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Understanding the Cost of Welfare

By: Howard Glennerster

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Understanding the Cost of Welfare

By: Howard Glennerster

In the wake of the global financial crash, there is possibly no more pressing question for social policy than what forms of welfare are affordable and how. Clear and accessible, Howard Glennerster's Understanding the Cost of Welfare is unique in offering an authoritative, levelheaded, and nontechnical survey of how economic priorities and pressures affect social policies and what the mechanics of funding services mean in real terms. An updated edition of Glennerster's Understanding the Finance of Welfare, featuring a strengthened comparative dimension in its investigation of these vital services, this book provides more relevant institutional detail than any other text on this topic. Understanding the Cost of Welfare is an important, substantial contribution at a time when neoliberal arguments for reducing the burden of welfare are more dominant than ever before.

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Understanding the Finance of Welfare

What Welfare Costs and how to Pay for it

By: Howard Glennerster

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Understanding the Finance of Welfare

What Welfare Costs and how to Pay for it

By: Howard Glennerster

The second edition of this textbook assesses the ways in which health care, personal social services, education, housing, pensions and social security are funded in the UK. In each case the UK is compared with other countries. The book considers how services are rationed and asks what future there is for the funding of Western welfare states.

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1847421083

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Paying For Welfare

Towards 2000

By: Howard Glennerster

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Paying For Welfare

Towards 2000

By: Howard Glennerster

This is a third edition of a successful textbook that provides a contemporary account of how social services in the UK are paid for. The new edition brings the textbook up-to-date with its fast-moving subject area, explaining the finance of human services - health care, education, housing, social security a nd social care-through a review of the economic literature. It also gives an account of how the cash to pay for the services actually reaches schools, hospitals and social service departments, right from the start of the process, examining how government raises taxes, through to allocation of the funds. Both comprehensive and expertly written, this textbook will continue to feature as key reading for a variety of Social and Policy related courses.

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1317903587

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Paying for Health, Education, and Housing

How Does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings?

By: Howard Glennerster,John Hills,Tony Travers

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Paying for Health, Education, and Housing

How Does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings?

By: Howard Glennerster,John Hills,Tony Travers

This volume reviews the economic theory that underpins thinking about the problem of England relying heavily on central government finance for social services.

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0199240787

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Perceiving in Depth, Volume 2

Stereoscopic Vision

By: Ian P. Howard,Brian J. Rogers

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Perceiving in Depth, Volume 2

Stereoscopic Vision

By: Ian P. Howard,Brian J. Rogers

Volume 2 addresses stereoscopic vision. It starts with the physiology of stereoscopic mechanisms. It then deals with binocular rivalry, binocular summation, and interocular transfer. A review of how images are brought into binocular register is followed by a review of stimulus tokens used to detect disparities. Cyclopean effects, such as cyclopean illusions, cyclopean motion, texture segregation, and binocular direction are reviewed. Factors that influence stereoacuity are discussed. Two chapters describe how stimuli in distinct depth planes produce contrast effects, and affect motion perception and whiteness perception. The Pulfrich stereomotion effect and perception of motion in depth are reviewed. The volume ends with a review of applications of stereoscopy.

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0199764158

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Perceiving in Depth, Volume 2: Stereoscopic Vision

By: Ian P. Howard,Brian J. Rogers

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Perceiving in Depth, Volume 2: Stereoscopic Vision

By: Ian P. Howard,Brian J. Rogers

The three-volume work Perceiving in Depth is a sequel to Binocular Vision and Stereopsis and to Seeing in Depth, both by Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers. This work is much broader in scope than the previous books and includes mechanisms of depth perception by all senses, including aural, electrosensory organs, and the somatosensory system. Volume 1 reviews sensory coding, psychophysical and analytic procedures, and basic visual mechanisms. Volume 2 reviews stereoscopic vision. Volume 3 reviews all mechanisms of depth perception other than stereoscopic vision. The three volumes are extensively illustrated and referenced and provide the most detailed review of all aspects of perceiving the three-dimensional world. Volume 2 addresses stereoscopic vision in cats and primates, including humans. It begins with an account of the physiology of stereoscopic mechanisms. It then deals with binocular rivalry, binocular summation, binocular masking, and the interocular transfer of visual effects, such as the motion aftereffect and visual learning. The geometry of the region in binocular space that creates fused images (the horopter) is discussed in some detail. Objects outside the horopter produce images with binocular disparities that are used for stereoscopic vision. Two chapters provide accounts of mechanisms that bring the images into binocular register and of stimulus tokens that are used to detect binocular disparities. Another chapter discusses cyclopean effects, such as cyclopean illusions, cyclopean motion, and binocular direction that are seen only with binocular vision. Stereoacuity is the smallest depth interval that can be detected. Methods of measuring stereoacuity and factors that influence it are discussed. Two chapters deal with the various types of binocular disparity and the role of each type in stereoscopic vision. Another chapter deals with visual effects, such as figure perception, motion perception, and whiteness perception that are affected by the relative distances of stimuli. The spatiotemporal aspects of stereoscopic vision, including the Pulfrich stereomotion effect are reviewed. The volume ends with an account of techniques used to create stereoscopic displays and of the applications of stereoscopy.

