobile telecommunications systems * data communication via satellite and television subsystems * the dynamics and trends of the internet services industry * policy implications for the future of the telecommunications sectoral system of innovation. The book is a comprehensive theoretical, empirical and policy oriented account of the emergence and evolution of the sectoral system of innovation of the internet and mobile telecommunications. It will be an invaluable source of reference for academic researchers and policymakers in the fields of macroeconomics, industrial economics and innovation, as well as consultants and firms operating in the communications industry
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface 1. The fixed internet and mobile telecommunications sectoral system of innovation: Equipment, access and content -- 2. Fixed data communications: Challenges for Europe -- 3. The global system for mobile telecommunications (GSM): Second generation -- 4. The universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS): Third generation -- 5. Data communication: Satellite and tv subsystems -- 6. The internet services industry: Sectoral dynamics of innovation and production -- 7. The internet services industry: Country-specific trends in the UK, Italy and Sweden -- 8. Policy implications for the future of the sectoral system -- Abbreviations -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782543701
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 318 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Studies of small and medium size enterprises in East Asia series v. 1
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Globalisation and SMEs in East Asia
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    Keywords: KMU ; Globalisierung ; Ostasien ; Asiatisch-pazifischer Raum ; Finanzkrise ; Small business Congresses ; Globalization Congresses Economic aspects ; Financial crises Congresses ; Small business Congresses Finance ; Unternehmenskultur ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Globalisierung ; Regionalentwicklung ; Regionalplanung ; Wirtschaftskrise ; Währungspolitik ; Direktinvestition ; Technologietransfer ; Informationstechnik ; Kommunikationstechnik ; Electronic Commerce ; Beschäftigung ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Asien ; Konferenzschrift ; Ostasien ; Internationalisierung ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb
    Abstract: The 1997 financial and economic crisis in East Asia provided the catalyst for an important reappraisal of the Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) sector across the region. In this timely book, a distinguished group of contributors discusses the role of SMEs in the globalisation of the East Asian economies, and assess how the financial crisis has impacted on them. They focus on a number of key aspects of SMEs in the region, including: * financing issues * the role of entrepreneurship * the diffusion of technology in the region * Chinese small businesses * SME requirements for information technology * the opportunities afforded by electronic commerce * regional labour markets and their impact on SMEs. Globalisation and SMEs in East Asia will appeal to academics and researchers of Asian economies and studies, globalisation and those interested in industrial organisation
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. The Study of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in East Asia / Charles Harvie and Boon-Chye Lee -- 2. The Asian Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Regional SMEs / Charles Harvie -- 3. SMEs in the Globalised Developing Economies: Some Asia-Pacific Examples / Henry Wan, Jr. -- 4. SMEs in Southeast Asia: Issues and Constraints in the Pre- and Post-Crisis Environments / Henry Sandee -- 5. Trade Finance for East Asian SMEs and the Asian Financial Crisis / Donald G. Ross -- 6. Financing Issues: SME IPOs in China and Australia / Gurmeet S. Bhabra, John G. Powell, Jing Shi and Tian Ze -- 7. Small and Medium Enterprises: Evaluating Foreign Direct Investments in the Presence of Political Risk / Boon-Chye Lee and John G. Powell -- 8. The Role of SMEs in the Diffusion of Technology among East Asian Economies / Tim Turpin -- 9. Requirements for SME Information Technology / Craig Van Slyke, Christopher Conca and Kenneth Trimmer -- 10. Electronic Commerce and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in East Asia / Boon-Chye Lee -- 11. SMEs and Regional Labour Markets: Major Trends Since 1997 / Peter van Diermen -- 12. From Miracle to Crisis and Beyond: The Role of Entrepreneurship and SMEs in Asia / Hock-Beng Cheah -- 13. Small Chinese Businesses after the Asian Crisis: Surviving and Reviving / Constance Lever-Tracy and David Ip -- 14. Connections, Culture and Context: Business Relationships and Networks in the Asia-Pacific Region / Liz Fulop and David Richards -- 15. Franchising: An Interdependent Alternative to Independent SMEs / Leo Paul Dana, Hamid Etemad and Richard W Wright.
