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Book Synopsis A World Without a Safety Net by : W. Croft Frederick W. Croft
Download or read book A World Without a Safety Net written by W. Croft Frederick W. Croft and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As global competition heats up and drives the economy, it touches many businesses and industries. A World without a Safety Net is a hands-on guide to the tough new world of business performance. Author Frederick W. Croft, an expert who has built value for private equity buyers and major corporations, provides options for managing more effectively in a global world. He examines global competition what companies are doing and how they are doing it. As managers cope with the permanent changes in management performance resulting from the economic crisis; the failure of the financial engineering approaches that drove share value in the past two decades; and the end of cheap capital, they must build value or they'll fail. Croft, a restructuring expert, shows managers how to create value through three essential disciplines: managing information, managing execution, and managing decision-making. With straight talk, specific tools, real-world practices and the experiences of U.S. and multinational companies, A World without a Safety Net equips managers to work more effectively and keep businesses alive and thriving in the unforgiving world of the post-crisis economy.
Download or read book The Safety Net written by David Eagleman and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of the internet has been one of the most significant technological developments in history. In this thought-provoking and ground-breaking work David Eagleman, author of international bestseller Sum, presents six ways in which the net saves us from major existential threats: pandemics, poor information flow, natural disasters, political corruption, resource depletion and economic meltdown.
Book Synopsis The Invisible Safety Net by : Janet Currie
Download or read book The Invisible Safety Net written by Janet Currie and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system, economist Janet Currie argues that the modern social safety net is under attack. Unlike most books about antipoverty programs, Currie trains her focus not on cash welfare, which accounts for a small and shrinking share of federal expenditures on poor families with children, but on the staples of today's American welfare system: Medicaid, Food Stamps, Head Start, WIC, and public housing. These programs, Currie maintains, form an effective, if largely invisible and haphazard safety net, and yet they are the very programs most vulnerable to political attack and misunderstanding. This book highlights both the importance and the fragility of this safety net, arguing that, while not perfect, it is essential to fighting poverty. Currie demonstrates how America's safety net is threatened by growing budget deficits and by an erroneous public belief that antipoverty programs for children do not work and are riddled with fraud. By unearthing new empirical data, Currie makes the case that social programs for families with children are actually remarkably effective. She takes her argument one step further by offering specific reforms--detailed in each chapter--for improving these programs even more. The book concludes with an overview of an integrated safety net that would fight poverty more effectively and prevent children from slipping through holes in the net. (For example, Currie recommends the implementation of a benefit "debit card" that would provide benefits with less administrative burden on the recipient.) A complement to books such as Barbara Ehrenreich's bestselling Nickel and Dimed, which document the personal struggles of the working poor, The Invisible Safety Net provides a big-picture look at the kind of programs and solutions that would help ease those struggles. Comprehensive and authoritative, it will prompt a major reexamination of the current thinking on improving the lives of needy Americans.
Download or read book Safety Net written by James K. Glassman and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you construct a financial investment strategy to protect yourself … yet still get the growth to ensure a solid financial future and comfortable retirement during these turbulent times? By building an investing safety net that gives you the gains needed for growth – though more modest than those of past years – but protection against the downside. So when turbulence strikes again – and it will – you won’t re-live the financial nightmares of recent years when portfolios and 401Ks were devastated. Jim Glassman provides the specifics you need for shrewd asset allocation, specifically: Reduce stock ownership. For those stocks you do own, ensure they meet one of these criteria: pay dividends; are low-priced and from industries of the future; or companies based in aspiring nations such as India, Brazil and China. Make a substantial investment in bonds, especially US Treasury TIPS bonds and corporate bonds Hedge against decline by owning a bear fund that shorts the US economy. Own funds based on other currencies, thus protecting yourself against the potential declining value of the US dollar. And consider derivatives. Yes, derivatives! Specific stock, bond and fund recommendations and ample portfolios then provide the starter ideas for properly balancing a portfolio. And the 5 principles and 18 specific rules of “the new rule book” help keep “animal spirits” in check when fads and news flashes provide the temptation to make rash investing decisions that will be quickly regretted.
Book Synopsis Through the Safety Net by : Charles Baxter
Download or read book Through the Safety Net written by Charles Baxter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-09-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary master of short fiction dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories.
Download or read book Safety Net written by Daniel Mulino and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economist and Labor MP Daniel Mulino explains how the Australian welfare state was created - and what we need to do to protect and extend it The welfare state is one of the crowning achievements of the twentieth century, giving citizens access to healthcare, pensions, disability and unemployment benefits. This unprecedented expansion of the state was a product of the postwar period of the late 1940s, when governments ramped up investment in this grand safety net. By the 1970s, half of all government spending went towards social-welfare programs, but today the welfare state stands at a crossroads, beset by both political opposition and funding pressures as the population ages. Australian Labor Party MP Daniel Mulino provides a sweeping account of the history of welfare in Australia and abroad, from Bismarckian Germany to present-day Canberra. In this deeply researched and lucid account, Mulino looks to the challenges facing today's welfare state and reflects on what steps must be taken to protect and extend it. 'Knowledge and thoughtful analysis applied to crucial policy questions. Reassuring and inspiring after the federal election.' -Ross Garnaut 'A timely and comprehensive review of the history and future of the welfare state, and whether Australia's safety net is fit-for-purpose for the risks and challenges ahead' -Peter Dawkins, former vice-chancellor of Victoria University and former director of the Melbourne Institute 'A deep reflection on the contemporary management of social risk in democratic systems. This thoughtful and challenging book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the task of ensuring our social safety net is sustainable and adapted to the modern era.' -Emma Dawson, executive director of Per Capita 'Daniel Mulino chronicles in impressive, readable detail the global progress that societies have made in developing shock-absorbing social policies, and proposes further development in the footsteps of Australia's greatest social and economic reformers.' -Peter Harris, former chairman of the Australian Productivity Commission 'Social policies need to be shaped by policymakers as well as by scholars versed in economics and history. MP Daniel Mulino applies all these skills in fashioning this monumental work. It's all there: a complete set of practical experience-based recommendations for every kind of social insurance." -Professor Peter H. Lindert, University of California - Davis and author of Making Social Spending Work
Book Synopsis The Universal Social Safety-Net and the Attack on World Poverty by : Anthony Clunies-Ross
Download or read book The Universal Social Safety-Net and the Attack on World Poverty written by Anthony Clunies-Ross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap. This must be done country by country, on the initiative of each country’s government: with the maximum involvement of its own civil society, and with the rich world also making a contribution. To add momentum, the international community needs to adopt targets far more specific than the fifty percent extreme ‘poverty reduction’ of the first Millennium Development Goal.