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Oxford University Press

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0199877351

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Binocular Vision and Stereopsis

By: Ian P. Howard,Brian J. Rogers

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Binocular Vision and Stereopsis

By: Ian P. Howard,Brian J. Rogers

This book is a survey of knowledge about binocular vision, with an emphasis on its role in the perception of a three-dimensional world. The primary interest is biological vision. In each chapter, physiological, behavioral, and computational approaches are reviewed in some detail, discussed, and interrelated. The authors describe experiments required to answer specific questions and relates them to new terminologies and current theoretical schemes.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195084764

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Impact Evaluation of Development Interventions

A Practical Guide

By: Howard White,David A. Raitzer

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Impact Evaluation of Development Interventions

A Practical Guide

By: Howard White,David A. Raitzer

Impact evaluation is an empirical approach to estimating the causal effects of interventions, in terms of both magnitude and statistical significance. Expanded use of impact evaluation techniques is critical to rigorously derive knowledge from development operations and for development investments and policies to become more evidence-based and effective. To help backstop more use of impact evaluation approaches, this book introduces core concepts, methods, and considerations for planning, designing, managing, and implementing impact evaluation, supplemented by examples. The topics covered range from impact evaluation purposes to basic principles, specific methodologies, and guidance on field implementation. It has materials for a range of audiences, from those who are interested in understanding evidence on "what works" in development, to those who will contribute to expanding the evidence base as applied researchers.

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Asian Development Bank

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9292610597

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Making Social Policy Work

Essays in Honour of Howard Glennerster

By: John Hills,Julian Le Grand,David Piachaud

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Making Social Policy Work

Essays in Honour of Howard Glennerster

By: John Hills,Julian Le Grand,David Piachaud

The essays in this collection have been specially written in honour of the 70th birthday of Howard Glennerster whose work is concerned not only with the theoretical, historical and political foundations of social policies but, crucially, with how they work in practice.

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1447302745

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The Making of a Welfare Class?

Benefit Receipt in Britain

By: Walker, Robert,Howard, Marilyn

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The Making of a Welfare Class?

Benefit Receipt in Britain

By: Walker, Robert,Howard, Marilyn

The book also provides an account of social and policy developments in Britain in the last third of the 20th century and a synopsis account of the main socio-economic and political developments. A glossary of technical terms is included.

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Understanding the Cost of Welfare

By: Howard Glennerster

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Perceiving in Depth, Volume 3: Other Mechanisms of Depth Perception

By: Ian P. Howard

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Perceiving in Depth, Volume 3: Other Mechanisms of Depth Perception

By: Ian P. Howard

The three-volume work Perceiving in Depth is a sequel to Binocular Vision and Stereopsis and to Seeing in Depth, both by Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers. This work is much broader in scope than the previous books and includes mechanisms of depth perception by all senses, including aural, electrosensory organs, and the somatosensory system. Volume 1 reviews sensory coding, psychophysical and analytic procedures, and basic visual mechanisms. Volume 2 reviews stereoscopic vision. Volume 3 reviews all mechanisms of depth perception other than stereoscopic vision. The three volumes are extensively illustrated and referenced and provide the most detailed review of all aspects of perceiving the three-dimensional world. Volume 3 addresses all depth-perception mechanisms other than stereopsis. The book starts with an account of monocular cues to depth, including accommodation, vergence eye movements, perspective, interposition, shading, and motion parallax. A chapter on constancies in depth perception, such as the ability to perceive the sizes and shapes of objects as they move or rotate in depth, is followed by a chapter on the ways in which depth cues interact. The next chapter reviews sources of information, such as changing disparity, image looming, and vergence eye movements, used in the perception of objects moving in depth. Various pathologies of depth perception, including visual neglect, stereoanomalies, and albanism are reviewed. Visual depth-perception mechanisms through the animal kingdom are described, starting with insects and progressing through crustaceans, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The chapter includes a discussion of how stereoscopic vision may have evolved. The next chapter describes how visual depth perception is used to guide reaching movements of the hand, avoiding obstacles, and walking to a distant object. The next three chapters review non-visual mechanisms of depth perception. Auditory mechanisms include auditory localization, echolocation in bats and marine mammals, and the lateral-line system of fish. Some fish emit electric discharges and then use electric sense organs to detect distortions of the electric field produced by nearby objects. Some beetles and snakes use heat-sensitive sense organs to detect sources of heat. The volume ends with a discussion of mechanisms used by animals to navigate to a distant site. Ants find their way back to the nest by using landmarks and by integrating their walking movements. Several animals navigate by the stars or by polarized sunlight. It seems that animals in several phyla navigate by detecting the Earths magnetic field.

