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Is breast really best? Breastfeeding is widely assumed to be the healthiest choice, yet growing evidence suggests that its benefits…
have been greatly exaggerated. New moms are pressured by doctors, health officials, and friends to avoid the bottle at all costs--often at the expense of their jobs, their pocketbooks, and their well-being. In Lactivism, political scientist Courtney Jung offers the most deeply researched and far-reaching critique of breastfeeding advocacy to date. Drawing on her own experience as a devoted mother who breastfed her two children and her expertise as a social scientist, Jung investigates the benefits of breastfeeding and asks why so many people across the political spectrum are passionately invested in promoting it, even as its health benefits have been persuasively challenged. What emerges is an eye-opening story about class and race in America, the big business of breastfeeding, and the fraught politics of contemporary motherhood.Economic Normalization With Cuba: A Roadmap For Us Policymakers
By Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Barbara Kotschwar. 1992
Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 1992, was the Maurice Creenberg…
Chair and Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations [1996-98), the Marcus Wallenberg Professor of International Finance Diplomacy at Georgetown University (1985-92), senior fellow at the Institute (1981-85), deputy director of the International Law Institute at Georgetown University 0979-81), deputy assistant secretary for international trade and investment policy of the US Treasury (1977-79), and director of the international tax staff at the Treasury (1974-76). Among his numerous coauthored books are Local Content Requirements: A Global Problem (2013), The United States Should Establish Permanent Normal Trade Relations with Russia (2012), Figuring Out the Doha Round [2010], and Economic Sanctions Reconsidered, 3rd edition (2007). Book jacket.Priorités dans la négociation de l'adhésion de la Roumanie à l'Union européenne par le Prof. ec. Dr Perju Genoveva-Elena intégration…
européenne La compétitivité des exportations roumaines s'est améliorée à la fois du fait de la restructuration de l'économie et de la dévaluation de la monnaie. L'exemple de la production industrielle est illustratif. La production de l'industrie manufacturière a diminué de 8% en 1999 par rapport à 1998, sa part dans les exportations est passée de 30,7% à 35,1% et le taux de croissance des exportations a été de 5,9%. Le principal effet a été une réduction du déficit de la balance courante. En général, le déficit du compte courant a fluctué, représentant en moyenne 5,2% du PIB. Le déficit budgétaire était difficile à contrôler mais a été atteint en appliquant les rigueurs de l'Union européenne. On peut également parler de performance en termes de niveau de dette extérieure par rapport au niveau de dette extérieure de l'Union qui est à un niveau plus élevé que les autres pays candidats. Le marché du travail a été affecté par des déséquilibres tant dans le rapport entre la population active et inactive que dans le taux d'emploi. La population employée dans l'agriculture possède environ 40% de la population employée totale. En outre, une grande partie de la population était touchée par la pauvreté (environ 33,8%), en particulier la population rurale (40,5%). Dans un tel cadre interne et international marqué par des interdépendances qui se répercutent en interne dans l'Union ou les pays candidats, résolvant des situations divergentes ou supprimant les obstacles à la prise d'obligations et une volonté politique stimulante, la qualité et l'expérience du négociateur peuvent être considérées comme déterminantes pour la poursuite de la coopération.Cultural Heritage and International Law: Objects, Means and Ends of International Protection
By Stefan Oeter, Evelyne Lagrange, Robert Uerpmann. 2018
This book explores the objects means and ends of international cultural heritage protection It starts from a broad…
conception of cultural heritage that encompasses both tangible property such as museum objects or buildings and intangible heritage such as languages and traditions Cultural heritage thus defined is protected by various legal regimes including the law of armed conflicts UNESCO Conventions and international criminal law With a view to strengthening international protection the authors analyze existing regimes and elaborate innovative concepts such as blue helmets of culture and safe havens for endangered cultural heritage Finally the ends of international protection come to the fore and the authors address possible conflicts between protecting cultural diversity and wishes to strengthen cultural identityA Future for Economics: More Encompassing, More Institutional, More Practical
By John Chant, Don McFetridge, Ehsan Choudhri, Steven Langdon, Gilles Paquet, Harvey Lithwick, Georg Rich. 2016
Economics is a discipline fundamentally concerned with effective coordination. In that way, its main concerns are very close to those…
of governance. Economics, like governance, has evolved considerably over the last half century. This book is a very modest attempt at gauging the relative importance of this tsunami and the way in which it might indicate what will be its future. A Future for Economics proposes the reflections on this general theme by eight senior members of the economics profession who have all taught at some time in the Department of Economics at Carleton University in Ottawa a department that has always been known for its intellectual temerity and for its interest in extending the scope of economics beyond its traditional boundaries. The Carleton sample of economists who share their views here have practiced in different sub-fields of economics, and have chosen to articulate their views and experiences in very different ways. But their collective experience reflects a broad exposure to the ways in which the discipline has evolved both in academic circles and in the various organizations and institutions where they have practiced their profession in Canada and abroad.