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Institutional Case Studies on Necessity Entrepreneurship
Edited by Jeremi Brewer, Stephen W. Gibson
An estimated one billion individuals in both developed and developing nations can be defined as necessity entrepreneurs; individuals who have no other viable option for licit income than to start a small, income generating activity. Howe...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Patents for Development
Nefissa Chakroun
This book investigates whether it is possible to execute the disclosed technologies just by reading the patent application. Nefissa Chakroun argues that while TRIPS Agreement obliges inventors to disclose full and complete disclosure, pa...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady-State Economy
Herman E. Daly
In this important book, Herman E. Daly lays bare the weaknesses of growth economics and explains why, in contrast, a steady-state economy is both necessary and desirable. Through the course of the book, Daly develops the basic concept an...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Governance in Developing Asia
Edited by Anil B. Deolalikar, Shikha Jha, Pilipinas F. Quising
Governance in Developing Asia is one of the first books of its kind to provide an overview of the role that better governance and citizen empowerment can play in improving public service delivery in developing Asia. The World Development...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Strategic Challenges for the Base of the Pyramid
Patrick A.M. Vermeulen, Edgar Hütte
Managers of multinational corporations are now looking towards low-income markets for their potential for generating large profits. Serving such markets and developing products for them requires a fundamentally different approach of doin...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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The Financialization Response to Economic Disequilibria
Edited by Noemi Levy, Etelberto Ortiz
Europe and Latin America’s social and economic stagnation is a direct result of the unresolved phenomena of the financialization crisis that broke out in 2008 in developed countries. Editors Noemi Levy and Etelberto Ortiz analyze the lim...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Fiscal Decentralization and Budget Control
Laura Von Daniels
Fiscal Decentralization and Budget Control explores possible institutional solutions to fiscal instability in countries that have traditionally been caught up in problems of over-expenditure and over-indebtedness. How can governments con...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Migration and Freedom
Brad K. Blitz
Migration and Freedom is a thorough and revealing exploration of the complex relationship between mobility and citizenship in the European area. Drawing upon over 170 interviews, it provides an original account of the opportunities and c...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Innovation Networks and the New Asian Regionalism
Hans-Peter Brunner
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. The rise of Asia, as well as the future of regional cooperation and integration (RCI) the worl... -
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Corruption and Criminal Justice
Tina Søreide
The author addresses the role of criminal justice in anti-corruption by investigating assumptions in the classic law and economics approach and debating the underlying criteria for an efficient criminal justice system. Drawing on real li...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Understanding China''s Urbanization
Li Zhang, Richard LeGates, Min Zhao
China’s urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host o...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Challenging Neoliberalism
Cal Clark, Evelyn A. Clark
Neoliberalism, which advocates free markets without government interference, has become increasingly utilized and controversial over the last three and a half decades. This book presents case studies of Chile and Taiwan, two countries th...eBook:Find out more$40.00