Welfare economics

An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequalityParents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well.

This book demonstrates that political exchange and coalition building have become the key ingredients for continental European pension reform.

This book re-examines early twentieth-century British welfare economics in the context of the emergence of the welfare state.

This book demonstrates that political exchange and coalition building have become the key ingredients for continental European pension reform.

This book examines and evaluates two approaches to social justice, the capabilities approach and the primary goods approach.

Understanding the complex dimensions of global poverty is crucial for tackling its diverse challenges.

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities: An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases, and Solutions, Eleventh Edition presents the most current and comprehensive M&A information available.

This book reviews the lessons from the Swedish 1991 tax reform, the most far-reaching tax reform in any Western industrialized country in the post-war period.

This book provides compelling arguments for the exclusive concern with efficiency ('a dollar is a dollar') in all specific areas of public economic policy, leaving the objective of equality to be achieved through the general tax/transfer system.

What are the poverty reduction goals of the European development cooperation agencies?

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities: An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases, and Solutions, Eleventh Edition presents the most current and comprehensive M&A information available.

Sustainability is an increasingly urgent and important factor in logistics and supply chain management, impacting the whole supply chain lifecycle from product design and development, to supplier management, packaging, transportation, warehousing and distribution.

With considerable turmoil in international trade and logistics it is more important than ever to understand trade and customs issues and their impact on logistics operations.

Procurement can be your company's secret weapon for winning in turbulent times.

Your Hands-On Guide to SAP Business Information WarehouseGive your company the competitive edge by delivering up-to-date, pertinent business reports to users inside and outside your enterprise.

Fully grasp the core principles of logistics, distribution management and the supply chain, in addition to emerging trends and the latest technologies, with this definitive guide that offers clear and straightforward explanations.

Category Management in Purchasing is a comprehensive guide to strategic category management which provides a step-by-step guide to its implementation and use, and enables readers to deliver value and cost savings when sourcing and purchasing.

From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive-and why it doesn't have to beUwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond.

The seventy years since the end of the Second World War have seen dramatic changes in Britain's cultural, intellectual and political climate.

Originally published in 1993, An Agenda for Britain offers a radical vision for the future of Britain and the Labour Party.

Although a range of program and policy responses to youth gangs exist, most are largely based on suppression, implemented by the police or other criminal justice agencies.

Social Work and Human Rights has become a standard text highlighting the role of social work in protecting the rights of vulnerable populations.

In recent decades there has been a shift in focus from psychological and social problems-what might be called the "e;dark side"e; of humanity-to human well-being and flourishing.

A hard-hitting expose of the overwork culture and modern management techniques that seduce millions of people to hand over the best part of their lives to their employer.

We are bombarded with images of poverty, terrorism, war and collapsing states.

From the international bestselling author of The Post-American World 'An intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making' The New York TimesSince the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times.

What are the effects of decreasing social mobility?

This book provides insights into how human well-being could be better defined and empirically assessed.

Major theoretical approaches stress the superiority of privately-owned over state-owned companies without addressing how corporate performance should best be measured.

Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) are a massive subset of the healthcare industry that negotiate lower costs for healthcare supplies by buying for several hospitals at once.

This book is about the harnessing of social capital, formalized as village or community organizations, to guide and facilitate collective action for attaining poverty alleviation in particular and enhancing community well-being in general.

Social Policy has been a key dimension of dynamic economic growth in East Asia's 'little tigers' and is also a prominent strand of their responses to the financial crisis of the late 1990s.

There are now increasing concerns about the need to upgrade public infrastructure, improve the delivery of public services, and explore new options for partnering with the private sector.

With representatives from different disciplines stressing the central importance of freedom in analyzing poverty and emphasizing some important policy issues, this book offers a view of poverty that will orient research in directions previously neglected, and help those in charge of implementing poverty reduction policies.

This book examines the aging of the US population as a primary domestic public policy issue.

This book considers aspects of transformation of former state socialist countries: social and economic outcomes; forces in the transformation process; problems of consolidation of the new regimes;and other scenarios.

This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment.

This book examines the efficiency and effectiveness of economic policies in Europe, and explores the implications for social equity.

Asset-based policies are becoming an increasingly important form of social policy globally.

This book demonstrates that, when reforming the water sector, policymakers should arrange social policies that mitigate the negative impact of reforms.

Foreign finance for private sector development (PSD) has become popular with the donor community and in multilateral development policy fora, seen as an antidote for recipient economies' aid dependency and a way of accomplishing growth, poverty reduction and empowerment.

The HIV/AIDS pandemic striking South Africa is of historic proportions.

This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement.

This volume presents a thought provoking analysis of key welfare state issues engaging policy makers across the globe.

This book is an extensive review of the current state of illegal immigration in Europe and North America whilst providing theoretical analysis.

One of the biggest challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region in the 21st century is the large scale cross-border movement of people.

Consumption, Jobs and the Environment argues that the present pattern of development, based on everlasting economic growth, is completely unsatisfactory from a welfare point of view.

This book presents a theoretically-based comprehensive analysis of macroeconomic consequences of fiscal policy using a popular economic model: the overlapping generations growth model.