Development Studies
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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...eBook:Find out more£38.36
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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.eBook:Find out more£25.00
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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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Environment and Industry in Developing Countries
Ralph A. Luken, Frank Van Rompaey
Industries located in developing countries have made major improvements in environmental performance since the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. More specifically, their record in reducing energy-use and water-pollutant intensities has been bett...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship
Edited by Léo-Paul Dana, Robert B. Anderson
The comprehensive and thoroughly accessible International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship aims to develop a multidisciplinary theory explaining entrepreneurship as a function of cultural perceptions of opportunity. T...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Gender, Generation and Poverty
Sylvia Chant
In Gender, Generation and Poverty Sylvia Chant challenges the ‘feminisation of poverty’ on the basis of recent fieldwork in The Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica. Interviews with over 220 women and men of different ages at the grassroot...eBook:Find out more£39.16
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![Handbook on the Northeast and Southeast Asian Economies]()
Handbook on the Northeast and Southeast Asian Economies
Edited by Anis Chowdhury, Iyanatul Islam
This original Handbook on the Northeast and Southeast Asian Economies provides a broad overview of economic and social developments in the countries covered (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Lao, Malaysia,...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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The Dynamics of Regional Development
Edited by Arsenio M. Balisacan, Hal Hill
A decade and a half since the Philippines embarked on a major program of decentralization, the authors of this book have undertaken a detailed examination of all aspects of the nation’s regional dynamics and policies. Their analysis exte... -
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Market Development in China
Edited by Belton M. Fleisher, Haizheng Li, Shunfeng Song
Market Development in China presents the analysis of leading specialists on the causes, benefits and problems resulting from China’s transition to a market economy. As the authors illustrate, it is generally recognized that in the last 2...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Regulating Development
Edited by Edmund Amann
Regulating Development examines the impact that regulation – good or bad – can have on the development of poorer societies. It opens with a succinct review of critical issues, including the implications of the spread of intellectual prop...eBook:Find out more£39.16
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The Labour Market and Economic Development of Taiwan
Edited by Joseph S. Lee
An integrated labour market model (a revision of the Harris–Todaro dualistic labour market model) is presented which can be used to analyze labour market operation in other developing countries. The effectiveness of various policies adop...