Book Synopsis Public Works as a Safety Net by : Kalanidhi Subbarao
Download or read book Public Works as a Safety Net written by Kalanidhi Subbarao and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of the conceptual underpinnings and operational elements of public works programs around the world., drawing from a rich evidence base and analyzing previously unassimilated data, to fill a gap in knowledge related to public works programs, now so popular.
Book Synopsis The Safety Net by : Andrea Camilleri
Download or read book The Safety Net written by Andrea Camilleri and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on the coast of Sicily, The Safety Net is the twenty-fifth novel in the bestselling Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri. ***Adapted for BBC4's Inspector Montalbano series*** Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigàta at that time. Meanwhile, Montalbano is grappling with a double mystery, one that emerges from the past and another that leads him into the future . . . Engineer Ernesto Sabatello, rummaging in the attic of his house, finds some films shot by his father between 1958 and 1963, always on the same day, 27th March, and always the same shot: the outside wall of a country house. Montalbano hears the story and, intrigued, begins to investigate its meaning. Meanwhile, a middle school is threatened by a group of armed men, and a closer look at the case finds Montalbano looking into the students themselves and delving into the world of social media.
Book Synopsis Holes in the Safety Net by : Ezra Rosser
Download or read book Holes in the Safety Net written by Ezra Rosser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the role played by federalism in anti-poverty policy and in poverty law.
Book Synopsis A Safety Net That Works by : Robert Doar
Download or read book A Safety Net That Works written by Robert Doar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an edited volume reviewing the major means-tested social programs in the United States. Each author addresses a major program or area, reviewing each area’s successes and recommending how to address shortcomings through policy change. In general, our means-tested programs do many things well, but some adjustments to each could make the system much more effective. This book provides policymakers with a broad overview of the issues at hand in each program and how to address them.
Book Synopsis Family Policy and the American Safety Net by : Janet Zollinger Giele
Download or read book Family Policy and the American Safety Net written by Janet Zollinger Giele and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family Policy and the American Safety Net shows how families adapt to economic and demographic change. Government programs provide a safety net against the new risks of modern life. Family policy includes any public program that helps families perform their four universal obligations of caregiving, income provision, shelter, and transmission of citizenship. In America, this means that child care, health care, Social Security, unemployment insurance, housing, the quality of neighborhood schools, and anti-discrimination and immigration measures are all key elements of a de facto family policy. Yet many students and citizens are unaware of the history and importance of these programs. This book argues that family policy is as important as economic and defense policy to the future of the nation, a message that is relevant to students in the social sciences, social policy, and social work as well as to the public at large. .
Book Synopsis Cultural Discernment: Developing the Discipline of Cultural Engagment by :
Download or read book Cultural Discernment: Developing the Discipline of Cultural Engagment written by and published by Jess Bousa. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Through the Safety Net by : Charles Baxter
Download or read book Through the Safety Net written by Charles Baxter and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1998-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace. A drunken graduate student hurtles cheerfully through a snowstorm to rescue a fiancee who no longer wants him. A hospital maintenance worker makes a perverse bid for his place in the sunlight of celebrity. A man and a woman who have lost their only child cling fiercely to the one thing they have left of her--their grief. Lit by the quiet lightning of Baxter's prose, Through the Safety Net is filled with rare artistry and feeling.
Download or read book Sisters written by Carol Saline and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2004-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1 million copies sold, Sisters changed the face of photo-essay books and spoke volumes to every person blessed with a female sibling. Now the updated and revised edition of highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller, a moving portrayal of the profound relationship between sisters, is available in a charming Miniature Edition™.
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Book Synopsis Managing climate risks through social protection by : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Download or read book Managing climate risks through social protection written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FAO recognizes that those living in rural areas whose livelihoods depend heavily on natural resources, are disproportionately affected by climate risks because of their great likelihood of living in high-risk geographical locations as well as their high vulnerability to, and limited capacity to cope with, climate hazards due to low incomes, lack of savings, weaker social networks, low asset bases and heavy reliance on agriculture and natural resources. Protecting poor and vulnerable small scale producers from the negative impacts of climate risks is an imperative in order to reach FAO’s strategic objectives and achieve Sustainable development goal one and two. Managing Climate risks through social protection sheds light on social protection as an effective investment to safeguard the livelihood of small scale producers and strengthen their essential role in ensuring food security across the globe.
Download or read book The Safety Net written by Heinrich Böll and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the center of a terrorized society buttressed by oppressive police protection and surveillance is the Tolm family, Fritz, the father, the elected head of the Association, and the children, part of the counter-culture.
