Development Economics

China, India and Beyond

Edited by Natalia Dinello, Shaoguang Wang

China, India and Beyond challenges the widespread belief that China and India will be the driving forces of the global economy in the 21st century. Scholars of these two countries offer scenarios ranging from buoyant to subdued to negati...

Hardback (March 2009)

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Infrastructure’s Role in Lowering Asia’s Trade Costs

Edited by Douglas H. Brooks, David Hummels

This book analyses and draws policy implications from infrastructure’s central role in lowering Asia’s trade costs.

Hardback (March 2009)

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Microfinance

Edited by Suresh Sundaresan

This book takes a solid step toward a systematic analysis of the implications of microfinance for the role and regulation of capital markets. The authors address integration of capital markets with microfinance, technological innovations...

Hardback (2009)

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The Political Economy of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries

Edited by Benjamin Coriat

The book is based on original data and field studies from Brazil, Thailand, India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the issue of universal and free access to treatment (a goal now taken to heart by the international community), it asse...

Hardback (December 2008)

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Sustainable Development in Western China

Colin G. Brown, Scott A. Waldron, John W. Longworth

This much-needed study provides a unique examination of the intricate web of policies and institutions that now impact on grassland degradation and sustainable development in China’s pastoral region. Understanding this complex matrix and...

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Economic Integration in East Asia

Edited by Masahisa Fujita, Satoru Kumagai, Koji Nishikimi

Increasing numbers of free trade and economic partnership agreements have been concluded among many countries in East Asia, and economic integration has progressed rapidly on both a de facto and de jure basis. However, as the authors of ...

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Infrastructure and Trade in Asia

Edited by Douglas H. Brooks, Jayant Menon

Analysis of infrastructure’s role in facilitating international trade and consequently regional economic integration is still rudimentary. This original book fills that knowledge gap by exploring relevant concepts, measurement issues, as...

Hardback (October 2008)

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Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific

Edited by Phillip Lawn, Matthew Clarke

Frequent references are made to the ‘Asian economic miracle’ as a means of describing the wave of GDP growth experienced across the Asia-Pacific region over the past twenty years. Implicit in this description is the assumption that the A...

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Interpreting and Implementing the TRIPS Agreement

Edited by Justin Malbon, Charles Lawson

This book considers whether the WTO agreement on ‘Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights’ (TRIPS) will become a vehicle for promoting greater international equity and engagement with the world economy or a tool for wealthy...

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An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya

Robert Pollin, Mwangi wa Githinji, James Heintz

The Kenyan economy has experienced improved economic growth in recent years, and the government has maintained a commitment to generating 500,000 new jobs per year. But the country still faces severe problems of poverty-level employment ...

Hardback (August 2008)

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MicroFranchising

Edited by Jason Fairbourne, Stephen W. Gibson, W. Gibb Dyer

This unique book provides an overview of the need to alleviate poverty and what methods have been used in the past to do so (e.g. microcredit). It then introduces the concept of the microfranchise and discusses how this business model ca...

Paperback (July 2008)

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Hardback (July 2007)

List price ~~$153.00~~

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$46.36