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019987736X

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Extending the Cure

Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance

By: Ramanan Professor Laxminarayan,Anup Professor Malani,David Professor Howard,David L. Professor Smith

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Extending the Cure

Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance

By: Ramanan Professor Laxminarayan,Anup Professor Malani,David Professor Howard,David L. Professor Smith

Our ability to treat common bacterial infections with antibiotics goes back only 65 years. However, the authors of this report make it clear that sustaining a supply of effective and affordable antibiotics cannot be without changes to the incentives facing patients, physicians, hospitals, insurers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. In fact, increasing resistance to these drugs is already exacting a terrible price. Every day in the United States, approximately 172 men, women, and children die from infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals alone. Beyond those deaths, antibiotic resistance is costing billions of dollars through prolonged hospital stays and the need for doctors to resort to ever more costly drugs to use as substitute treatments. Extending the Cure presents the problem of antibiotic resistance as a conflict between individual decision makers and their short-term interest and the interest of society as a whole, in both present and future: The effort that doctors make to please each patient by prescribing a drug when it might not be properly indicated, poor monitoring of discharged patients to ensure that they do not transmit drug-resistant pathogens to other persons, excesses in the marketing of new antibiotics, and the broad overuse of antibiotics all contribute to the development and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The book explores a range of policy options that would encourage patients, health care providers, and managed care organizations to serve as more responsible stewards of existing antibiotics as well as proposals that would give pharmaceutical firms greater incentives to develop new antibiotics and avoid overselling. If the problem continues unaddressed, antibiotic resistance has the potential to derail the health care system and return us to a world where people of all ages routinely die from simple infections. As a basis for future research and a spur to a critically important dialogue, Extending the Cure is a fundamental first step in addressing this public health crisis. The Extending the Cure project is funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its Pioneer Portfolio.

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1136527591

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Wealth in the UK

Distribution, Accumulation, and Policy

By: John Hills,Francesca Bastagli,Frank Cowell,Howard Glennerster,Eleni Karagiannaki,Abigail McKnight

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Wealth in the UK

Distribution, Accumulation, and Policy

By: John Hills,Francesca Bastagli,Frank Cowell,Howard Glennerster,Eleni Karagiannaki,Abigail McKnight

This book examines key issues connected with the distribution of personal wealth in the UK. It studies why wealth is now such an important factor in social differences and public policy. It presents the most recent information on current wealth inequalities and a detailed discussion of trends in the distribution of wealth. It uses newly available data to compare wealth inequalities in the UK with the USA, Canada, and Sweden. It uses longitudinal data, which track the same people over time, to examine trajectories in wealth accumulation over the decade to 2005 and inequalities in inheritances over the same period. It looks at how parental wealth levels and people's asset-holdings early in adulthood affect outcomes later in their lives. The final part looks at the way in which policies towards wealth-holding developed historically, and the contradictory ways in which a wide range of public policies relate to people's wealth levels, including through taxation, means-testing, and the encouragement of saving, and discusses what the key issues for policy towards wealth and wealth inequalities now are. Personal wealth in the UK totalled £5.5 trillion by 2010 (£9-10 trillion if occupational pension rights are included). Inheritance flows are now equivalent to 4 per cent of national income each year. All households in the wealthiest tenth have more than 75 times the wealth of any of those in the bottom tenth. Absolute differences in wealth levels have increased substantially over the last 15 years, so wealth differences represent many more years of income than in the past. This makes them of great importance to life chances. This makes the book highly relevant for public policy, but also for academic and student understanding of a crucial dimension of social difference. As well as bringing together existing information on the area, the book contains considerable new analysis on wealth inequality, inheritance, and their impacts, drawing on work which is at the forefront of recent research.

