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Managing elevated risk : global liquidity, capital flows, and macroprudential…
This book discusses the risks and opportunities that arise in Emerging Asia given the context of a new environment in global liquidity and capital flows. It elaborates on the need to ensure financial and overall economic stability in the region through improved financial regulation and other policy measures to minimize the emergent risks. "Managing Elevated Risk: Global Liquidity, Capital Flows…
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- 9789812872845
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- xviii, 124p. : ill.
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- 337 AZI m
The economics of water : rules and institutions
This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it discusses and analyzes central issues in integrated water resource management, water tariffs, water markets, and transboundary water management. By illustrating the interplay …
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- 9783030484859
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- xvii, 301p. : ill.
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- 333.91 MER e
Consequences of the global financial crisis: the rhetoric of reform and regul…
The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) is the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression. Many books have explored its causes, but this book systematically explores its consequences. The focus is primarily on the policy and political consequences of the GFC. This book asks how governments responded to the challenge and what the political consequences of the combination of the GFC itself…
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- 9780199641987
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- xiv, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- 332 GRA c
Computer and Information Sciences : 31st International Symposium, ISCIS 2016,…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2016, held in Krakow, Poland, in October 2016. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart algorithms; data classification and processing; stochastic modelling; p…
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- 9783319472171
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- xiii, 278p. : ill.
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- 004 COM c
Microfinance, EU structural funds and capacity building for managing authorit…
In recent years, the European Commission has attached increasing importance to the use of financial engineering instruments rather than traditional grant-based financing for the microcredit sector, considering these to be the most efficient option available. This book presents a study of capacity building and structural funds in public managing authorities for the microcredit sector. It present…
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- 978137536020
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- xxx, 286p. : ill.
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- 332 MIC m
Non-equilibrium social science and policy : introduction and essays on new an…
The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world …
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- 9783319424248
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- viii. 232p. : ill.
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- 330.01 NON n
Knowledge and action
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectives. Some of the contributors discuss knowledge as a social construct based on collective action, while others look at knowledge as an individual capacity for action. The chapters contain theoretical frameworks as well as exper…
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- 9783319445885
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- x, 300p. : ill.
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- 306.42 KNO k
A European public investment outlook
"This outlook provides a focused assessment of the state of public capital in the major European countries and identifies areas where public investment could contribute more to stable and sustainable growth. A European Public Investment Outlook brings together contributions from a range of international authors from diverse intellectual and professional backgrounds, providing a valuable resourc…
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- 9781800640139
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- XXII, 198 p.
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- Open Reports Series
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- 658 CER e
Economic competence and financial literacy of young adults : status and chall…
The authors take a detailed look at the economic competence and financial literacy of young adults, especially of those who start an apprenticeship or who take up their studies at a university. Economic competence and financial literacy are of special interest within this group, because these young people are – mostly for the fi rst time in their lives – responsible for autonomously managin…
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- 9783847402831
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- 235 p.
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- 370.113 ECO e
A fair share of tax : a fiscal anthropology of contemporary Sweden
This book takes a taxpayer's perspective to the relations taxation creates between people and their state. Larsen proposes that in order to understand tax compliance and cheating, we have to look beyond law, psychological experiments and surveys to include tax collectors and taxpayers' practices. The text explores the view of taxes seen as citizen’s explicit economic relation to the state and…
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- 9783319697727
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- xiii, 136p. : ill.
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- 306.3 LAR f
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