Here, experts discuss the appropriateness and effectiveness using public policy to influence fertility decisions. The chapters show that it is difficult to gauge the effectiveness of policy interventions such as child-care subsidies, support for women's labour-force participation, and tax incentives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The definitive insider's account of Russia's painful transition to a market economy, as told by the IMF's senior man in Moscow at the time.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Access to education increased enormously in the past century, and higher proportions of people are completing primary, secondary, or tertiary education than ever before. But efforts to universalize the provision of high-quality schooling face major problems. In Educating All Children (which grew out of a multidisciplinary project undertaken by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences), leading…
A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau. On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he sees them as letters, a flood, a path, time, memory, flesh. The bark serves as a springboard to Didi-Huberman's m…