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![Decentralization in Asia and Latin America]()
Decentralization in Asia and Latin America
Edited by Paul Smoke, Eduardo J. Gómez, George E. Peterson
In addition to taking an atypically comparative perspective, the volume highlights the importance of an historical analysis of decentralization and links this to institutional and public policy outcomes. Placing decentralization in this ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Global Agricultural Policy Reform and Trade
Edited by Joseph Cooper
This timely new book analyzes the possible linkages between agricultural trade liberalization and the environment, and assesses the negative and positive impacts of any possible reforms. The authors begin by providing an extensive empiri... -
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![Macroeconomic Policies for Sustainable Growth]()
Macroeconomic Policies for Sustainable Growth
Mohan Munasinghe, Raul O’Ryan, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta, Carlos de Miguel, Carlos Young, Sebastian Miller, Claudio Ferraz
Macroeconomic policies have come under justifiable scrutiny because of their powerful and pervasive impacts throughout the economy. This book examines the sustainability of growth-oriented macroeconomic strategies, starting from early id...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore]()
Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore
Johnny Sung
Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore explores the transformation of Singapore in the last three decades, going beyond the conventional explanations. The book argues that there was more to the transformation than a simple ‘right p...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Law and Economic Development
Edited by Hans-Bernd Schäfer, Angara V. Raja
This authoritative collection demonstrates the increasing application of the law and economics methodology to the problems of developing countries. At the foundation of this application is the institutional approach to economic developme... -
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The Economics of Experiences, the Arts and Entertainment
Åke E. Andersson, David E. Andersson
The Economics of Experiences, the Arts and Entertainment serves as a welcome and unique introduction to various economic aspects of the production and consumption of art and entertainment products. The book begins with analyses and discu...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Agricultural Commodity Markets and Trade
Edited by Alexander Sarris, David Hallam
The book argues that the viability of many observed market and non-market interventions in various countries in agricultural products depends considerably on the underlying behaviour of the relevant commodity markets. Many of these polic...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Creation and Destruction of Social Capital]()
The Creation and Destruction of Social Capital
Gunnar L.H Svendsen, Gert T. Svendsen
This book will contribute substantially to academic and popular debates on social capital and will be an invaluable source of reference for all social scientists. It will particularly appeal to students and scholars of public policy, eco...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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![The Past and Future of America’s Economy]()
The Past and Future of America’s Economy
Robert D. Atkinson
Robert Atkinson examines this process of change over the past 150 years and explores the responses of people and institutions. The book then analyzes today’s New Economy, including the new information technology system, and effects on ma...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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Working Mothers in Europe
Edited by Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn, Anja Weckwert
Working Mothers in Europe combines comparative perspectives on social policies with analyses of mothers’ practices as evidenced in macro data and as explored in country based case studies. Social policy research has emphasised the impact...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Regions, Land Consumption and Sustainable Growth]()
Regions, Land Consumption and Sustainable Growth
Edited by Oedzge Atzema, Piet Rietveld, Daniel Shefer
This book provides an in-depth investigation of the role of the private and public sectors in land markets and regional economics, and explores the reasons behind government intervention in the interests of sustainable growth.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Software Industry in Emerging Markets]()
The Software Industry in Emerging Markets
Edited by Simon Commander
This book aims to promote an understanding of the origins and dynamics of the software industry in a number of key emerging markets – Brazil, China, India and Israel, and to establish what experiences, if any, are potentially replicable ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
