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Changing Big Business
Anna Hutchens
Drawing on candid accounts from practitioners, producers and industry representatives, this informative and proactive volume investigates the challenges facing today’s fair trade movement and provides unique insights into the workings of...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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Innovation and Economic Development
Edited by Mario Cimoli, André A. Hofman, Nanno Mulder
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are spreading fast across Latin America and the Caribbean. This trend has brought about important economic and social changes, which have largely gone unmeasured until recently. Here, anal...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Contemporary Microenterprise
Edited by Joseph Mark S. Munoz
While there have been numerous books and articles written on the popular topic of ‘microfinance’, few books have been written on the business model behind it: the ‘microenterprise’. Due to its diversity of thought and high quality of cha...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Input Trade and Production Networks in East Asia
Edited by Daisuke Hiratsuka, Yoko Uchida
Intermediate input trade is regarded as an important contributory factor in explaining the increase in world trade in recent years. This timely book presents, for the first time, meticulous empirical analyses of the growth of input trade...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Sustainability of Cultural Diversity
Edited by Maddy Janssens, Myriam Bechtoldt, Arie de Ruijter, Dino Pinelli, Giovanni Prarolo, Vanja M.K. Stenius
This engaging book addresses the question of how diverse communities, whether in a nation, city or organization, can live together and prosper whilst retaining and enjoying their cultural differences. This is a particularly pertinent iss...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Corruption and its Manifestation in the Persian Gulf
Hossein Askari, Scheherazade Sabina Rehman, Noora Arfaa
The authors of this timely book investigate various forms and measures of corruption, examine whether corruption is more acute in Persian Gulf countries than elsewhere, and illustrate the unique forms it takes in oil- and natural gas-ric...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Beyond Inflation Targeting
Edited by Gerald A. Epstein, A. Erinc Yeldan
This book, written by an international team of economists, develops concrete, country specific alternatives to inflation targeting, the dominant policy framework of central bank policy that focuses on keeping inflation in the low single ...eBook:Find out more£35.16
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Towards Effective Place Brand Management
Edited by Gregory Ashworth, Mihalis Kavaratzis
Many facets of place branding, such as identities, image, promotion or sense of place, have been around for a long time. However, the need to analyse their nature in the context of branding and to examine their relationships in detail ha...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Globalization and Development in the Mekong Economies
Edited by Suiwah Leung, Ben Bingham, Matt Davies
Since the late 1980s, Vietnam, Cambodia, PDR Lao, and Myanmar have been opening their economies to international trade and investment. With the exception of Myanmar, the reforms have yielded impressive results, but the process is far fro...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Migration and International Trade
Roger White
This unique book synthesizes and extends the immigrant–trade literature and provides comprehensive coverage of this timely and important topic. In that vein, the author contributes to the understanding of the relationship between immigra...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Systemic Vulnerability and Sustainable Economic Growth
Bryan K. Ritchie
For many developing countries, economic growth is an elusive quest. Both economists and policymakers have long known that issues such as education, investment and infrastructure are necessary ingredients for development and yet only a ve...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Rural Transformations and Development – China in Context
Edited by Norman Long, Jingzhong Ye, Yihuan Wang
This unique book explores the varied perspectives on contemporary processes of rural transformation and policy intervention in China. The expert contributors combine a critical review of current theoretical viewpoints and global debate...eBook:Find out more£25.00