ABSTRACT
Written by over 20 leading international economists, this book offers win-win scenarios to economic problems. As in the other volumes of this set of public policy handbooks, the Handbook of Global Economic Policy employs a unique organizational principle: from viewing economic problems from conservative and liberal perspectives, to developing practical, non-ideological solutions to the problems, and finally testing the solution's feasibility in terms of economic, administrative, political, psychological, legal, international, and technological obstacles. The authors confront conventional wisdom about tradeoffs between unemployment and inflation, economic growth and displaced workers, and c
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|14 pages
Reforming Transport with Dominant State-Owned Enterprises
Democratic Republic of Congo (Formerly Zaire)
chapter 4|28 pages
International Financial Institutions and the Politics of Structural Adjustment
The African Experience
chapter 5|17 pages
Mechanisms for Labor Harmony
Dispute Resolution in the Industrial Courts of Kenya and Zambia
chapter 6|20 pages
Industrial Policy and Regional Development
A Diachronic Comparison of Japanese and South Korean Economic Strategies
chapter 9|15 pages
Policies and Strategies of International Organizations in Combating Child Labor in India
A Win-Win Analysis
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chapter 17|24 pages
State Revenue Administration Problems in a Transition Economy
State Revenue Service of the Republic of Latvia
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chapter 19|24 pages
Political Economy of Income Distribution in Britain
Demography, Market, and Party Politics, 1979–1987
chapter 23|16 pages
Elections and Democratization in Mexico
Tax Policy in the “Opposition” Congress
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chapter 25|23 pages
Neighbors, Informal Job Brokers, and the Employment Problem of the Urban Poor
Can Dispersal Strategies Improve Access to Informal Job Networks?
