A Review of the Trinidad and Tobago Model and Analysis of Future Chall
This book chronicles the history of the petroleum industry in Trinidad and Tobago and appraises major policy decisions impacting its economy. The book will be useful as a source document to students, researchers, policy makers, and anyone interested in developments in the energy sector in a small developing state.
Highlights the Economic Performance Insurance (EPI) plan to tackle the New Deal's unsolved problems. This book explains that the indignity and physical suffering of the jobless themselves do not have to continue, job discrimination can be combated, and our national income will rise as "non-production" declines.
The research described in this book suggests that a properly designed and sufficiently massive economic development assistance project-a Global Marshall Plan-could tremendously reduce the economic gap between the richest and poorest nations within a 50-year planning period.
This volume - the latest publication from the Visions of Governance in the 21st Century program at the Kennedy School of Government - explores the way evolving markets alter the pursuit of cherished public goals.
Discusses a variety of issues connected with deindustrialization and diminished competitiveness. The authors distinguish between problems that would be of real concern and those that should not. They also evaluate explanations for slow growth in aggregate productivity in the United States and its relation to slower growth in other industrialized ......
Why do so many advocates remain silent on key issues they care about and how does that silence contribute to narrowly defined policies? What can individuals and organizations do to amplify their privately expressed concerns for policy change? This title addresses these questions through the lens of state-level health care advocacy for the poor.
In this commemorative volume, India's top business leaders and economic luminaries come together to provide a balanced picture of the consequences of the country's economic reforms, which were initiated in 1991. What were the reforms? What were they intended for? How have they affected the overall functioning of the economy?
Provides a snapshot of the issues posed by the growing concentrations of income, focusing on the United States but drawing on international comparisons to help set the context. This book examines the economic, technological, and political drivers of inequality and identify worrying trends associated with its rise.
Deregulation has been at the top of Japan's economic policy agenda for many years. Now, in the midst of a financial crisis that engulfs all of Asia, pressures on the Japanese government for substantial reform--coming from both inside and outside forces--are stronger than ever.
