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Global Exchange and Poverty
Edited by Robert E.B. Lucas, Lyn Squire, T. N. Srinivasan
This book examines how policies implemented by members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) affect development and poverty in developing and transition economies. -
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Entrepreneurial Strategic Decision-Making
Edited by Patrick A.M. Vermeulen, Petru L. Curseu
Strategic choices made by entrepreneurs have major consequences for SME performance. This book explores the factors that influence entrepreneurial strategic decisions using a cognitive theoretical framework.eBook:Find out more$66.36
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Knowledge Diffusion and Innovation
Piergiuseppe Morone, Richard Taylor
Modern economies are described as ‘knowledge based’. This book investigates the meaning of such a statement, assessing the relevance of knowledge and the channels through which knowledge is exchanged, both from a theoretical and an empir...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Urban Poverty in China
Fulong Wu, Chris Webster, Shenijing He, Yuting Liu
Urban poverty is an emerging problem. This book explores the household and neighbourhood factors that lead to both the generation and continuance of urban poverty in China. It is argued that the urban Chinese are not a homogenous social ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Political Economy of Inter-Regional Fiscal Flows
Edited by Núria Bosch, Marta Espasa , Albert Solé Ollé
Struggles over what a region receives, or should receive, from the budget of the central government are common to many countries. Discussions often focus on the measures of ‘net fiscal flows’ or ‘fiscal balances’ provided by the governme...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions
Daphne Zografos
This unique book provides an in-depth analysis of the different methods that have been proposed to protect traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) by using intellectual property rights.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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State and Local Fiscal Policy
Edited by Sally Wallace
In this broad and illuminating work, experts on public finance discuss innovations in state and local tax policy that have been implemented or considered over the course of the last three decades. The authors provide original work that a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Lluís Barbé
Lluís Barbé has recreated the background and life of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth through a fascinating exercise of reconstruction that succeeds in shaping the first detailed biography ever published of this major economist and statistician....eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Managing the Contemporary Multinational
Edited by Ulf Andersson, Ulf Holm
Managing the Contemporary Multinational explores the role of headquarters in different structures of multinational firms and shows how this role is affected by the complexity of contemporary research.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Older Workers in a Globalizing World
Dirk Hofäcker
This timely book investigates the growth of the early retirement trend and its varying spread among different groups of older workers in fourteen modern societies. It argues for a differentiated political approach to reverse early retire...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Food Security in Africa
Edited by Alexander Sarris, Jamie Morrison
Drawing on insights from theoretical applications, empirically based approaches and case study experience, this book contributes to the improved design and use of trade and related policy interventions in staple food markets.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Scarcity, Entitlements and the Economics of Water in Developing Countries
P. B. Anand
P.B. Anand argues that if water supply and sanitation were mainly problems of technology or financial resources, they would have been resolved long ago. While appreciating that technology and finances are important, he ascertains that th...eBook:Find out more$49.56