    Note: Papers presented at an international conference, organized by the International Business Research Institute of the University of Wollongong, Australia, held in Wollongong on June 16-17, 2000 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781782542308
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 340 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The globalization of industry and innovation in Eastern Europe
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    Keywords: Industrie ; Innovation ; Wirtschaftliche Anpassung ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Osteuropa ; Industrial policy ; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) ; Europe, Eastern Economic policy 1989- ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Osteuropa ; Industrie ; Innovation ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Anpassung
    Abstract: In this important book, industrial and enterprise reform over the last decade in Eastern Europe is critically reviewed in light of increasing Eastern integration into the global economy. The authors argue for the further globalization of Eastern European enterprise networks as a condition for recovery and growth in the region. Empirical evidence is provided from five industrial sectors (car industry, telecommunication, shipbuilding, computers, software), including case studies and international comparisons
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Conceptual framework -- 2. An evolutionary view of post-socialist restructuring -- 3. Enterprise reform and competition analysis in the post-socialist context -- Part II: Empirical analysis and case studies -- 4. The reemergence of the automotive industry in eastern Europe -- 5. Local, regional and global production networks -- 6. Eastern European shipbuilding's cruise towards world markets -- 7. Food processing in western and eastern Europe -- 8. Restructuring -- Of the telecommunications sector in the west and the east and the role of science and technology -- 9. Software -- 10. The eastern European computer industry -- 11. Restructuring the computer and software industries in Poland -- Part III: Summary and outlook -- 12. Main findings and perspectives for innovation policies in eastern Europe and the west -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782541479
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 193 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Dluhosch, Barbara Industrial location and economic integration
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    Keywords: Produktionsstandort ; Räumliche Verteilung ; Regionales Cluster ; Wirtschaftsintegration ; Globalisierung ; EU-Staaten ; Industrial location ; International economic relations ; European Union countries Economic conditions ; Regional disparities ; Europe Economic integration ; European Union countries Foreign economic relations ; Europäische Union ; Außenwirtschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Standortfaktor
    Abstract: In recent decades the world economy has been characterized by deepening and widening integration. Throughout this time, there have been concerns that this process may foster the geographical concentration of industries, a view substantiated by contributions to the new economic geography. In this book, Barbara Dluhosch opposes this position and presents an entirely different view of the consequences of globalization. Barbara Dluhosch carefully identifies and analyses the main pillars of the new economic geography. She then presents an essentially new approach focusing on the decline of communication costs, and introduces cost competition and technological choice, which have largely been neglected. In doing so, she arrives at fundamentally different conclusions and provides new insights into the consequences of regional integration and the process of globalization. Finally, the policy implications of this are critically evaluated by drawing on experiences of European economic integration
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Integration and economic development: Is history destiny? -- 2. Stylised facts on eu-wide geographical disparities -- 3. Centripetal forces dominating: The home market effect -- 4. Centrifugal forces dominating: The foreign market effect -- 5. EU cohesion: A matter of income distribution? -- 6. Reprise: History is not destiny -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782543572
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 288 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Smith, Heather, 1965 - Industry policy in Taiwan and Korea in the 1980s
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    Keywords: 1962-1996 ; Industriepolitik ; Industrialisierung ; Industrieforschung ; Fertigungsberufe ; Staatliche Einflussnahme ; Außenhandel mit Industriegütern ; Exportdiversifizierung ; Japan ; Industrial policy ; Industrial policy ; Taiwan ; Industriepolitik ; Geschichte 1980-1990 ; Südkorea
    Abstract: The growth in global competitiveness and interdependence has led to an increased interest in the role of industrial policy in achieving economic growth objectives. Heather Smith reignites the contentious debate of the role of the state using East Asian economic development in general with particular emphasis on Taiwan and Korea. Using quantitive techniques, the author analyses the view that industry policy interventions were a necessary factor explaining Taiwan's economic performance in the 1980s. Lessons for other countries attempting to upgrade their industrial structure are drawn from the comparative industrialisation experience of Taiwan and Korea, along with: * a comprehensive discussion of strategic industry policy with an application to East Asia. * discussion on the impact of the 1997-1998 financial crisis in Korea * a critique of the structuralist/revisionist literature in the light of the financial crisis. This highly topical study constitutes essential reading for governmental and non-governmental policymakers, business leaders and academics alike
