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Ageing And Pension Reform Around The World: Evidence From Eleven Countries

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005

Population ageing and the resulting pressures on existing pension systems constitutes one of the most important challenges modern societies will have to face over the coming decades. Although governments have responded to such pressures by adopting a plethora of pension reforms, the adaptation process is far from over. This book comprehensively...

Handbook on the Knowledge Economy

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005

This fascinating Handbook defines how knowledge contributes to social and economic life, and vice versa. It considers the five areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge economy; social, cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical and intellectual capital; knowledge and innovation...

European-American Trade And Financial Alliances (New Horizons in International Business)

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005

In this, his final book, Gavin Boyd has brought together a distinguished group of experts on the nature and extent of transatlantic policy coordination and its implication for corporate strategy. This remarkably relevant set of papers offers a discussion on the economic and financial linkage between Europe and North America, as well as the trade...

Handbook of Alternative Monetary Economics (Elgar Original Reference)

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007

This major new Handbook consists of over 30 contributions that explore the full range of exciting and interesting work on money and finance, currently taking place within heterodox economics.

There are many themes and facets of alternative monetary and financial economics but two major ones can be identified. The first concerns the nature...

Handbook on International Trade Policy (Elgar Original Reference)

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007

Controversy over the conduct and coordination of international trade policy has become a politically charged issue in current times. At the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Seattle in 1999, groups from civil society went to the barricades to protest various facets of ‘globalization’. Similar spectacles have been...

Handbook on the Northeast and Southeast Asian Economies (Elgar Original Reference)

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007

Undoubtedly, the rapid transformation of a band of four Northeast Asian economies (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong) since the mid-1960s has been unprecedented in economic history. Their experience has surpassed the earlier experience of Japan’s transformation into an industrial economy, and that of the former USSR. Although...

Runic Amulets and Magic Objects

Boydell Press, 2006

The runic alphabet, in use for well over a thousand years, was employed by various Germanic groups in a variety of ways, including, inevitably, for superstitious and magical rites. Formulaic runic words were inscribed onto small items that could be carried for good luck; runic charms were carved on metal or wooden amulets to ensure peace or...

Everyone Needs a Mentor: Fostering Talent in Your Organisation

Chartered Institute, 2004

Mentoring is the most cost-efficient and sustainable method of developing talent within an organization. This book shows how set up, run and maintain a mentoring program, from selecting and matching mentors and mentees to measuring results.

You can use mentoring to: stretch talented employees to perform even better by exposure to high...

Becoming an Employer of Choice: Make Your Organization a Place Where People Want to Do Great Work

Chartered Institute, 2004

This inspiring handbook will help you assess your organization's current claim to greatness and make the business case for creating the sort of truly great company atmosphere that will attract great people who will deliver great results.

Being an 'employer of choice' is not just an HR buzzword--it makes a huge difference to your...

The New Rules of Engagement: Life-Work Balance and Employee Commitment

Chartered Institute, 2004

This book offers practical, down-to-earth solutions for developing a new psychological contract between employer and employee, leading to improved productivity, retention of key employees, attracting a better caliber of new employees, and more.

How many of your employees care enough about their work, or your organization, to do anything...

International Investment for Sustainable Development: Balancing Rights and Rewards

Earthscan, 2004

This book is the culmination of the International Sustainable and Ethical Investment Rules Project, a collaboration of researchers from the following five non-governmental organization (NGO) think-tanks:

African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi, Kenya;

Fundacion ECOS, Punta del Este, Uruguay;

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The Organization of Global Negotiations: Constructing the Climate Change Regime

Earthscan, 2005

Global negotiations – negotiations that are open to all of the world’s nation states – have become an increasingly popular means of tackling pressing problems that cut across international boundaries. Environmental issues have been at the forefront of this trend, with global negotiations at the close of the last millennium...

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