1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910825774903321

Titolo

The G-20 summit at five : time for strategic leadership / / Kemal Dervis and Peter Drysdale, editors ; composition by R. Lynn Rivenbark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Brookings Institution Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8157-2592-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

337.1

Soggetti

International economic relations

Economic policy - International cooperation

Group of Twenty countries Foreign economic relations

Group of Twenty countries Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Principles of Global Governance; G-20 Summit at Five: Time for Strategic Leadership; Part 2: Managing the G-20; Adapting to the New Normal: The G-20 and the Advanced Economies Five Years after Washington; The Role of Emerging Economies in Major G-20 Initiatives; The G-20 in Crisis? Or the G-20 on Crises?; Part 3: The Core G-20 Economic Agenda; Monetary Policy Coordination: The Role of Central Banks; Global Rebalancing and Systemic Risk Assessment: The G-20 and the International Monetary Fund

Fiscal Policy Responses during Crises in Latin America and Europe: Implications for the G-20 The G-20 and Financial Market Regulation; The G-20 and Sustainable Development; Part 4: Other Issues for Reform of Global Governance; A G-20 Agenda for the Global Trade Regime; The G-20 and International Cooperation on Climate Change; The Chinese Economy and the Future of the G-20; Global Intrastructure Opportunities for the G-20 and Regional Organizations in the Asia Pacific Region; Contributors; Index; Back Cover



Sommario/riassunto

Can the G-20 become a steering committee for the world's economy? Launched at a moment of panic triggered by the financial crisis in late 2008, the leaders' level G-20 is trying to evolve from crisis committee for the world economy to a real steering group facilitating international economic cooperation. What can and should such a ""steering committee"" focus on? How important could the concrete gains from cooperation be? How much faster could world growth be? Is there sufficient legitimacy in the G-20 process? How does the G-20 relate to the IMF and the World Bank? How can Australia in 2015,

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910170994303321

Autore

Verdon Michel

Titolo

Rethinking households : an atomistic perspective on European living arrangements / / Michel Vernon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

0-429-23222-5

1-134-67526-7

1-280-06983-X

0-585-44888-4

0-203-45125-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 3

Disciplina

306.85

640.94

Soggetti

Households - Europe

Households - Canada

Families - Europe

Households - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Towards an atomistic set of axioms; Introduction; The ubiquity of collectivistic assumptions; Family, residence, domesticity and households: the parameters of a conceptual morass; An atomistic set of



axioms for Western residence; Atomism, neoindividualism and household economics; Residence, no 'principle of social organization'; Atomism applied: some paradigmatic cases; An atomistic view of the Russian multiple family household; An atomistic view of various stem families

The world we have lost: the medieval English householdThe world we have gained: Canada 1971  1986; Abutia: a different residential logic; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study offers a radical and multidisciplinary method of examining household formation and recognizes residence as the critical determinant of all household forming practices.