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Public housing was once an important strand in western housing policies, but is seldom seen as a mainstream policy instrument for the future. In contrast, in many East Asian …

As the financial services industry becomes increasingly international, the more narrowly defined and historically protected national financial markets become less significant. …

Based on the philosophy of Systems Science and the law of evolution theory, the book, by applying the methods of structural functionalism, divides the modern social system into …

The volume collects a selection of papers presented and discussed during the two Meetings held in 1992 of the EURO Working Group on Financial Modelling. In April the works were …

net income. It draws on the experience gained when the social security system in Italy was reformed in the early 1990s, which led to drastic reductions in the number of claims …

"e;Financing Public Universities"e; addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie funding to indicators of performance. The gist of these efforts is to raise …

The book highlights the distinction between “soft corruption” in the nonprofit sector and “hard corruption.” The former includes the misuse of donor funds that do not cross the …

Problems of stochastic optimization and various mathematical aspects of risk are the main themes of this contributed volume. The readers learn about the recent results and …

This edited collection by internationally recognized authors provides essays on police behavior in the categories of police administration, police operations, and combating …

The European economy is still in recession, even though there are some weak indications of stabilization. This book examines important aspects of the crisis in selected countries …