This book contains: 1. Growth and opportunity: Creating a new economic order 2. Macroeconomic policy and performance 3. Economic challenges of an aging population 4. The labor market 5. Inequality and economic rewards 6. Refining the role of government in the United States market economy 7. American leadership in the emerging global economy
This book contains: 1. Perspective on the economy and economic policy 2. Recent developments and the economic outlook 3. Monetary and fiscal policy in the current environment 4. The economics of health care 5. Markets and regulation reform 6. Economic growth and future generations 7. Whither international trade and finance?
This book contains: 1. Economic policy for the 21st century 2. Macroeconomic policy and performance 3. Making fiscal policy choices within and across generations 4. Devolution 5. Economic efficiency and regulatory reform 6. Promoting competition in traditionally regulated industries 7. Investing in educatuon and training 8. The United States in the world economy
Nigeria's future as a unified state is in jeopardy. Those who make or execute U.S. policy will find it difficult to advance U.S. interests in Africa without an understanding of the pressures that tear and bind Nigeria. Despite this, the centrifugal forces that tear at the country and the centripetal forces that have kept it whole are not well understood and rarely examined. After establishing N…
The economic indicators tell us exactly what we accomplished these last three years. But economic growth by itself is not the truest measure of what we have been able to do. More important is that we have restored ordinary people's faith in our capacity to accomplish things together: we have reawakened popular optimism.
APEC is a unique organization that promotes economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. It remains an informal intergovernmental organization that provides a useful platform for leaders, ministers, businessmen and experts to discuss regional issues on a regular basis. This book examines APECs accomplishments in recent years and the challenges it faces in the new century. These challenges i…
Expanding horizons: Australia and Indonesia into the 21st century present a collection of papers by Australian and Indonesia authors which focus on economic cooperation between Australia and Indonesia as we move into the 21st century. Trade and investment between the two countries is analysed and new sectors for future collaboration are identified.
Between 2000 and 2010, six of the ten fastest-growing economies worldwide were African. In this favorable environment, how do we make sure jobs and poverty reduction follow? Now is the time for African countries to consider how economic growth and political liberalization should reinforce each other. Africa has experienced two liberations: the first from colonial and racist regimes and the seco…
Much of the debate on green growth and environmental governance tends to be general in nature, and is often conceptual or limited to single disciplines - such as green growth being dominated by economists and governance by political scientists. This book examines such terms within the context of wide-interest topics including education, oceans and cities, and mixes conceptual discussion with em…
No other country in the world excites so much concern and interest among thoughtful Americans as does the Soviet Union. This book, as the title emphasizes, delves into the Soviet Union's economic organization, growth and challenges.