The global financial crisis has had a seismic impact upon the wealth of nations. But we have little sense of how it affects one of the most fundamental issues of all: our physical and mental health.This highly significant new book, based on the authors' own groundbreaking research, looks at the daily lives of people affected by financial crisis, from the Great Depression of the 1930s, to post-communist Russia, to the US foreclosure crisis of the late 2000s. Why, it asks, did Sweden...

Politicians have talked endlessly about the seismic economic and social impacts of the recent financial crisis, but many continue to ignore its disastrous effects on human health—and have even exacerbated them, by adopting harsh austerity measures and cutting key social programs at a time when constituents need them most. The result, as pioneering public health experts David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu reveal in this provocative audiobook, is that many countries have turned their recessions i...

India Banking and Finance Report 2021 presents a lucid yet rigorous discussion on the key facets of the Banking and Financial sector in India. Written primarily by the faculty of National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM), Pune, the report covers a wide spectrum of issues ranging from contemporary macro-financial perspectives against the backdrop of the ongoing pandemic to leadership concerns in Indian banks. The list of subjects included is topical, comprising corporate governance chall...

Climate change is an intensifying reality of the present, reshaping land systems, ecosystems, and human livelihoods across the globe. Its impacts are most clearly manifested through changes in land cover and land use, degradation of ecosystems, loss of biodiversity, and growing risks to food systems, water security, and rural and urban livelihoods. Changing Climate–Land–Life Interplay: Spatial Approaches for Biodiversity, Agriculture, and Land Resilience in Emerging E...