Welfare economics

The book provides fresh look at the issues of sustainable development, degradation of natural resources and vulnerability to climate change in Small Island developing states (SIDS).

Over the last few decades universities in Australia and overseas have been criticized for not meeting the needs and expectations of the societies in which they operate.

The book presents academic research on urbanization, urban poverty and slum development initiatives in South Asia, in general, and Bangladesh, in particular, in the light of global slum upgrading initiatives.

This book provides new evidence of the theoretical and empirical causes and consequences of child labor.

The book discusses important developments emerging around the land questions in India in the context of India's neoliberal economic development and its changing political economy.

The book aims to explore South Asian third sector - the nonprofit organizations as provider of social services.

How can we be happier, healthier and more satisfied in life?

This book explores inclusive development in the Indian context, not only within each of the country's major economic and social sectors, but also across countries in the particular context of globalization.

This book analyses the processes through which the modern forms of large fortunes are amassed.

The book compares neoclassical and Marxian economics and points out that both the schools of thought seek to analyze how a capitalist society functions.

This book primarily focuses on the domain conditions under which a number of important classes of binary social decision rules give rise to rational social preferences.

The book discusses the socio-cultural-historical, occupational, educational, employment and discriminatory status of one of the most neglected and marginalised communities: the de-notified tribes or ex-criminal tribes of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

As digitalization and social media are increasingly blurring the boundaries between traditional societal, political, and economic institutions, this book provides a cross-disciplinary examination of value co-creation.

This book discusses critical policy issues that need to be addressed if India wishes to achieve the SDG 1 based elusive goal of ending poverty in the country.

This book examines the effectiveness of trade and non-trade policies to combat the menace of child labour.

This book critically discusses the changing relationship between the Indian state and capital by examining the mediating role of society in influencing developmental outcomes.

The distinctive contribution of this book is the formulation of an integrated social, environmental, and economic framework for public policy.

This book honors the memory of Tony Atkinson, who made significant contributions to the rigorous study of income inequality, poverty, and redistribution.

This book develops an understanding of workplace justice and labour rights in Vietnam from factory workers' voices and their resistance against abuse and exploitation.

Recent applications of evolutionary game theory in the merging fields of the mathematical and social sciences are brilliantly portrayed in this book, which highlights social physics and shows how the approach can help to quantitatively model complex human-environmental-social systems.

This collection of essays covers a diverse set of topics related to household behavior and welfare.

This book focuses on the 'functionings' and capabilities generated from land by their owners and the challenge in satisfactorily recreating these through the compensation paid in the case of compulsory acquisition of private land.

This book uses simple economic theories to explain how China's agricultural economic phenomena exists in reality.

This book provides comprehensive analysis and descriptions of China's ageing finance system .

This book discusses critical policy issues that need to be addressed if India wishes to achieve the SDG 1 based elusive goal of ending poverty in the country.

The book examines the pattern of non-farm development at the national level and identifies the correlates and determinants of occupational diversification for the major states.

This volume examines important topical issues in normative trade theory and welfare economics.

This book reviews the development of China's social security system from 1949 onwards and analyzes its features in each stage.

This cutting edge collection examines Japan's population issue, exploring how declining demographic trends are affecting Japan's social structure, specifically in the context of Greater Tokyo, life infrastructure, public finance and the economy.

This study examines and explains the relationship between social health insurance (SHI) participation and out-of-pocket expenditures (OOP) as well as the mediating role the institutional arrangement of SHI plays in this relationship in China.

Shaili touches upon the most relevant issues of our times which most often are closed door conversations in a highly readable, heroic and engaging way.

Aquesta guia, elaborada per un equip de treball del Departament de Direcció d'Empreses de la Universitat de València, és un instrument al servei de l'Administració Pública Valenciana i de la ciutadania en general, que té com a propòsit oferir informació detallada de l'oferta que existeix a la Comunitat Valenciana sobre finances ètiques, cooperatives i locals: quantitat d'entitats financeres ètiques i socials i d'institucions públiques i privades de suport, així com les activitats que desenvolupen i els productes i serveis que ofereixen.

Las Jornadas "Bienestar, Formación y Territorio" edición 2016 que se recogen en este volumen son el resultado de una ilusionante iniciativa compartida con el Vicerrectorado de Participación y Proyección Territorial de la Universitat de València y la Diputación de València.

Tras el éxito de sus dos magníficos libros anteriores, Rousseau no usa bitcoins y Por fin me comprendo, Alfredo Sanfeliz, el "Harari español", vuelve a sacudirnos con un gran ensayo sociológico acerca de las paradojas y absurdas creencias que se dan en torno al funcionamiento de nuestra sociedad, poco visibles pero que de hecho condicionan nuestro desarrollo, convivencia y bienestar.

This book explores public budgeting in India.

Der ironische, amüsante Kurzroman berichtet von der internationalen Projekterfahrung, welche Caesar in einem Konzern (Brötz Product Group) gesammelt hat.

This book conceptualizes and clarifies the meaning of sustainable performance, approaching it holistically from different perspectives.

Impact Investing – wirkungsorientiertes Investieren – steckt in Deutschland im Vergleich zu anderen Ländern noch in den Kinderschuhen.

"Klimaschutz ist eine Menschheitsaufgabe, und uns fällt nichts anderes ein als Marktlösungen.

This book comprehensively explores the intricate relationship between banking reforms, economic well-being, and poverty reduction across the African continent.

Das Buch bietet zu den theoretischen Grundlagen des Controllings Einblicke in die Praxis der deutschen und österreichischen Sozialwirtschaft.

Dieser Band beschreibt die Entwicklung der modernen Konsumgesellschaft von ihren Anfängen in den vorindustriellen Gesellschaften des 17.

Das Lehrbuch führt von der Geschäftsidee über die Unternehmenskonzeption bis zum Businessplan in die essenziellen Begriffe und Gegenstände sozialwirtschaftlicher Existenzgründung ein.