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Cover Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy
Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy
Editor: Jacques Charmes
This Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy captures the magnitude of the informal economy for the global labour force. It unravels numerous concepts, definitions and methods of data collection to offer valuable insight into the differences between the informal, non-observed and shadow economies.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
18 Sep 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972802
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Industrial Relations in Emerging Economies
Industrial Relations in Emerging Economies
The Quest for Inclusive Development
Editors: Susan Hayter and Chang-Hee Lee
This book examines industrial and employment relations in the emerging economies of Brazil, China, India, South Africa and Turkey, and assesses the contribution of industrial relations institutions to inclusive development. The book uses real-world examples to examine the evolution of industrial relations and of organised interest representation on labour issues. It reveals contested institutional pathways, despite a continuing demand for independent collective interest representation in labour relations.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
07 Apr 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114387
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Economics 2018
Cover Handbook of International Development and Education
Handbook of International Development and Education
Editors: Pauline Dixon, Steve Humble, and Chris Counihan
This Handbook considers the myths and untruths that currently exist in international development and education. Using historic and contemporary evidence, this compendium redefines the international development narrative through a new understanding of 'what works', drawn from pragmatic ideas and approaches.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
26 Jun 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783473540
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Social And Political Science 2015
Cover Managing the Middle-Income Transition
Managing the Middle-Income Transition
Challenges Facing the People’s Republic of China
Editors: Juhzon Zhuang, Paul Vandenberg, and Yiping Huang
The growth model of the People’s Republic of China has been based on high investments, exports, low-cost advantage, and government interventions. This model has successfully transformed the country from a low-income to an upper middle-income economy. However, the model has generated contradictions that could undermine future growth. Making the transition to high income requires greater reliance on efficiency and productivity improvement, innovation, and market competition. This book examines the challenges faced by the People’s Republic of China in sustaining robust growth, and policy options for making a successful transition to a high-income economy to avoid getting caught in the middle-income trap.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
27 Feb 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783477708
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Social And Political Science 2015
Cover Labour Markets, Institutions and Inequality
Labour Markets, Institutions and Inequality
Building Just Societies in the 21st Century
Editor: Janine Berg
Labour market institutions, including collective bargaining, the regulation of employment contracts and social protection policies, are instrumental for improving the well-being of workers, their families and society. In many countries, these institutions have been eroded, whilst in other countries they do not exist at all.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Jan 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784712105
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Economics 2015
Cover The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism
The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism
Global and Development Perspectives
Editors: Laura Oso and Natalia Ribas Mateos
The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism represents a state-of-the-art review of the critical importance of the links between gender and migration in a globalising world. It draws on original, largely field-based contributions by authors across a range of disciplinary provenances worldwide.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
30 Aug 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781951477
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Social And Political Science 2013
Cover Migration and Economic Growth
Migration and Economic Growth
Mathias Czaika and Carlos Vargas-Silva

The main focus of the papers appearing in the first part of this research review is on inequality and its effects on growth, labour market integration and government policies. The review continues by dealing with migration, its determinants and its possible effect on the host country’s output, employment and standard of living. Finally, the authors discuss economic growth and its relationship with trade, capital accumulation and internal and external debts.
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Research Reviews
Publication Date:
30 Jul 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784714413
Cover Community Co-Production
Community Co-Production
Social Enterprise in Remote and Rural Communities
Editors: Jane Farmer, Carol Hill, and Sarah-Anne Muñoz
This book addresses a clutch of contemporary societal challenges including: aging demography and the consequent need for extended care in communities; public service provision in an era of retrenching welfare and global financial crises; service provision to rural communities that are increasingly ‘hollowed out’ through lack of working age people; and, how best to engender the development of community social enterprise organizations capable of providing high quality, accessible services. It is packed with information and evidence garnered from research into the environment for developing community social enterprise and co-producing services; how communities react to being asked to co-produce; what to expect in terms of the social enterprises they can produce; and, how to make them happen.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Jun 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849808415
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Social And Political Science 2012
Cover Handbook of Research Methods in Migration
Handbook of Research Methods in Migration
Editor: Carlos Vargas-Silva
Covering both qualitative and quantitative topics, the expert contributors in this Handbook explore fundamental issues of scientific logic, methodology and methods, through to practical applications of different techniques and approaches in migration research.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
30 Mar 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781005231
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Social And Political Science 2012
Cover Intellectual Property, Pharmaceuticals and Public Health
Intellectual Property, Pharmaceuticals and Public Health
Access to Drugs in Developing Countries
Editors: Kenneth C. Shadlen, Samira Guennif, Alenka Guzmán, and N. Lalitha
This up-to-date book examines pharmaceutical development, access to medicines, and the protection of public health in the context of two fundamental changes that the global political economy has undergone since the 1970s, the globalization of trade and production and the increased harmonization of national regulations on intellectual property rights.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Nov 2011
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857938619
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Law 2011