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The unequal effects of globalization
"A look at the effects of globalization on within-country inequality and implications of policies to address this"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375566
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Inequality :a genetic history
"New genomic studies on ancient remains are unveiling different forms of inequality that were prevalent in the past and have shaped the genomes of humankind"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262369176
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Innovation + equality :how to create a future that is more Star trek than Ter…
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- 9780262356084
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- 1 online resource (168 pages).
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The Vanishing Middle Class :Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy.
Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor and how racism helped bring this about.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262348768
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- 1 online resource (288 pages)
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Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America
Papers from a conference held at the Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research in G?ottingen, Germany, in July 2005 and co-sponsored by the CESifo research network.Here, experts examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and policies to address them using new tools and data.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255400
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- 1 online resource (vi, 324 pages) :illustrations.
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Schools and the equal opportunity problem
Leading researchers from the United States and Europe report on new findings on the effect of education on equal opportunity, using economic and statistical techniques to assess the results of education policy reform in countries including the United Stat.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286381
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- 1 online resource (vi, 327 pages) :illustrations.
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Water Resource Economics Towards a Sustainable Use of Water for Irrigation i…
This book uses resource economics costing approaches incorporating externalities to estimate the returns for the country’s irrigation and demonstrates how underestimating the cost of water leads farmers to overestimate profits. The importance of the subject can be judged in light of the fact that India is the largest user of groundwater both for irrigation and for drinking purposes, pumping t…
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Chapter A study of economic inequality in the light of fiscal sources: the ca…
This essay aims to present the first results of an ongoing research project devoted to study the evolution of the economic inequality in Catalonia based on different documentary sources and parameters. Here we focus on the strengths and limits of the rich fiscal sources preserved between the 14th and 18th century allowing us an analysis of inequality. This study is limited to the period before …
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Understanding the Dynamics of Global Inequality Social Exclusion, Power Shif…
Despite the fact that the globalization process tends to reinforce existing inequality structures and generate new areas of inequality on multiple levels, systematic analyses on this very important field remain scarce. Hence, this book approaches the complex question of inequality not only from different regional perspectives, covering Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin and Northern America, but also …
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Global Citizenship Education Critical and International Perspectives
This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conceptual input and to open global citizenship agendas to diversity and indigeneity. Social and political changes brought …
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