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Regulating Health Foods
Jill E. Hobbs, Stavroula Malla, Eric K. Sogah, May T. Yeung
With ageing populations, rising incomes and a growing recognition of the link between diet and health, consumers are interested in new food products, supplements and ingredients with purported health benefits. The food industry has respo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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International Aid and Private Schools for the Poor
Pauline Dixon
This fascinating volume challenges the widely held belief that the state should supply, finance and regulate schooling in developing countries. Using India as an example, Dr. Pauline Dixon examines the ways in which private, for-profit s...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Environmental Entrepreneurship
Laura E. Huggins
In this innovative book, Laura E. Huggins finds path breaking entrepreneurial solutions to difficult environmental challenges in some of the world’s poorest areas. The approaches entrepreneurs are taking to these challenges involve esta...eBook:Find out more$29.56
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Local Societies and Rural Development
Edited by Shinichi Shigetomi, Ikuko Okamoto
The importance of community-based and participatory approaches to rural development in developing countries has long been emphasized. Rural people, who are economically and politically weak as individuals, can only participate in develop...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Societal Entrepreneurship
Edited by Karin Berglund, Bengt Johannisson, Birgitta Schwartz
Stating the importance of both the local and the broader societal context, the book reports close-up studies from a variety of social ventures. Generic themes include positioning societal entrepreneurship against other images of collecti...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Innovation and Inequality
Edited by Susan Cozzens, Dhanaraj Thakur
Inequality is one of the main features of globalization. Do emerging technologies, as they spread around the world, contribute to more inequality or less? This unique interdisciplinary text examines the relationships between emerging tec...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Adaptation to Climate Change in Asia
Edited by Sushil Vachani, Jawed Usmani
The frequency and scale of damage inflicted by climate-related disasters, including floods, drought, heat waves and hurricanes, has been increasing at an alarming rate. This volume provides a timely and thoughtful discussion of strategie...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Finance in an Age of Austerity
Johnston Birchall
This is a book in search of an alternative to the discredited investor-owned banks that have brought the rich countries into crisis and the world economy into a long period of austerity. It finds customer-owned banks – credit unions, co-...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Economic Growth in an Open Developing Economy
A. P. Thirlwall
This concise yet insightful sequel to the highly acclaimed The Nature of Economic Growth provides a comprehensive critique of both old and new growth theory, highlighting the importance of economic growth for reducing poverty.eBook:Find out more$34.36
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New Capitalism in Turkey
Ayşe Buğra, Osman Savaşkan
New Capitalism in Turkey explores the changing relationship between politics, religion and business through an analysis of the contemporary Turkish business environment.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Necessity Entrepreneurs
Edited by Jeremi Brewer, Stephen W. Gibson
Necessity entrepreneurs, in developing countries, are individuals who start small enterprises out of necessity. While they range from street sellers to educated hopefuls with little access to formal employment, the one thing that unites ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economic and Political Aftermath of the Arab Spring
Edited by Carlo Altomonte, Massimiliano Ferrara
The economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have always been characterized by economic volatility and social disparities. The recent ‘Arab Spring’ wave of protests has increased political uncertainty and instability i...eBook:Find out more$40.00
