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The New Common: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Transforming Society
This open access book presents the scientific views of some fifty experts on how they believe the COVID-19 pandemic is currently affecting society, and how it will continue to do so in the years to come. Using the concept of a “common” (in the sense of common values, common places, common goods, and common sense), they elaborate on the transition from an Old Common to a New Common. In caref…
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- 978-3-030-65355-2
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Revitalizing Indian Agriculture and Boosting Farmer Incomes
This open access book provides an evidence-based roadmap for revitalising Indian agriculture while ensuring that the growth process is efficient, inclusive, and sustainable, and results in sustained growth of farmers’ incomes. The book, instead of looking for global best practices and evaluating them to assess the possibility of replicating these domestically, looks inward at the best practic…
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- 978-981-15-9335-2
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Public Financial Management and Internal Control
This open access book focuses on the ‘downstream’ element of PFM, that is how public organisations utilise public resources. It argues that improvements in PFM/IC will only flow from a recognition that what really matters is the quality of management. Management reform is an essential precondition to the successful implementation of many new techniques. Only when a managerial capacity exis…
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- 978-3-031-35065-8
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- XXIII, 579
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Corporate Finance for Long-Term Value
This open access textbook offers a guide to corporate finance for modern companies that want to create long-term value. Drawing on recent literature on sustainable companies, it starts by analysing the Sustainable Development Goals as a strategy for the transition to a sustainable economy. Next, it translates the general concept of sustainability into core corporate finance methods, such as net…
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- 978-3-031-35008-5
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- XXXIX, 630
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Global imbalances and the lessons of Bretton Woods
Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262272209
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 187 pages) : illustrations
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- Cairoli Lectures
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- 332 EIC g
Dollarization: Debates and Policy Alternatives
Theoretical and empirical analysis of de jure dollarization.With the persistent instability of international financial markets, emerging economies are exploring new ways to reduce exposure to capital flow volatility. Some analysts argue that financially open economies are best served by more flexible regimes, while others argue in favor of extreme exchange rate regimes that have a strong commit…
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- 9780262286527
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- 1 online resource (ix, 341 pages) :illustrations
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The Economics of Risk and Time
This book updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making. Von Neumann and Morgenstern pioneered the use of expected utility theory in the 1940s, but most utility functions used in financial management are still relatively simplistic and assume a mean-variance world. Taking into account recent advances in the economics of risk and un…
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- 9780262274043
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- 1 online resource (xx, 445 pages) :illustrations
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Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion
About 2.5 billion adults, just over half the world's adult population, lack bank accounts. If we are to realize the goal of extending banking and other financial services to this vast "unbanked" population, we need to consider not only such product innovations as microfinance and mobile banking but also issues of data accuracy, impact assessment, risk mitigation, technology adaptation, financia…
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- 0262305992
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- 1 online resource (vi, 511 pages)
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Exchange Rate Regimes: Choices and Consequences
An empirical study of exchange rate regimes based on data compiled from 150 member countries of the International Monetary Fund over the past thirty years.Few topics in international economics are as controversial as the choice of an exchange rate regime. Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, countries have adopted a wide variety of regimes, ranging from pure float…
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- 9780262273770
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- 1 online resource (232 pages) :illustrations
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Exchange Rates under the East Asian Dollar Standard: Living with Conflicted V…
Essays by prominent scholars and policymakers honor one of the most influential macroeconomists of the last thirty years discussing the themes behind his work.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279550
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- 1 online resource (xix, 491 pages) :illustrations
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