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Innovation in Developing and Transition Countries
Edited by Alexandra Tsvetkova, Jana Schmutzler, Marcela Suarez, Alessandra Faggian
This edited work offers a multidisciplinary perspective on innovation challenges and innovative practices in the context of developing and transition countries. The contributions mostly embrace a national innovation system approach in an...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A General Theory of Economic Development
Sung-Hee Jwa
This book makes the bold attempt at proposing a new general theory of economic development. The main premise is that economic institutions and policies must embody ‘economic discrimination’ if there is to be any chance of real economic d...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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The Rise to Market Leadership
Edited by Franco Malerba, Sunil Mani, Pamela Adams
In recent years many new international market leaders from the BRICS countries have emerged in several manufacturing and service industries. This important study answers a number of crucial questions including, how did these companies ri...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Industrial Policy in Developing Countries
Tilman Altenburg, Wilfried Lütkenhorst
Against the backdrop of persistently high levels of poverty and inequality, critical environmental boundaries and increasing global economic interdependence, this book addresses the role and impact of industrial policies in developing co...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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Living Wages Around the World
Richard Anker, Martha Anker
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 manual describes a new methodology to measure a decent but basic standard of living in ... -
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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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Transatlantic Food and Agricultural Trade Policy
Timothy E. Josling, Stefan Tangermann
Transatlantic Food and Agricultural Trade Policy traces the past fifty years of transatlantic trade relations in the area of food and agricultural policy, from early skirmishes over chicken exports to ongoing conflicts over biotech foods...eBook:Find out more$42.36
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Innovation Systems for Development
Edited by Bo Göransson, Claes Brundenius, Carlos Aguirre-Bastos
The rise and expansion of organized scientific research has led individuals to become accustomed to an unceasing delivery of new scientific results and technical improvements that resolve even seemingly unsolvable problems. This timely b...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Asian ‘Poverty Miracle’
Edited by Jacques Silber, Guanghua Wan
Following rapid economic growth in recent decades, Asia and the Pacific experienced an impressive reduction in extreme poverty, but this drop was not uniform and achievements are still incomplete. Vulnerability to natural disasters, the ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Catch-up and Technological Leapfrogging
Keun Lee
This book elaborates upon the dynamic changes to Korean firms and the economy from the perspective of catch-up theory. The central premise of the book is that a latecomer’s sustained catch-up is not possible by simply following the path ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Global South after the Crisis
Edited by Hasan Cömert, Rex A. McKenzie
This volume is split into two accessible sections. The first part concentrates on the impact of the crisis on growth, inequality, policy responses and policy shifts in key areas such as central banking. The second part comprises individu...eBook:Find out more$40.00