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Foreign Direct Investment
Edited by Yingqi A. Wei, V. N. Balasubramanyam
This book consists of detailed case studies of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico and Sub-Saharan Africa, providing a critical review of the determinants and impact of FDI on growth and development...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Foreign Firms, Technological Capabilities and Economic Performance
Rajah Rasiah
This book employs novel techniques to compare technological capabilities and economic performance in seven countries at varying stages of industrial development: Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, South Africa and Uganda. Th...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Sustaining Agriculture and the Rural Environment
Edited by Floor Brouwer
Apart from food and raw materials, agriculture can also provide ancillary benefits such as landscapes, biodiversity, cultural heritage and thriving rural communities. This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of strategies for sustain...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Technological Learning
Gillian M. Marcelle
This book investigates how individual firms in developing countries undertake technological learning and capability building (TCB) efforts and explains why some developing country firms are world-class and others struggle with these impo...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Korean Economy
Edited by Charles Harvie, Hyun-Hoon Lee, Junggun Oh
Korea has played, and will increasingly play, an important role in the future development of the South East Asian region, including the expansion of regional economic cooperation and interregional trade. Indeed Korea has been a leading p...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies
Edited by Michele Boldrin, Been-Lon Chen, Ping Wang
Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies argues that only two centuries ago, no society had ever enjoyed sustained growth in living standards. The contributors to this book aim to discover why the world today e...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO
Edited by Giovanni Anania, Mary E.. Bohman, Colin A. Carter, Alex F. McCalla
Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO provides insights into the effects of the Uruguay Round WTO agreement on agricultural policy and global markets, and considers what is at stake in the Doha Development Agenda Round. -
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Work, Family and Childcare
Joris Ghysels
Work, Family and Childcare studies the joint decisions made by parents regarding the time they allocate to paid employment and childcare. Extensive cross-national data is analysed from three countries that represent the diversity of Euro...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Local Enterprises in the Global Economy
Edited by Hubert Schmitz
This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Lati...eBook:Find out more£44.76
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Reducing Poverty in Asia
Edited by Christopher M. Edmonds
In this book, a group of distinguished authors addresses three broad questions: what broad strategies and macroeconomic policies best support poverty reduction efforts in Asia; what role should targeted antipoverty interventions play, an...eBook:Find out more£44.76
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Agriculture in the New Global Economy
William Coleman, Wyn Grant, Tim Josling
Agriculture in the New Global Economy examines the extent to which the political economy of agriculture and the food chain is being transformed by globalisation.eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Electricity Reform in China, India and Russia
Xu Yi-Chong
Examining the reform and restructuring of the electricity industry in China, India and Russia, this book explores the way that local conditions and institutions shape the commitment, direction and speed of public utility reform in the th...