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The challenges of technology and economic catch-up in emerging economies
This book synthesizes and interprets existing knowledge on technology upgrading failures as well as lessons from successes and failures in order to better understand the challenges of technology upgrading in emerging economies. The objective is to bring together in one volume diverse evidence regarding three major dimensions of technology upgrading: paths of technology upgrading, structural cha…
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- 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780192896049
- Collation
- ix, 528 p
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- 338.90091724 LEE t
HUMAN CAPITAL VERSUS BASIC INCOME : ideology and models of anti-poverty progr…
Latin America underwent two major transformations during the 2000s: the widespread election of left-leaning presidents (the so-called left turn) and the diffusion of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs)—innovative social programs that award regular stipends to poor families on the condition that their children attend school. Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the ent…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472902774
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- xv, 288 p. : ill.
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- 130.63 BOR h
Cities and affordable housing : planning, design and policy nexus
This book provides a comparative perspective on housing and planning policies affecting the future of cities, focusing on people- and place-based outcomes using the nexus of planning, design and policy. A rich mosaic of case studies features good practices of city-led strategies for affordable housing provision, as well as individual projects capitalising on partnerships to build mixed-income h…
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- edision 11
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- 9781000433838
- Collation
- xi. ;ill. :319 p.
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- Call Number
- 363.5 TSE
Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality : a global perspective
This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a unique global overview of segregation trends based on case studies by local author teams. The book shows important global trends in segregation, and proposes a Global Segregati…
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- -
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- 9783030645694
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- ix, 523p. : ill.
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- 339.2 URB u
China, Surpassing the "Middle Income Trap"
This open access book explores one of the most fiercely debated issues in China: if and how China will surpass the middle income trap that has plagued many developing countries for years. This book gives readers a clear picture of China today and acts as a reference for other developing countries. China is facing many setbacks and experiencing an economic slowdown in recent years due to some…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811565403
- Collation
- xix, 218p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 330.0095 ZHO c
Social cash transfer in Turkey : toward market citizenship
This open access book asks whether cash-transfer programs for very low-income households promote social and economic citizenship and, if so, under what conditions. To this end, it brings together elements that are too often considered separately: the transformation of social and economic citizenship rights in a market-centered context, and the increasing popularity of cash transfer as an instru…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030703813
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- ix, 149p. : ill.
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- -
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- 323.6 ARK s
Unequal family lives : causes and consequences in Europe and the Americas
Across the Americas and Europe, the family has changed and marriage is in retreat. To answer the question of what's driving these changes and how they impact social and economic inequality, progressives have typically focused on the economic causes of changing family structures, whereas conservatives tend to stress cultural and policy roots. In this illuminating book, an international group of …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108235525
- Collation
- xix, 327p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 306.850973 UNE u
A political science manifesto for the age of populism : challenging growth, m…
Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globali…
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- -
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- 9781108785440
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- x, 245p. : ill.
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- -
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- 320.473 RIC p
State of empowerment : low-income families and the new welfare state
On weekday afternoons, dismissal bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important activity: the federally funded after-school programs that offer tutoring, homework help, and basic supervision to millions of American children. Nearly one in four low-income families enroll a child in an after-school program. Beyond sharpening students’ math and readin…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472131648
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- vii, 170p. : ill.
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- -
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- 371.04 BAR s
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