New books in economics
I - Health, Education, and Welfare

• Are you being served? : new tools for measuring service delivery / The World Bank. Ed. by Samia Amin ... -
  Washington, DC : World Bank, 2008. - XXV, 423 S. : graph. Darst.
  Enth. 17 Beitr. - Enth. Index. - Health facility surveys: an introduction -- An introduction to methodologies for measuring service delivery in education -- Administrative data is a study of local inequality and project choice: issues of interpretation and relevance -- What can be learned from project monitoring data? lessons from a nutrition program in Madagascar -- Tracking public money in the health sector in Mozambique: conceptual and practical challenges -- Public expenditure tracking survey in a difficult environment: the case of Chad -- Assessing health and education services in the aftermath of a disaster -- Ukraine school survey: design challenges, poverty linkages, and evaluation opportunities --
  ISBN =978-0-8213-7185-5
  Schlagworte: Öffentliche Dienstleistung / Gesundheitsversorgung / Bildungswesen / Qualitätsmanagement / Entwicklungsländer
  Standort: B 355928
• Cook, Linda J.: Postcommunist welfare states : reform politics in Russia and Eastern Europe / Linda J. Cook. -
  Ithaca, NY [u.a.] : Cornell Univ. Press, 2007. - XIV, 268 S. : graph. Darst.
  Includes bibliographical references and index. - Introduction : welfare states and postcommunist transitions -- Old welfare state structures and reform strategies -- Non-negotiated liberalization : decentralizing Russia's welfare state and moving it off-budget -- Contested liberalization : Russia's politics of polarization and informalization -- Welfare reform in Putin's Russia : negotiating liberalization within the elite -- Comparing postcommunist welfare politics in Poland, Hungary, Kazakhstan, and Belarus -- Conclusion : negotiating welfare in democratic and authoritarian transitions
  ISBN =978-0-8014-4526-2
  Schlagworte: Sozialstaat / Sozialhilfe / Sozialpolitik / Sozialreform / Übergangswirtschaft / Russland
  Standort: B 355787
• Economic inequality and higher education : access, persistence, and success / Russell Sage Foundation. Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Ross Rubenstein, eds. -
  New York, NY, c 2007. - VIII, 213 S. : graph. Darst.
  Enth. 7 Beitr. - Introduction / Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Ross Rubenstein -- Economic inequality in college access, matriculation, and graduation / Robert Haveman and Kathryn Wilson -- Overcoming educational inequality : improving secondary education linkages with broad access postsecondary education / Michael Kirst -- Institutional responses to reduce inequalities in college outcomes : remedial and developmental courses in higher education / Eric P. Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long -- Higher education and inequality : the increasingly important role community colleges play in higher education / Dan Goldhaber and Gretchen Kiefer -- Access to elites : the growth of programs to increase opportunities for low-income students at selective universities / Amanda Pallais and Sarah E. Turner -- The cost of college and implications for income inequality / Amy Ellen Schwartz -- Reducing inequality in higher education : where do we go from here? / Ronald G. Ehrenberg
  ISBN =978-0-87154-320-2
  Schlagworte: Bildungschancen / Einkommensverteilung / Bildung / Hochschule / Bildungspolitik / Studienfinanzierung / USA
  Standort: B 355669
• Hollingsworth, Bruce: Efficiency measurement in health and healthcare / Bruce Hollingsworth and Stuart J. Peacock. -
  London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2008. - XIV, 157 S. : graph. Darst.
  (Routledge international studies in health economics ; 6)
  ISBN 0-415-27137-1=978-0-415-27137-0
  Schlagworte: Gesundheitsversorgung / Wirtschaftliche Effizienz / Messung
  Standort: B 355760
• < strong> Learning on the shop floor : historical perspectives on apprenticeship / ed. by Bert De Munck, Steven L. Kaplan and Hugo Soly. -
  New York, NY [u.a.] : Berghahn Books, 2007. - VIII, 232 S. : graph. Darst.
  (International studies in social history ; 12)
  Includes bibliographical references and index. - Enth. 10 Beitr.
  ISBN =978-1-8454-5341-1
  Schlagworte: Betriebliche Berufsausbildung / Geschichte / Japan / Frankreich / Niederlande / Belgien / Großbritannien / Österreich / Deutschland
  Standort: B 355521
• McLaughlin, Curtis P.: Health policy analysis : an interdisciplinary approach / Curtis P. McLaughlin; Craig D. McLaughlin. -
  Sudbury, Mass. [u.a.] : Jones and Bartlett, c 2008. - XVII, 437 S. : graph. Darst.
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-423) and index
  ISBN 0-7637-4442-5=978-0-7637-4442-7
  Schlagworte: Gesundheitspolitik / USA
  Standort: B 355935
• Milton, Cynthia E.: The many meanings of poverty : colonialism, social compacts, and assistance in eighteenth-century Ecuador / Cynthia E. Milton. -
  Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Univ. Press, 2007. - XXI, 356 S. : Ill., Kt.