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0191667412

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Making Social Policy Work

By: Hills, John,Le Grand, Julian,David Piachaud

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Making Social Policy Work

By: Hills, John,Le Grand, Julian,David Piachaud

Social policy is now central to political debate in Britain. What has been achieved by efforts to improve services and reduce poverty? What is needed to deliver more effective and popular services to all and increase social justice? How can we make social policy work? These are some of the questions discussed in this new and wide-ranging collection of essays by a distinguished panel of leading social policy academics. The book covers key issues in contemporary social policy, particularly concentrating on recent changes. It examines the history and goals of social policy as well as its delivery, focusing in turn on the family and the state, schools, higher education, healthcare, social care, communities and housing. Redistribution is also examined, exploring child poverty, pension reform and resources for welfare. The essays in this collection have been specially written to honour the 70th birthday of Howard Glennerster whose pioneering work has been concerned not only with the theoretical, historical and political foundations of social policies but, crucially, with how they work in practice. It is a collection of primary importance for those working in and interested in policy and politics in a wide variety of fields and for students of social policy, public policy and the public sector.

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1861349580

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Understanding the finance of welfare (Second edition)

What welfare costs and how to pay for it

By: Glennerster, Howard

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Understanding the finance of welfare (Second edition)

What welfare costs and how to pay for it

By: Glennerster, Howard

· How are hospitals, schools, GPs and social workers funded? How do the poor pay for their housing? · Is the tax payer prepared to pay adequate pensions to the growing numbers of old people? Will we all have to work longer? · Can western welfare states survive in an increasingly competitive world economy? These are some of the questions that the second edition of this best-selling textbook tries to answer. It begins by reviewing the range of ways in which basic human needs can be met and summarises in an accessible way the economic literature on why markets and even governments can fail in this respect. In a series of chapters Understanding the finance of welfare describes and assesses in detail the ways in which health care, personal social services, education, housing, pensions and social security are funded in the UK. In each case what happens in the UK is compared with the means used in other countries. Since demand always outruns supply, the book considers how these services are rationed and concludes by asking what future there is for the funding of western welfare states. Much has happened to the funding of social policy and the economy since the first edition of this book, especially in pensions and social care. New devolved assemblies have taken responsibility for setting social policy and their funding has become an issue. In response, much of the book has been revised and all the figures and tables have been updated. Understanding the finance of welfare has been designed to fit the needs of social policy student syllabuses where it has become an essential text. It is also important to students of public policy and economics and those training as teachers, medical students and social workers. But it will also be of interest to the general public because there is no more important political topic today than how social services are funded.

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1447319990

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Wealth in the UK

Distribution, Accumulation, and Policy

By: John Hills,Francesca Bastagli,Frank Cowell,Howard Glennerster,Eleni Karagiannaki,Abigail McKnight

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Wealth in the UK

Distribution, Accumulation, and Policy

By: John Hills,Francesca Bastagli,Frank Cowell,Howard Glennerster,Eleni Karagiannaki,Abigail McKnight

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0191667412

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Nursing in Conflict

By: Patricia Owens,Howard Glennerster

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Nursing in Conflict

By: Patricia Owens,Howard Glennerster

... This is a useful book to aid Health Authorities members' and officers' understanding of nursing.' Nursing Times This book is a close study of nurses in management at all levels in one Regional Health Authority in the NHS. It is based on a research study and charts the organisational repercussions of the Griffiths Report and through interviews and meetings the authors describe the process of change. This book has a wide appeal not only among nurses but for NHS General Managers and all involved in the field of social policy and health service management.

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0333512022

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Paying for Health, Education, and Housing

How Does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings?

By: Howard Glennerster,John Hills,Tony Travers

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Paying for Health, Education, and Housing

How Does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings?

By: Howard Glennerster,John Hills,Tony Travers

This volume reviews the economic theory that underpins thinking about the problem of England relying heavily on central government finance for social services.

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0199240787

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Planning for Priority Groups

By: Howard Glennerster,Nancy Korman,Francis Marslen-Wilson

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Planning for Priority Groups

By: Howard Glennerster,Nancy Korman,Francis Marslen-Wilson

Central policies have been ineffective because of central government misunderstanding of the ways in which local authorities work. The findings of a seven-year study of two London boroughs are set within the context of the development of planning in Britain; practical new methods of planning are suggested, and theoretical approaches to the subject discussed.

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