Robert M. Hayden, From Yugoslavia to the Western Balkans: Studies of a European Disunion, 1991–2011
In: European history quarterly, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 334-335
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: European history quarterly, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 334-335
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: Academy of International Business (UKI) Series
In: The Academy of International Business Ser.
The challenge in the post crisis world is how business, government and academia come together to foster conditions for sustainable economic development. Understanding this requires an examination of the fundamental principles of IB, including location decisions, returns to multinationality and links between government and business, and CSR.
In: Academy of International Business (UKI) series
International Business and Institutions after the Financial Crisis provides an in-depth discussion and offers new insights concerning the ways in which firms from developed and emerging countries are performing in the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. This book examines various issues from different viewpoints, and draws on research conducted in different country settings.
In: Cultural studies - critical methodologies, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 361-368
ISSN: 1552-356X
The possibilities for developing the poet Douglas Dunn's archive (which includes the drafts and manuscripts for his collection Elegies, dealing with the terminal illness and death of the poet's wife from cancer) for therapeutic benefit are explored by an English lecturer (C.J.) and a palliative care practitioner (C.M.). This has led us to explore the potential benefit of this resource for health practitioners working with those affected by cancer and other life-limiting conditions. This article offers a "written conversation" (an acknowledged oxymoron of genre) about working with the themes of death and loss: a conversation which includes Douglas Dunn, who was not actually there. We reflect on the value of this "confabulation" as methodological inquiry, and its potential influence on practice. Thus, an example of "creative writing" (the confabulation) becomes a piece of research into methodology regarding the use of "creative writing" resources (the poetry archive) in palliative health care.
In: European history quarterly, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 124-125
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: The European journal of development research: journal of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), Band 25, Heft 2, S. 173-196
ISSN: 0957-8811
World Affairs Online
In: The European journal of development research, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 173-196
ISSN: 1743-9728
In: Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
Adult social care in Britain has been at the centre of much media and public attention in recent years. Revelations of horrific abuse in learning disability settings, the collapse of major private care home providers, abject failures of inspection and regulation, and uncertainty over how long-term care of older people should be funded have all given rise to serious public concern. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Iain Ferguson and Michael Lavalette give an historical overview of adult social care. The roots of the current crisis are located in the under-valuing of older people and adults with disabilities and in the marketisation of social care over the past two decades. The authors critically examine recent developments in social work with adults, including the personalisation agenda, and the prospects for adult social care and social work in a context of seemingly never-ending austerity
In: The state of welfare
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 324-335
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 324-335
ISSN: 0305-750X
World Affairs Online
The majority of African countries implemented import liberalisation in the 1990s. This paper explores factors that may explain the pattern of protection and of tariff reform. We consider political economy explanations, motivated specifically by the Grossman and Helpman (1994) model of protection in response to industry lobbies, and the possibility that reforms are technocratic. Using industry-level data for a sample of six African countries, we find limited evidence that political economy factors have influenced the pattern of tariffs or tariff reductions since the early 1990s. One result does appear frequently: relative sector size (measured by the number of employees or establishments) appears to be associated with the relative level of protection. We then explore various descriptive statistics for tariff changes in seven African countries. The analysis suggests that the pattern of tariff reductions was essentially technocratic in structure - across the board reduction in average tariffs and in the dispersion of rates, with larger proportional reductions for higher tariffs - consistent with policy reforms being guided by the World Bank. While political economy factors may have influenced the initial pattern of protection, the technocratic reforms since the early 1990s have diluted political economy influences on average and relative protection.
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