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Globalization and Equity
Edited by Natalia Dinello, Lyn Squire
‘In bringing together seven regional studies by economists from the Global Development Network, Natalia Dinello and Lyn Squire provide an insightful perspective on the relationships between globalization and equity. The topic is importan...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Foreign Direct Investment
Edited by Yingqi A. Wei, V. N. Balasubramanyam
This book consists of detailed case studies of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico and Sub-Saharan Africa, providing a critical review of the determinants and impact of FDI on growth and development...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Sustaining Agriculture and the Rural Environment
Edited by Floor Brouwer
Apart from food and raw materials, agriculture can also provide ancillary benefits such as landscapes, biodiversity, cultural heritage and thriving rural communities. This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of strategies for sustain...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Korean Economy
Edited by Charles Harvie, Hyun-Hoon Lee, Junggun Oh
Korea has played, and will increasingly play, an important role in the future development of the South East Asian region, including the expansion of regional economic cooperation and interregional trade. Indeed Korea has been a leading p...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies
Edited by Michele Boldrin, Been-Lon Chen, Ping Wang
Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies argues that only two centuries ago, no society had ever enjoyed sustained growth in living standards. The contributors to this book aim to discover why the world today e...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO
Edited by Giovanni Anania, Mary E.. Bohman, Colin A. Carter, Alex F. McCalla
‘This is an important volume, containing contributions by an outstanding group of authors on some of the central issues of the Doha agenda negotiations. Distinguishing features of the volume include its comprehensive coverage of the issu... -
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Work, Family and Childcare
Joris Ghysels
‘Based on economic theory and empirical evidence of European social reality, Joris Ghysels analyses micro-data using up-to-date econometrics. He thereby produces innovative insights and suggestions for policy change which will be of inte...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Reducing Poverty in Asia
Edited by Christopher M. Edmonds
‘This is a rich collection of papers by distinguished authors. . . this book clearly contributes to the empirical understanding of poverty in Asia, and can spur debate and better understanding in designing poverty reduction strategies in...eBook:Find out more£40.80
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Agriculture in the New Global Economy
William Coleman, Wyn Grant, Tim Josling
‘This survey is rich in detail of the role of new organizations and government ministries, and of attempts to make agriculture more like any other industry. . . this volume should be a strong impetus for complementary analytical and empi...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Electricity Reform in China, India and Russia
Xu Yi-Chong
‘This is an excellent book. The author has taken up three enormous countries, the world’s two most populous and the largest in area, and examined electricity reform in them. Economics is only one of the disciplines used, with appeals als... -
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Trade, the Balance of Payments and Exchange Rate Policy in Developing Countries
A. P. Thirlwall
‘The book is an important addition to the current literature on balance-of-payments and exchange-rate policy in developing countries. It offers a view that is different from the standard approach and forces us to reconsider the conventio... -
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Voluntary Approaches in Climate Policy
Edited by Andrea Baranzini, Philippe Thalmann
‘While in the context of pure environmental economic theory, national policies and cross-country evaluations by several international organizations voluntary agreements have been repeatedly assessed, an in-depth economic evaluation of vo...