  Includes bibliographical references and index. - Literaturverz. S. [325] - 347. - Colonialism, social compacts, and the taxonomy of poverty -- The city of Quito -- Living on the edge : survival strategies of the urban poor -- Defining the "solemn poor" : wordplay and petitions of poverty in colonial Quito, 1678-1782 -- Prostrate before the feet of the king : widows, wdowhood, pensions, and colonial compacts -- Children on the fringe of empire : the limits and uses of juvenile welfare -- Putting the colonial (poor) house in order : the wretched poor and the Bourbon state -- Shifting compacts of the traditional poor : widows as viudas and as pobres -- The broadening and narrowing of the solemn poor : poor Spaniards, the wretched, and collapsing privileges -- The erosion of charity, boundaries, and colonial compacts
  ISBN 0-8047-5178-1=978-0-8047-5178-0
  Schlagworte: Armut / Armutspolitik / Kolonialwirtschaft / Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Ecuador
  Standort: B 356021
• Starke, Peter: Radical welfare state retrenchment : a comparative analysis / Peter Starke. - Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - XIV, 266 S. : graph. Darst.
  (Transformations of the state)
  Includes bibliographical references and index
  ISBN 0-230-00810-0=978-0-230-00810-6
  Schlagworte: Sozialstaat / Sozialpolitik / Öffentliche Sozialausgaben / Vergleich / OECD-Staaten / Neuseeland / Westeuropa
  Standort: B 356283
• Stricker, Frank: Why America lost the war on poverty - and how to win it / Frank Stricker. - Chapel Hill, NC : Univ. of North Carolina Press, c 2007. - XIII, 345 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.
  Includes bibliographical references and index. - The 1950s : limited government, limited affluence -- Planning the war on poverty : fixing the poor or fixing the economy? -- Evaluating the war on poverty : the conservatism of liberalism -- Moynihan, the dissenters, and the racialization of poverty : a liberal turning point that did not turn -- Statistics and theory of unemployment and poverty : lessons from the 60s and the postwar era -- The politics of poverty and welfare in the 70s : from Nixon to Carter -- Too much work ethic : one reason poverty rates stopped falling in the 70s, and the stories that were told about it -- Cutting poverty or cutting welfare : conservatives attack liberalism -- Reagan, Reaganomics, and the American poor, 1980-1992 -- Staying poor in the Clinton boom : welfare reform, the nearby labor force, and the limits of the work ethic -- Bush and beyond : on solving and not solving poverty
  ISBN =978-0-8078-5804-2
  Schlagworte: Armutspolitik / USA
  Standort: B 355936
• Tobacco control policy analysis in China : economics and health / ed. by Teh-Wei Hu. - Singapore : World Scientific, 2007. - XX, 328 S. : graph. Darst.
  (Series on Contemporary China ; 12)
  Enth. 15 Beitr.
  ISBN 981-270607-0=978-981-270607-2
  Schlagworte: Rauchen / Tabakindustrie / Tabaksteuer / Gesundheitspolitik / China
  Standort: B 356354
• Understanding inequality and poverty in China : methods and applications / World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER). Ed. by Guanghua Wan. - Houndmills [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - XXIII, 293 S. : graph. Darst.
  (Studies in development economics and policy)
  Enth. 9 Beitr. - Enth. Index
  ISBN 0-230-53804-5=978-0-230-53804-7
  Schlagworte: Einkommensverteilung / Armut / China
  Standort: B 356032
• Understanding Islamic charities / Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ed. by Jon Alterman and Karin von Hippel. -
  Washington, DC : CSIS Press, c 2007. - XIV, 186 S.
  (Significant issues series ; 29,7)
  Enth. 9 Beitr. - Islamic charities, faith-based organizations, and the international aid system / Jonathan Benthall -- Recognizing the Umma in humanitarianism : the international regulation of Islamic charities / James Shaw-Hamilton -- Aid effectiveness : improving relations with Islamic charities / Karin von Hippel -- Islamic charities after catastrophes : the Kashmir earthquake and the Indian Ocean tsunami / John Ratcliffe -- Saudi charities and support for terror / Jon Alterman -- Islamic charities in Europe / Julianne Smith and Natalia Filipiak -- Hamas : resistance and the transformation of Palestinian society / Haim Malka -- Hezbollah : Islamic charity in Lebanon / Nizar Hamzeh -- Islamic charities in Somalia / Andre LeSage
  ISBN =978-0-89206-513-4
  Schlagworte: Wohlfahrtsorganisation / Islamisch / Internationale Wirtschaftshilfe / Politische Gewalt / Welt / Islamische Staaten
  Standort: B 355950
• Wandel der Wohlfahrtsstaaten in Europa / Klaus Busch (Hrsg.). -
  1. Aufl. - Baden-Baden : Nomos-Verl.-Ges., 2008. - 298 S.
  (Schriften der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung zur europäischen Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik ; 1)
  Enth. 12 Beitr. - Literaturangaben. - Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. engl.
  ISBN 3-8329-3123-6=978-3-8329-3123-0
  Schlagworte: Sozialstaat / Sozialpolitik / EU-Staaten
  Standort: LS-V14-000.058