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The Elgar Companion to the World Bank
Edited by Antje Vetterlein, Tobias Schmidtke
The Elgar Companion to The World Bank provides a comprehensive review of the past 80 years for this powerful development institution. Using different theoretical approaches from an expert group of scholars as well as practitioners, it pr... -
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Handbook on Energy and Economic Growth
Edited by Mohamed Arouri, Mathieu Gomes
This comprehensive Handbook examines the links between energy, the economy, and the environment. Esteemed international experts explore the ways in which energy contributes to economic growth, particularly in the context of geopolitical ... -
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Protecting Nature with Buddha’s Wisdom
S. N. Seo
Illustrating an insightful contrast between modern scientific and economic approaches, and the Buddhist viewpoint, this book examines key environmental issues such as species protection, pollution, natural resource use and global climate... -
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Public Policy in the Arab World
Edited by Anis B. Brik
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Public Policy in the Arab World dissects the layered social, economic, and governance issues... -
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Handbook of African Economic Development
Edited by Pádraig Carmody, James T. Murphy
The Handbook of African Economic Development explores the diverse nature of economic advancement in Africa, spanning from pre-colonial times to the present day. Expansive in scope, it offers both orthodox and heterodox perspectives on th... -
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Handbook on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
Edited by Guido Sonnemann, Sonia Valdivia
This Handbook presents the state-of-the-art of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) practice and provides guidance for its implementation and outlook for future work. Spotlighting sustainability analysts, managers and overall deci... -
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Economic Growth and Poverty
Edited by Nanak Kakwani, Hyun H. Son
This single-volume compilation offers an insight to some of the most important questions economists and policymakers have been grappling over. A substantial amount of research has been carried out using cross-country regression models, r... -
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Advanced Introduction to National Innovation Systems
Cristina Chaminade, Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Shagufta Haneef
Since its emergence in the 1980s the national innovation system (NIS) concept has become widely used by scholars and policymakers alike. In the course of its rapid diffusion it has provoked controversy on fundamental issues. Where did NI...eBook:Find out more$25.96
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Advanced Introduction to Cost–Benefit Analysis
Robert J. Brent
This concise yet comprehensive introduction aims to outline the core principles of Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA), laying them out in an accessible manner with minimum technical detail. The applied nature of the subject is emphasized by sho...eBook:Find out more$27.16
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The Economics of Food Security
Edited by Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha
Professor Jha and Professor Gaiha address important issues of food security in their wide-ranging selection of the most influential published contributions in this area of study. Their comprehensive, original introduction discusses each ... -
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Corruption and Economic Development
Edited by Jayasri Dutta, Toke S. Aidt
Corruption is an almost universal and persistent feature of the modern state. Commentators primarily view corruption as a major obstacle to development, whereas dissenting voices claim that corruption has the power to facilitate trade th... -
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National Accounting and Economic Growth
Edited by John M. Hartwick
This collection of classic articles and book chapters departs from Solow’s 1957 seminal paper on the measurement of technical change. It studies the idea behind the comprehensive development of total factor productivity and the index num...