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The Failure to Protect
Timo Kivimäki
Timo Kivimaki investigates the reasons behind, and consequences of, military operations by Western powers. It focuses on those interventions aimed at protecting civilians from terror, dictators and criminals in fragile states. In doing s...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Poverty and Entrepreneurship in Developed Economies
Michael H. Morris, Susana C. Santos, Xaver Neumeyer
While extensively explored as a solution to poverty at the base of the pyramid, this is the first in-depth examination of entrepreneurship and the poor within advanced economies. The authors explore the underlying nature of poverty and d...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Varieties of Capital Cities
David Kaufmann
The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Industrial Relations in Emerging Economies
Edited by Susan Hayter, Chang-Hee Lee
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. This book examines industrial and employment relations in the emerging economies of Brazil, ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Protecting Minority Rights in African Countries
John M. Mbaku
In this enlightening book, John Mukum Mbaku analyses the main challenges of constitutional design and the construction of governance institutions in Africa today. He argues that the central issues are: providing each country with a const...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Evolution of Social Innovation
Edited by Frances Westley, Katherine McGowan, Ola Tjörnbo
At a time when governments and civil society organizations are putting ever-greater stock in social innovation as a route to transformation, understanding what characterizes social innovation with transformative potential is important. E...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Regulating for Equitable and Job-Rich Growth]()
Regulating for Equitable and Job-Rich Growth
Edited by Colin Fenwick, Valérie Van Goethem
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. This book offers a critical reflection on the operation and effects of labour regulation. It...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Mapping a New World Order
Edited by Vladimir Popov, Piotr Dutkiewicz
This book identifies possible factors responsible for the recent rise of many developing countries. It examines how robust these trends actually are and speculatively predicts the implications and consequences that may result from a cont...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Contextualizing Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies and Developing Countries
Edited by Marcela Ramírez Pasillas, Ethel Brundin, Magdalena Markowska
Entrepreneurship in emerging countries presents us with a unique set of working attitudes, modes of thinking, social practices and processes. This book explores these characteristics, focusing on the conceptualization of entrepreneurship...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Corruption, Natural Resources and Development
Edited by Aled Williams, Philippe Le Billon
This book provides a fresh and extensive discussion of corruption issues in natural resources sectors. Reflecting on recent debates in corruption research and revisiting resource curse challenges in light of political ecology approaches,...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Governance in Developing Asia
Edited by Anil B. Deolalikar, Shikha Jha, Pilipinas F. Quising
Governance in Developing Asia is one of the first books of its kind to provide an overview of the role that better governance and citizen empowerment can play in improving public service delivery in developing Asia. The World Development...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Corruption, Grabbing and Development
Edited by Tina Søreide, Aled Williams
All societies develop their own norms about what is fair behaviour and what is not. Violations of these norms, including acts of corruption, can collectively be described as forms of ‘grabbing’. This unique volume addresses how grabbing ...eBook:Find out more$39.16
