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Author: José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs
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Published: 2014-05-05
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9789221285663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book helps connect the dots between economic theory, the role of capabilities, the lessons from history and the practical challenges of design and implementation of industrial policies. In so doing it provides an excellent policy roadmap for anyone interested in the challenge of promoting catch-up growth and productive transformation.
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marion Jansen
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789221253211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patrick Schröder
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-12
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0429783698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe circular economy is a policy approach and business strategy that aims to improve resource productivity, promote sustainable consumption and production and reduce environmental impacts. This book examines the relevance of the circular economy in the context of developing countries, something which to date is little understood. This volume highlights examples of circular economy practices in developing country contexts in relation to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), informal sector recycling and national policy approaches. It examines a broad range of case studies, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, and Thailand, and illustrates how the circular economy can be used as a new lens and possible solution to cross-cutting development issues of pollution and waste, employment, health, urbanisation and green industrialisation. In addition to more technical and policy oriented contributions, the book also critically discusses existing narratives and pathways of the circular economy in the global North and South, and how these differ or possibly even conflict with each other. Finally, the book critically examines under what conditions the circular economy will be able to reduce global inequalities and promote human development in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Presenting a unique social sciences perspective on the circular economy discourse, this book is relevant to students and scholars studying sustainability in economics, business studies, environmental politics and development studies.
Author: Alejandro Portes
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Published: 1989-03
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York roofer requests payment in cash. A Bogota car mechanic sets up "shop" on a quiet side street. Four Mexican immigrants assemble semiconductors in a San Diego home. A Leningrad doctor sells needed medicine to a desperate patient. All are part of a growing worldwide phenomenon that is widely known but little understood. The informal or underground economy is thriving today, not only in the Third World countries where it was first reported and studied but also in Eastern Europe and the developed nations of the West. The Informal Economy is the first book to bring together studies from all three of these settings and to integrate them into a coherent theoretical framework. Taking an international perspective, the authors dispel a number of misconceptions about the informal economy. They make clear, for instance, that it is not solely a province of the poor. Cutting across social strata, it reflects a political and economic realignment between employers and workers and a shift in the regulatory mission of the government. Throughout, the authors' theoretical observations serve not only to unify material from diverse sources but also to map out directions for further research.
Author: Susan E. Cozzens
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9400920911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn a mountainside in sunny Tuscany, in October 1989, 96 people from 23 countries on five continents gathered to learn and teach about the problems of managing contemporary science. The diversity of economic and political systems represented in the group was matched by our occupations, which stretched from science policy practitioners, through research scientists and engineers, through academic observers of science and science policy. It was this diversity, along with the opportunities for infonnal discussion provided by long meals and remote location, that made the conference a special learning experience. Except at lecture time, it was impossible to distinguish the "students" at this event from the "teachers," and even the most senior members of the teaching staff went away with a sense that they had learned more from this group than from many a standard conference on science policy they had attended. The flavor of the conference experience cannot be captured adequately in a proceedings volume, and so we have not tried to create a historical record in this book. Instead, we have attempted to illustrate the core problems the panicipants at the conference shared, discussed, and debated, using both lectures delivered by the fonnal teaching staff and summaries of panel discussions, which extended to other panicipants and therefore increased the range of experiences reponed.
Author: Peter B. Doeringer
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1985-06
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780765632128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses the institutional aspects of the American labor market. The introduction assesses the major changes since 1971.
Author: Guillermo Perry
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0821370936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes informality in Latin America, exploring root causes and reasons for and implications of its growth. This book uses two distinct but complementary lenses. It concludes that reducing informality levels and overcoming the "culture of informality" will require actions to increase aggregate productivity in the economy.
Author: Leon Brittan
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines and explains the crucial, but often mystifying issues facing Europe and its constituent countries: subsidiarity, the pros and cons of a shared foreign policy, trade barriers and the free movement of people, monetary union and the nightmare question of the common agricultural policy.
Author: Judi Marshall
Publisher: Cengage Learning Business Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780415097390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent research shows there is a surprisingly high exodus of successful female executives from the corporate sector. This takes place at a level well beyond the conventional family-raising stage and appears to be related to more fundamental issues of life-style choice and alienation from a male corporate culture. This book explores the phenomenon through a qualitative study of 16 women who have reached middle or senior management levels and paused to review their careers. By telling their stories in detail, Marshall explores their experiences of working in male-dominated cultures, being change agents, why they decided to leave and what their next steps are. Recent research shows there is a surprisingly high exodus of successful female executives from the corporate sector. This takes place at a level well beyond the conventional family-raising stage and appears to be related to more fundamental issues of life-style choice and alienation from a male corporate culture. This book explores the phenomenon through a qualitative study of 16 women who have reached middle or senior management levels and paused to review their careers. By telling their stories in detail, Marshall explores their experiences of working in male-dominated cultures, being change agents, why they decided to leave and what their next steps are.
