Libros de: Brookings Institution Press

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  • Growth Management And Affordable Housing: Do They Conflict?.

    Downs, Alan

    Brookings Institution Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780815719335
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.29,45 €

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    Advocates of growth management and smart growth often advocate policies that raise house prices. This study asks if this is an inevitable conflict, or whether growth management/smart growth can promote policies that help increase the ...

  • The Monetary Geography Of Africa.

    Masson, Paul R. Pattillo, Catherine

    Brookings Institution Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780815755005
    • Páginas: 300
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.49,80 €

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    A review of the history of monetary arrangements on the African continent, this title analyses the situation and prospects for further integration. The author's argue that the goal of creating a single African currency is ...

  • The Price Of The Past. Russi'S Struggle With The Legacy Of a Militarized Economy.

    Gaddy, Clifford

    Brookings Institution Press (1996)

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    • EAN: 9780815730163
    • Páginas: 225
    • Fecha de edición: 1996

    pvp.33,06 €

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    For nearly sixty years, the Soviet Union had the most militarized economy in history. The sheer volume of arms produced, and the physical and human dimensions of the industrial apparatus used to produce those arms, ...

  • The World Bank'S Lending In South Asia.

    Guhan, Sanjivi

    Brookings Institution Press (1995)

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    • EAN: 9780815733096
    • Páginas: 100
    • Fecha de edición: 1995

    pvp.12,62 €

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    In the past two decades, the World Bank´s contributions to economic development in the South Asia have been substantial, increasing significantly from previous years. Focusing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the ...

  • The New Gatt.

    Bosworth, B. Collins, Susan

    Brookings Institution Press (1994)

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    • EAN: 9780815710295
    • Páginas: 128
    • Fecha de edición: 1994

    pvp.19,23 €

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    The new GATT encompasses a set of agreements governing trade in goods, trade in services, the protection of intellectual property rights, and new procedures for resolving trade disputes. All of these measures are to be ...

  • Challenges For Russian Economic Reform.

    Smith, Adam

    Brookings Institution Press (1995)

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    • EAN: 9780815780250
    • Páginas: 300
    • Fecha de edición: 1995

    pvp.25,24 €

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    It contains papers published by the Post-Soviet Business Forum at the Royal Institute for International Affairs that have been revised for this volume. The contributors, specialists in Russian economic affairs examine the principal econoimc and ...

  • Investment Opportunities In Russia And The Cis.

    Dyker, David

    Brookings Institution Press (1995)

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    • EAN: 9780815719991
    • Páginas: 300
    • Fecha de edición: 1995

    pvp.25,24 €

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    It contains papers published by the Post-Soviet Business Forum at the Royal Institute of International Affairs that have been revised for this volume. It provides a sober, long-term assessment of investment priorities in the former ...

  • The Logic Of Economic Reform In Russia.

    Hough, Jerry

    Brookings Institution Press (2001)

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    • EAN: 9780815737537
    • Páginas: 318
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.30,05 €

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    Russia's free-market reforms have not been undetermined by any single person of feature, contends Jerry Hough in this thought-provokin book. Hough argues that a combination of factors -including Boris Yeltsin's political reach into institutions of ...

  • The Welfare Marketplace: Privatization And Welfare Reform

    Sanger, Bryna

    Brookings Institution Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780815777052
    • Páginas: 150
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.25,00 €

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    This study examines the trend toward competitive contracting of government functions. By focusing on four jurisdictions that hired private firms to handle welfare-to-work services, it reveals the ways in which increased contracting with the private ...

  • States, Markets, And Just Growth. Development In The Twenty-First Century.

    Kohli, Atul Moon, Chung-In Sorensen, Georg

    Brookings Institution Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9789280810769
    • Páginas: 295
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.32,00 €

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    This volume explores the common concerns of developing countries in the quest for just growth, while emphasizing their special regional needs. The opening chapters provide an overview of the shared imperatives of globalization, democracy, poverty, ...

  • Silicon And The State: French Innovation Policy In The Internet Age.

    Trumbull, Gunnar

    Brookings Institution Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780815785972
    • Páginas: 137
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.28,00 €

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    Between 1998 and 2002, France implemented an array of policies designed to promote the commercialization of new economy technologies. These efforts have turned French innovation policy on its head. Efforts to promote the new economy ...

  • Monitoring European Integration. Built to Last. A Political Architecture for Europe. Vol.12

    Berglof, Erik Eichengreen, Barry Roland, Gerard Tabellini, G. Wyplosz, Charles

    Brookings Institution Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9781898128649
    • Páginas: 80
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.58,20 €

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  • May the Best Team Win. Beseball Economics and Public Policy.

    Zimbalist, A.

    Brookings Institution Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780815797289
    • Páginas: 198
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.34,00 €

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    After the 1994 strike Major League Baseball experienced a period of distinct uncertainty. Average game attendance fell and Congress called into question baseball's presumed antitrust exemption. Broadcast rights disputes for popular teams created complications for ...

  • Application of the Oecd Anti-Bribery Convention: The United States

    Varios

    Brookings Institution Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9789264101135
    • Páginas: 80
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.22,33 €

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    Until recently, offering bribes to foreign public officials was considered a standard operating procedure by many companies attempting to enter new markets. But it has become clear that no country can afford the social, political ...

  • Financial Privacy, Consumer Prosperity, and the Public Good

    Cate, F.

    Brookings Institution Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780815713173
    • Páginas: 36
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.12,02 €

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    American consumers have become accustomed to obtaining instant credit, which is possible only because credit bureau allow quick verification of the creditworthiness of borrowers. In order to work, however, this process requires credit bureau to ...

  • Is the Market Moral?: A Dialogue on Religion, Economics and Justice.

    Blank, R. Mcgurn, W.

    Brookings Institution Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780815710219
    • Páginas: 120
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.19,95 €

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    In the great tradition of moral argument about the nature of the economic market, Rebecca Blank and William McGurn join to debate fundamental questions - equality and efficiency, productivity and social justice, individual achievement and ...

  • High-Stakes Antitrust: The Last Hurrah?

    Hahn, Roger

    Brookings Institution Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780815733959
    • Páginas: 160
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.32,54 €

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    After nearly 20 years of a "less is more" approach to antitrust, the Department of Justice under the Clinton administration took action against several significant corporations that rely on financial, transportation and electronic networks to ...

  • Restructuring Sovereign Debt: The Case for AD Hoc Machinery

    Rieffel, L.

    Brookings Institution Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780815774464
    • Páginas: 368
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.49,80 €

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    The Western powers established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank after World War II as "permanent machinery" to anchor the Bretton Woods system. When developing countries began experiencing debt problems in the ...

  • The Future of Domestic Capital Markets in Developing Countries

    Litan, Robert E. Pomerleano, Michael

    Brookings Institution Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780815752998
    • Páginas: 400
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.49,80 €

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    Now in its fifth year, the "Emerging Markets Series" from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Brookings Institution offers financial policymakers and practitioners a unique resource. Drawn from the proceedings of the 2003 Financial ...

  • Asia and Africa in the Global Economy

    Aryeetey, Ernest Court, J.

    Brookings Institution Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9789280810899
    • Páginas: 400
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.51,51 €

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    The performances of Asian and African economies over recent decades has clearly shown that engagement with the global economy can play a key role of advancing development. Researchers and policymakers have paid particular attention to ...