Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty
This unique manual provides policymakers, social planners, and economists with salient aspects of fiscal redistribution theory, a step-by-step guide to applying fiscal incidence analysis including the required software, a variety of country studies to illustrate, and data on fiscal redistribution for a large number of countries around the world.
The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup
Tackles the claim that cities chosen to host high-profile sporting events experience an economic windfall. In this new edition Andrew Zimbalist looks at upcoming summer and winter Olympic games, discusses the recent Women's World Cup, and the upcoming men's tournament in Qatar.
How will China reform its economy as it aspires to become the next economic superpower? China faces tremendous challenges such as fostering innovation, dealing with ageing problem and coping with a less accommodative global environment. In this book, economists offer in depth analyses of these challenges.
America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump
Looks at the interplay between the U.S.-led peace process and internal Palestinian politics-namely, how a badly flawed peace process helped to weaken Palestinian leaders and institutions and how an increasingly dysfunctional Palestinian leadership, in turn, hindered prospects for a diplomatic resolution.
What wasn't learned from a U.S. intervention that succeeded In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat. They were greeted by vendors and sunbathers. Fortunately, the rest of their mission--helping to end Lebanon's...
Yugoslavia was well positioned at the end of the cold war to make a successful transition to a market economy and westernization. Yet two years later, the country had ceased to exist, and devastating local wars were being waged to create new states.
Venezuela enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century but in the past two decades has increasingly descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse. Venezuela's Transition to Authoritarianism explores how and why this happened.
A history of US relations with the various entities of Yemen and the first in-depth review of America's role in the Saudi-directed war there. This book will be of interest to those seeking a better understanding of America's role in the Middle East and the tragic encounter that created the worst humanitarian catastrophe in our lives.
Does the death penalty violate the Constitution? In Against the Death Penalty, Justice Stephen Breyer argues that it does; that it is carried out unfairly and inconsistently and, thus, violates the ban on "cruel and unusual punishments"Â specified by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.
