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Innovation and Inequality
Edited by Susan Cozzens, Dhanaraj Thakur
Inequality is one of the main features of globalization. Do emerging technologies, as they spread around the world, contribute to more inequality or less? This unique interdisciplinary text examines the relationships between emerging tec...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Economic and Political Aftermath of the Arab Spring
Edited by Carlo Altomonte, Massimiliano Ferrara
The economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have always been characterized by economic volatility and social disparities. The recent ‘Arab Spring’ wave of protests has increased political uncertainty and instability i...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Good Government
Edited by Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein
In all societies, the quality of government institutions is of the utmost importance for the well-being of its citizens. Problems like high infant mortality, lack of access to safe water, unhappiness and poverty are not primarily caused ...eBook:Find out more£34.36
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NGOs, Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution
Daniela Irrera
Daniela Irrera explores the relationship between non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and intergovernmental organisations (IGOs). The author reviews the issue of NGOs’ participation in the decision-making processes of intergovernmental...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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States, Banks and Crisis
Thomas Marois
Thomas Marois’ groundbreaking interpretation of banking and development in Mexico and Turkey builds on a Marxian-inspired framework premised on understanding states and banks as social relationships alongside crisis and labor as vital to...eBook:Find out more£30.36
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Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
Edited by Tania Bubela, E. Richard Gold
This fascinating study describes efforts to define and protect traditional knowledge and the associated issues of access to genetic resources, from the negotiation of the Convention on Biological Diversity to The Declaration on the Right...eBook:Find out more£31.16
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Coordinating Urban and Rural Development in China
Ye Yumin, Richard LeGates
This detailed study offers a succinct yet comprehensive introduction to China’s crucial policy to coordinate urban and rural development. It describes the theoretical, political, and economic reasons why China allowed a large gap between...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Social Protection, Economic Growth and Social Change
Edited by James Midgley, David Piachaud
This highly original and thought-provoking book examines the recent expansion of social protection in China, India, Brazil and South Africa – four countries experiencing rapid economic growth and social change.eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Order from Transfer
Edited by Günter Frankenberg
Constitutional orders and legal regimes are established and changed through the importing and exporting of ideas and ideologies, norms, institutions and arguments. The contributions in this book discuss this assumption and address theore...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society
Edited by Hans Westlund, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Social capital is often considered a key factor for local development. This book analyzes the role of social capital for rural areas’ survival and development in the current age of metropolitan growth – an era in which urban is the norm ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Islands at Risk?
John Connell
This book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary economic, social, political and environmental change in small islands, island states and territories, through every ocean. It focuses on those island realms conventio...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Weak versus Strong Sustainability
Eric Neumayer
This fourth edition of an enduring and popular book has been fully updated and revised, exploring the two opposing paradigms of sustainability in an insightful and accessible way. Eric Neumayer contends that central to the debate on sust...eBook:Find out more£38.36