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction: Winning with the market or governing the market? -- 1. The role of government in the industrialisation of Taiwan and Korea -- 2. Taiwan's industry policy in the 1980s -- 3. Korea's industry policy legacy -- 4. Picking winners or sustaining losers? -- 5. Did industrial policy really contribute to industrial upgrading? -- 6. Determinants of industrial competitiveness -- 7. Did industry policy interventions result in sustained productivity and export growth? -- 8. Revision of the revisionists: The 1997-8 Asian crisis -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035303595
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 262 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Payson, Steven, 1957 - Economics, science and technology
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Wissenschaft ; Naturwissenschaft ; Forschung ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Theorie ; Economics ; Science and industry ; Technological innovations ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften ; Innovationsforschung
    Abstract: Economists need to understand some fundamental aspects of science in order to measure and analyse the process of technological change. This book explores the interrelationships between economics, science and technology in order to find ways of improving economists' approaches to technical change. Dr Payson begins by offering a scientific critique of economic discourse and presents a unique, unconstrained and critical view of the behavioral differences between economists and scientists. The economic literature on technological change is analysed in order to assess economists' approach to science. The author then offers concrete solutions for the useful economic study of technological change including alternative methods of classifying data based on scientific principles, a characteristics approach to measuring physical capital, and a futuristic exploration into how artificial intelligence may improve economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: A scientific critique of economic discourse -- 1. Economics of science versus science of economics -- 2. The difference in behavior between economists and scientists -- 3. Measurement in economics must be taken more seriously -- Part II: Economic literature on scientific advancement, technological change and related topics -- 4. Science as a public good -- 5. Subfields on the economic effects of scientific research -- 6. Economic literature on technological change -- Part III: New attitudes, philosophies, frameworks and models -- 7. Product evolution and the case for function-based classification -- 8. Business interests in scientific discoveries -- 9. Capital input - it need not be metaphysical -- 10. Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035303885
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 202 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Industrial competitiveness in East-Central Europe
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    Keywords: Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Organisatorischer Wandel ; Strukturwandel ; Ostmitteleuropa ; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) ; Industrial policy ; Industries ; Competition, International ; Post-communism ; Manufacturing industries Europe, Central ; Europe, Central Economic conditions ; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Europe, Eastern ; Industrial policy Europe, Eastern ; Industries Europe, Eastern ; Competition, International ; Konferenzschrift 1997 ; Osteuropa ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Industrie ; Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
    Abstract: Will the manufacturing industry in east-central Europe survive when the host countries join the European Union? This controversial book challenges the assumption, made by the European Commission, that industries in transitional economies should have little difficulty establishing and maintaining a competitive position after entry into the European Union. The analysis focuses on Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the former east Germany. Issues discussed include: * changes in economic structures, the transformation of enterprises and financial restructuring * levels of competitiveness in the countries, the region and internationally * industrial policy in the region * levels and nature of investment * limits and sources of growth * integration into western Europe * dangers of over-hasty harmonization of macroeconomic conditions with the European Union The authors conclude that although the basic structures of a market economy are firmly established, the transition has not encouraged the development of more advanced industrial activities. They strongly suggest that there should be an active policy framework, based on international experience, specifically geared towards improving the international competitiveness of industry in east-central Europe
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. The tigers of tomorrow? Structural change and economic growth in east-central Europe -- 2. Competitiveness in east-central Europe -- 3. The macroeconomics of structural transformation -- 4. Financing enterprise restructuring -- 5. Investment and restructuring -- 6. Towards a competitiveness policy in Slovakia -- 7. The transformation of czech enterprises -- 8. Innovation and the east German transformation -- 9. Are the transformations complete?.
