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Economics without borders : economic research for European policy challenges
If treated as a single economy, the European Union is the largest in the world, with an estimated GDP of over 14 trillion euros. Despite its size, European economic policy has often lagged behind the rest of the world in its ability to generate growth and innovation. Much of the European economic research itself often trails behind that of the USA, which sets much of the agenda in mainstream ec…
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- 9781316636398
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- xxvi, 666 p. ; ill
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- 330.94 BLU e
Access to medicines and vaccines : implementing flexibilities under intellect…
This open access book is the outcome of a Global Forum on Innovation, Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines held in December 2019 at the Max Plank Instititute in Munich, organised by the South Centre and the Max Plank Institute. The academics and experts from international organisations participating have contributed chapters to this book. The book is for policy makers (in Ministries of…
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- 9783030831141
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- x, 369 p. : ill.
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- 346.0486 COR a
Gallucci's commentary on dürer's 'four books on human proportion': renaissan…
In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer’s Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer’s treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci’s Italian translation that endured in popularity as the most cited version of the text in later Baroque treatises, cov…
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- 9781783748617
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- xi. ; 205 p.
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- 704.942 JAM g
Living for the city : social change and knowledge production in the Central A…
Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing w…
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- 9781108973120
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- xiii, 380 p. : ill
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- 967 LAR l
Social movements and solidarity structures in crisis-ridden Greece
Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece explores the rich grassroots experience of social movements in Greece between 2008 and 2016. The harsh conditions of austerity triggered the rise of vibrant mobilizations that went hand-in-hand with the emergence of numerous solidarity structures, providing unofficial welfare services to the suffering population. Based on qualit…
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- 9789048551460
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- 360 p . : ill.
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- 303.484 MAL s
The politics of inclusive development : interrogating the evidence
It is now widely accepted that politics plays a significant role in shaping the possibilities for inclusive development. However, the specific ways in which this happens across different types and forms of development, and in different contexts, remains poorly understood. This collection provides the state of the art review regarding what is currently known about the politics of inclusive devel…
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- 9780198788829
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- xx, 396 p. : ill.
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- 338.9 BUK t
The Great Reset: 2021 European Public Investment Outlook
This timely and insightful collection of essays written by economists from a range of academic and policy institutes explores the subject of public investment through two avenues. The first examines public investment trends and needs in Europe, addressing the initiatives taken by European governments to tackle the COVID-19 recession and to rebuild their economies. The second identifies key doma…
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- 9781800643529
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- xxvii, 222 p. : ill. ; 17.8 cm.
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- 332.64 CER t
Inequality in the developing world
Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty. For these reasons, it underpins intense public and academic debates and has become a dominant policy concern within many countries and in all mult…
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- 9780198863960
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- xx, 352 p. : ill.
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- 330.91724 TAR i
Globalisation and its economic consequences : looking at APEC economies
Given the rising criticisms of and growing doubts about globalisation, this timely edited volume looks at globalisation and its economic impact on eight countries in Asia and the Pacific region, namely Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, the United States (US), and Vietnam. The eight selected countries are members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and yet…
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- 9781003138501
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- xv, 247 p. : ill.
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- 306.091823 URA g
Pandemics: Insurance and Social Protection
This open access book collects expert contributions on actuarial modelling and related topics, from machine learning to legal aspects, and reflects on possible insurance designs during an epidemic/pandemic. Starting by considering the impulse given by COVID-19 to the insurance industry and to actuarial research, the text covers compartment models, mortality changes during a pandemic, risk-shari…
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- 9783030783341
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- 298p. ; ill.
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- 368.400 952 MAR p
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