This book provides an accessible guide to price index and hedonic techniques, with a focus on how to best apply these techniques and interpret the resulting measures. One goal of this book is to provi ... Read more
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The financial crisis of 2007 and the following recession present a major challenge to macroeconomic theory. The same holds true for exceptionally low interest rates during the recent years and for the ... Read more
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Peter Scott's Accounting for Business provides a refreshingly clear and accessible introduction to the core accounting topics that non-specialist students need to master.
A combination of supportive ... Read more
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The second half of the nineteenth century is correctly known to have culminated in the emergence of the gold standard as the first truly international monetary regime. The processes leading up to this ... Read more
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This book presents development strategies and lessons based on a large range of 'success' countries across the developing world. In addition to the country cases, it presents regional and overall synt ... Read more
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Introduces Adam Smith through an overview of his writings and moral philosophy
Provides a non-technical, accessible account of Smith's central ideas in The Wealth of Nations
Outlines Smith ... Read more
Tipping points are zones or thresholds of profound changes in natural or social conditions with very considerable and largely unforecastable consequences. Tipping points may be dangerous for societies ... Read more
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Human Development has been advocated as the prime development goal since 1990, when the publication of the first UNDP Human Development Report proposed that development should improve the lives people ... Read more
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Theodore H. Ahlers; Hiroshi Kato; Harinder S. Kohli; Callisto Madavo; Anil Sood
Pages
524 Pages
Format
Hardcover
Size
196 x 257 mm
Pub date
Feb 2014
Africa is at a critical inflection point. After decades of disappointing performance a combination of sound macro policies and a commodity price bonanza has led to a dramatic and long overdue surge in ... Read more
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Emphasizing the need for urgency, this work assesses the challenges and provides concrete policy recommendations that can be taken by Africa's leaders and citizens in the key areas to reset their econ ... Read more
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