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    ISBN: 9781781956243
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 258 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Maneschi, Andrea, 1936 - Comparative advantage in international trade
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    Keywords: Außenwirtschaftstheorie ; Komparativer Vorteil ; Theorie ; Comparative advantage (International trade) Econometric models ; International trade Econometric models ; Comparative advantage (International trade) ; Reale Außenwirtschaftstheorie ; Komparative Kosten ; Geschichte ; Komparative Kosten ; Reale Außenwirtschaftstheorie ; Ökonometrisches Modell ; Reale Außenwirtschaftstheorie ; Komparative Kosten
    Abstract: The book analyzes the evolution of the concept of comparative advantage from the eighteenth century to the present day. It examines the origins of the concept of comparative advantage, its current status within economic thought and its validity in today's global economy. This comprehensive book outlines the theories of trade and the interpretations of comparative advantage associated with, among others, the Mercantilists, Smith, Ricardo, Torrens, Longfield, Mill, Marshall, Pareto, Haberler, Heckscher, Ohlin and Samuelson, as well as present day trade theorists. A chapter is devoted to Hamilton, Rae and List, who interpreted comparative advantage dynamically by advocating its creation. The book breaks new ground by reinterpreting the theories of trade associated with prominent economists such as Ricardo, and drawing attention to valuable but lesser known contributions. It considers the new trade theory from the past two decades as a legitimate successor to the dynamic views of comparative advantage of the classical economists. This book will be required reading for students and academics with an interest in the history of economic thought and the economics (or theory) of international trade
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The concept of comparative advantage -- 3. Theories of international trade up to adam smith -- 4. David ricardo, robert torrens and the discovery of comparative advantage -- 5. Creators of comparative advantage: Alexander hamilton, john rae and friedrich list -- 6. John stuart mill: Comparative advantage and the terms of trade -- 7. Neoclassical trade theory: Alfred marshall, vilfredo pareto and enrico barone -- 8. Neoclassical trade theory: Gottfried haberler, eli heckscher and bertil ohlin -- 9. The heckscher-ohlin theory encounters the new trade theory -- 10. The (almost) general validity of comparative advantage -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035303236
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 385 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Enterprise and the welfare state
    DDC: 331.25/2/0973
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    Keywords: Altersvorsorge ; Rentenreform ; Betriebliche Altersversorgung ; Gesetzliche Rentenversicherung ; Sozialstaat ; Österreich ; Frankreich ; Deutschland ; Italien ; Old age pensions Cross-cultural studies ; Pension trusts Cross-cultural studies ; Retirement income Cross-cultural studies ; Welfare economics Cross-cultural studies ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Altersversorgung ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Altersruhegeld
    Abstract: The economic demands of an ageing population, coupled with the crisis of public spending pose one of the greatest challenges to social policy in both the East and West. This book focuses on the political economy of pensions, particularly on the interaction between private and state provision. Enterprise and the Welfare State argues that there is more to welfare than simply provision by the state and so the focus of this book is on the welfare society rather than the welfare state. This requires a new system of statistical accounting and a different focus for case studies. A multidisciplinary approach is used to examine the design of the pensions system in nine countries with different institutional welfare mixes. Using a common conceptual framework, it compares and contrasts the goals and realities of the welfare systems in France, Germany, The Netherlands and Sweden, where strong occupational pensions are in operation, with the more modest welfare states in Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Each country case study provides a grounded analysis of the evolution of pension design and traces the impact of the policies on the economic well-being of the aged and the performance of the economy. It offers new data on the level of spending of enterprise based occupational pensions and examines the implications for redistribution resulting from changes in the design of state and occupational pensions. This book will be essential reading for academics, students and public policymakers interested in the economics of welfare, social policy and the future of pension provision
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. The emerging role of enterprise in social policy / (M. Rein and E. Wadensjö) -- 2. The austrian pension system / (P. Rosner, T. Url and A. Wörgötter) -- 3. France: A national and contractual second tier / (E. Reynaud) -- 4. The public-private mix in pension provision in Germany: The role of employer-based pension arrangements and the influence of public activities / (W. Schmähl) -- 5. The retirement provision mix in Italy: The dominant role of the public system / (R. Di Biase, A. Gandiglio, M. Cozzolino and G. Proto) -- 6. The role of the Japanese company in compensating income loss after retirement / (Y. Kimura) -- 7. The Netherlands: Growing importance of private sector arrangements / (M. Blomsa and R. Jansweijer) -- 8. The welfare mix in pension provisions in Sweden / (E. Wadensjö) -- 9. The British case / (T. Lynes) -- 10. Enterprise and the state: Interactions in the provision of employees' retirement income in the United States / (L. apRoberts and J. Turner) -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782541592
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 254 pages) , illustrations
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    Keywords: Umweltökonomik ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Lange Wellen ; Umweltökonomische Gesamtrechnung ; Theorie ; Welt ; Sustainable development ; Environmental economics ; Technology Economic aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Umweltökonomie ; Neue Technologie
