Development Studies

Regional Trade Agreements in Asia

Edited by Tran Van Hoa, Charles Harvie

Tran Van Hoa and Charles Harvie present this original study of the likely effects of new regional development. The first East Asia Summit in 2005 prompted discussions of enlargement of ASEAN free trade agreements to include all major tra...

Hardback (2008)

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Entrepreneurship as Social Change

Edited by Chris Steyaert, Daniel Hjorth

This book – the third in the Movements in Entrepreneurship series – examines entrepreneurship as a societal phenomenon. It provides an in-depth study of the social aspects of entrepreneurship, illustrating how entrepreneurship affects so...

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Hardback (December 2006)

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Governance and Nationbuilding

Kate Jenkins, William Plowden

Governance and Nationbuilding describes how aid donors have attempted to improve the performance of government in developing countries and countries in crisis. Kate Jenkins and William Plowden review the widespread lack of success, traci...

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Hardback (2006)

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Regulatory Governance in Developing Countries

Edited by Martin Minogue, Ledivina Cariño

The past decade has seen a quickening of the pace and extent of privatisation reforms in developing countries. An associated set of post-privatisation policies has seen the introduction of new and changed regulatory institutions. This bo...

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Hardback (2006)

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Sustainable Growth and Economic Development

Reunka Mahadevan

This book provides an insight into some of the efforts and actions taken by the rapidly developing economy of Malaysia towards its ‘Vision 2020’ of becoming a developed country. Renuka Mahadevan explores whether the vision can become rea...

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Technical Progress and Economic Growth

Ranald J. Taylor

Most of the studies conducted to examine the growth performance of many developing economies are based on the traditional neoclassical growth frameworks. This book takes an alternative path. It employs a blend of historical, neoclassical...

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Political Institutions and Development

Edited by Natalia Dinello, Vladimir Popov

Political Institutions and Development challenges the cliché that ‘good institutions’ are essential for sustainable socio-economic development by focusing on the need to adapt potential solutions to local conditions.

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Competing Claims in Work and Family Life

Edited by Tanja van der Lippe, Pascale Peters

Competing claims on time in work and family life have become inherent, unavoidable features of the Western world. As households increasingly juggle competing responsibilities, and as job expectations and parenting standards intensify, ma...

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Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy

Edited by Diane Perrons, Colette Fagan, Linda McDowell, Kath Ray, Kevin Ward

Contemporary societies are characterised by new and more flexible working patterns, new family structures and widening social divisions. This book explores how these macro-level changes affect the micro organisation of daily life, with r...

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Hardback (2006)

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Supermarkets and Agri-food Supply Chains

Edited by David Burch, Geoffrey Lawrence

This book analyses the gradual shift in the distribution of power in agri-food supply chains, away from the manufacturers of branded food products to the global supermarket chains such as Wal-Mart and Tesco. This transformation has had a...

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The Dynamics of Chinese Regional Development

Jane Golley

This book surveys the competing, or sometimes complementary, roles of the state and the market in shaping China’s pattern of regional development during the Communist era.

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