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This book provides a comprehensive human rights analysis of key areas of law affecting older persons, including legal capacity; elder abuse; accommodation and aged care; healthcare; employment; financial security, retirement, and estate planning; and social and cultural participation...
The Human Rights of Older Persons : A Human Rights-Based Approach to Elder Law
(eBOOK, 2020)
Las cuestiones hacia las que dirigieron su atención las mujeres economistas no difieren de las que ocuparon a sus colegas masculinos, así entre otros temas sobresalientes se ocuparon del estudio del crecimiento económico, el comercio internacional, el dinero, el crédito y la banca, el mercado de trabajo o los impuestos. Nuestro libro no recoge sus ideas tan sólo porque fueran mujeres, sino porque fueron importantes en el desarrollo de la teoría económica o en su difusión y divulgación...
Mujeres economistas. Las aportaciones de las mujeres a la ciencia económica y a su divulgación
(eBOOK, 2007)
Without access to mainstream financial services, people pay more for goods and services and have less choice. The impacts of exclusion are not just financial but also affect education, employment, health, housing, and overall well-being. Limited access to financial services also impedes economic development in impoverished communities, which has prompted policy-makers, private institutions and NGOs to develop strategies to address financial inclusion...
Financial Inclusion
(eBOOK, 2021)
As people age, they are at increased risk of having their basic human rights threatened or violated. When age is perceived as incompetence, it can easily lead to discrimination that impacts human rights. Based on the premise that social policy must reflect human rights principles, this graduate-level textbook views the challenges associated with aging as opportunities for policy development that stresses the rights of older adults rather than needs...
Social Policy for an Aging Society : A Human Rights Perspective
(eBOOK, 2015)
This book addresses the questions of discrimination, vulnerable consumers, and financial inclusion in the light of the emerging legal, socioeconomic, and technological challenges. New technologies – such as artificial intelligence-driven consumer credit risk assessment and Fintech platforms, the changing nature of vulnerability due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as well as ...
Discrimination, Vulnerable Consumers and Financial Inclusion: Fair Access to Financial Services...
(eBOOK, 2021)
This book focuses on descriptions of the developments in legal frameworks and policies regarding the human rights of older persons. First, it covers the policies adopted and practices developed at the universal system, particularly within the sphere of the United Nations. Second, it includes a side-by-side comparison of the work of regional human rights mechanisms, which have picked up some momentum in the past decade...
Human Rights of Older People : Universal and Regional Legal Perspectives
(eBOOK,2015)
This book analyzes public debt from a political, historical, and global perspective. It demonstrates that public debt has been a defining feature in the construction of modern states, a main driver in the history of capitalism, and a potent geopolitical force. From revolutionary crisis to empire and the rise and fall of a post-war world order, the problem of ...
A World of Public Debts : A Political History
(eBOOK, 2020)
Climate change is expected to influence several productive sectors, the most significant of which is agriculture. Agriculture comprises an important sector of the global economy that includes crops, livestock, and seafood. Agriculture, aquaculture, and fisheries are closely linked to the climate, with changes in climatic conditions able to drastically affect animal and plant productivity, which in turn has a direct impact on human well-being...
Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Aquaculture
(eBOOK, 2020)
Natural gas markets have undergone momentous changes, worldwide. This book updates and expands on the dynamics, performance and forward path of expanding natural gas use in the US and worldwide, including international trade. It brings together major research themes and findings with recent updates and analysis of new trends and developments. It also ...
Monetizing Natural Gas in the New “New Deal” Economy
(eBOOK, 2021)
The last time global sovereign debt reached the level seen today was at the end of the Second World War, and this shaped a generation of economic policymaking. International institutions were transformed, country policies were often draconian and distortive, and many crises ensued. By the early 1970s, when ...
Sovereign Debt : A Guide for Economists and Practitioners
(eBOOK, 2019)
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of central banks, and aims to demystify them for the general public, which is the only way to have a rational debate about them and ultimately to make them truly accountable. The book originates from the author's graduate lectures on Central Banking at the University of Frankfurt J.W. Goethe. It contains an overview of all the key questions surrounding central banks and their role in the economy...
The Economics of Central Banking
(eBOOK, 2018)
It has been suggested that agriculture may account for up to 24% of the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) contributing to climate change. At the same time climate change is threatening to disrupt agricultural production. This collection reviews key research addressing this challenge. Climate change is the biggest challenge agriculture faces...
Climate Change and Agriculture
(eBOOK, 2020)
As a result of climate change, ocean temperatures are warming and sea levels are rising. Natural disasters have been increasing in frequency and ferocity. Yet, over six decades, Cuba has developed a world-leading model for disaster preparedness and risk reduction. Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Management and Adaptation discusses the island's ongoing resilience against the impacts of climate change...
Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba : Management and Adaptation
(eBOOK, 2021)
It is now clear that a narrow focus on the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) is insufficient to achieve humanity’s aspirations for sustainable prosperity. Wellfunctioning ecosystems and educated populations are requisites for sustainable wellbeing. These and other too-often-neglected ingredients of national wealth must be addressed if the development path is to be sustainable...
The Changing Wealth of Nations 2021 : Managing Assets for the Future
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Global supply chain integration is not only a rapidly growing feature of international trade, it is responsible for fundamentally changing trade policy at international and domestic levels. Given that final goods are produced with both domestic and foreign suppliers, Ka Zeng and Xiaojun Li argue that global supply chain integration pits firms and industries that are more ...
Fragmenting Globalization : The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the ...
(eBOOK, 2021)