    Abstract: At the end of the 20th century economists and policymakers face an unprecedented dual challenge: to avert ecological disaster and to end mass unemployment by accelerating and redirecting world economic growth. This major volume brings together contributions from environmental and technological economists. The first part discusses the ecological challenge to economists and policymakers and shows that both need a radical change in their approach. The second part discusses the institutional and legal changes which are necessary to address this challenge. The final part deals with the technological revolution, focusing on microelectronics and biotechnology, which is now transforming the world economy, and sets it in the context of long term fluctuations in economic growth and the relative stagnation since 1973. The protection of the environment, and economic growth with full employment are not necessarily opposed. On the contrary, as this volume demonstrates, what is required to return to full employment and more rapid growth is vigorous and concerted government action to give an 'eco-friendly' direction to technological and economic change
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction: Ecology, technology and institutions / (A. Tylecote and J. van der Straaten) -- Part I: the ecological agenda for sustainable development -- Part II: the institutional agenda for sustainable development -- Part III: ecology, technology and long fluctuations in economic growth -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035303632
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 204 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Europe competing in the global economy
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; EU-Staaten ; Competition, International ; Labor market ; International trade ; Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Globalisierung ; Binnenmarkt ; Unternehmenspolitik ; Infrastrukturpolitik ; Öffentliches Unternehmen ; Unternehmensgröße ; Umweltpolitik ; Beschäftigungspolitik ; European Union countries Economic policy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Union ; Internationale Wirtschaftspolitik ; Wettbewerbspolitik
    Abstract: This authoritative book, bringing together the reports of the Competitiveness Advisory Group, identifies actions to improve European competitiveness politically, economically and socially. The objective is to raise living standards and maintain social cohesion. The Competitiveness Advisory Group has the mission of advising the European Commission and the Heads of State and Government of the European Union. The members of this independent group, which includes leading industrialists, trade unionists, politicians and academics, have adopted a 'bottom-up' approach, seeking to draw lessons from the experience of countries, industries and firms: they rely on 'benchmarking' in order to identify best practice. In the context of increasing interdependence of world trade and consequent globalization of the international economy new policy prescriptions are required for growth and employment, greater efficiency and higher standards of living. In relation to this, the Group discusses the need to close the worldwide technology gap, for Europe to develop deeper relations with the fast growing Asia Pacific region and argues for greater European solidarity in international trade negotiations. Within the European Union itself, it emphasizes the need to achieve the internal market for the free flow of goods, services and people. In addition, it stresses that Europe needs to catch-up, construct and eventually lead the development of the information society in which workers are recognized as a major asset to be invested in. The Group concludes that, although unemployment remains high, European competitiveness now has a brighter future with the movement towards economic and monetary union, and the enlargement of the European Union eastwards. This book will be essential reading for policymakers, government advisers, industrialists and academics concerned with the future of European economies and societies
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: What competitiveness for Europe? An Introduction / (A. Jacquemin and Lucio Pench) -- Enhancing European competitiveness four reports / (Competitiveness Advisory Group) -- First report -- 1. Competitiveness and the European economy -- 2. Completing the internal market -- 3. Strengthening the European enterprise -- 4. Reaping human resources -- Second report -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The role of the state in the provision and regulation of basic infrastructures -- 3. Small and medium-sized enterprises (smes), innovation and research and development -- 4. The company and environmental policy -- 5. The meaning of the learning society -- Third report -- 1. Summary and conclusions -- 2. Labour market, unemployment and competitiveness -- 3. Labour market reform -- 4. The company and employment -- Fourth report -- 1. Europe's place in a globalizing world economy -- 2. Benchmarks for Europe: The dynamism of Asia -- 3. High-level standards, high-level benchmarks -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781959657
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 203 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Knot, Klaas H. W., 1967 - Fiscal policy and interest rates in the European Union
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    Keywords: Finanzpolitik ; Öffentliche Schulden ; Schuldenmanagement ; EU-Staaten ; Fiscal policy ; Budget deficits ; Interest rates ; Europäische Union ; Fiskalpolitik ; Europäische Union ; Fiskalpolitik ; Haushaltsdefizit ; Zinsänderung
    Abstract: Fiscal Policy and Interest Rates in the European Union is a comprehensive study concerned with the potential effects of fiscal policy on financial markets in the European Union. It takes into account the gradual liberalization of capital movements throughout Western Europe and the institutional framework of the European monetary system. Klaas Knot takes a fresh approach to the impact of budget deficits on interest rates, especially in relation to international financial integration, and concludes that the increases in European budget deficits since the early 1970s have raised interest rates in the long term throughout the Union. In conclusion he argues that balanced budget deficits are necessary to maintain low interest rates. This important new book will be of interest to students, academics and policymakers concerned with monetary and public economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction and outline -- 2. Fiscal policy: Theory, determinants and measurement -- 3. European capital markets: Deficit and interest rates -- 4. Deficit announcements and interest rates in Germany -- 5. Interest rate differentials and exchange rate policies in the European monetary system -- 6. Fundamental determinants of interest rate differentials in the ems -- 7. Summary and conclusion -- Bibliography -- Indexes.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and indexes
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