Economics

This study offers an analysis of the UK's current economic policy options and a plan for improving life for ordinary citizens via a sensible and realistic understanding of governments' limited ability to manage economic performance. It provides a manifesto which political parties could immediately adopt to make life better for all.

It may seem like the worst has come and gone, but it hasn't. With their proven track record of accurate predictions and how to invest for long-term success in today's turbulent market, the authors are now trusted names in finance. Based on their predications, one thing is certain: things are not going back to how they were before.

Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their power and place relative to those above and below them in a class-structured society.

This contextual update shows that central banks continue to be relevant and essential for sound functioning of economies. Central banks require to pursue traditional functions relating to currency and payment systems and to being banker to the government and to banks as vigorously as before the crisis.

The financial crisis of 2007-08 and the Great Recession caused more widespread economic trauma than any event since the Great Depression. This title maintains that while each part of the financial services industry can play a useful role in revving up the US economic engine to full capacity.

A compilation of papers, presented at the South Asia Economics Students' Meet, on the theme 'Economic Challenges to Make South Asia Free from Poverty and Deprivation'. They are divided into four sections: Accelerating Rural Growth and Empowering the Rural Poor; Investing in the Social Sector; Improving the Quality of Physical Infrastructure; and Accountability, Institutions and Economic Growth.

This book provides an authoritative account of the economic and political roots of the 2008 financial crisis, examining why it was triggered in the United States and its lasting impact on both the American and global economies.

This report provides concrete policy recommendations for African policy makers and their development partners on how to promote sustainable structural transformation in Africa, meaning a sustainable structural transformation that integrates the relative decoupling of natural resource use and environmental ...

This publication, a compendium of analytic information on infrastructure finance, is about up-to-date treatment of deployable tools and techniques in accessible manner, and at an appropriate level, practical applications of guidelines of Reserve Bank of India and policies of Government of India on financing ...

Western economies face huge political obstacles to reforms that would boost productivity and growth - continuing stagnation is far more likely. Businesses and policymakers need to adjust to the new reality. And the quicker they do so, the more likely it is that economic prospects will eventually improve.

The pronounced shift in the global demand for and supply of capital has led to the start of what Global Development Horizons 2012 identifies as the Third Age of Financial Globalization, during which developing countries will become highly integrated into the global financial system-similar to their degree of integration in the international trade system at the present.

The recession is over! For now is the new economic reality, especially for aspiring and mature SME's. Both exciting and possibly uncharted times lie ahead. Are you and your business really ready? The economic environment is changing, dynamic, and your business should be ready now, innovating and preparing new ideas to take full advantage.

This volume chronicles the volatile history of the resurgence of South Africa, once an international pariah, as a respected and influential African state.

Focuses largely on developments within the United States and Japan but looks at those in other nations as well. This title examines two broad areas: the Japanese approach to regulating financial institutions and promoting financial stability and the US approach in light of the Dodd-Frank Act.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. When the links in the chain represent development projects, if individual projects fail to achieve their purpose, the development program's effectiveness is compromised. When the chain's links are strong and well-connected, the results are improved for the ...

Contents include: Price and Financial Stability in Modern Central Banking: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System, 1997-2007; and Temporal Aggregation in Political Budget Cycles.

This original and topical book tells the untold stories of migrants' experiences of, and responses to, financial exclusion in London.

Foreign Direct Investment and Development is an excellent textbook for courses in trade, development, and international political economy.