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Patterns in Social Entrepreneurship Research
Edited by Jill Kickul, Sophie Bacq
The contributors expertly focus on the individual, organizational and institutional levels of social entrepreneurship. They address the role of personal values and leadership in the conduct of social entrepreneurial initiatives while str...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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China’s Peasants and Workers: Changing Class Identities
Edited by Beatriz Carrillo , David S.G. Goodman
The expert contributors illustrate how the development of the urban economic environment has led to changes in the urban working class, through an exploration of the workplace experiences of rural migrant workers, and of the plight of th...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities
Edited by Zachary D. Kaufman
Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities provides crucial insight into social entrepreneurship from visionaries in the field as well as other experienced practitioners and renowned theorists. While this book focuses on social ent...eBook:Find out more$51.96
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Economic Development in China, India and East Asia
Kartik Roy, Hans Blomqvist, Cal Clark
This is a thorough and comprehensive study – both in terms of country coverage and in-depth analysis – covering the economic development of all the major economies in the Asian continent, namely China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Private Standards and Global Governance
Edited by Axel Marx, Miet Maertens, Johan Swinnen, Jan Wouters
The expert contributors assess the state-of-the-art with regard to private regulation of food, natural resources and labor conditions. They begin with an introduction to, and discussion of, several leading existing private standards, and...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustainable Development Drivers
Edited by Kees Zoeteman
Sustainable development cannot be prescribed – rather, it results from conscious personal choices in government, business and NGOs. This thought-provoking book explores both the origins and future of the global sustainable development mo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Globalization Trends and Regional Development
Edited by Roberta Capello, Tomaz Ponce Dentinho
This timely book investigates the challenges that emerge for local economies when faced with the new globalization trends that characterize today’s world economy.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Competition Policy and Regional Integration in Developing Countries
Edited by Josef Drexl, Mor Bakhoum, Eleanor M. Fox, Michal S. Gal, David J. Gerber
The book provides insights on the regional integration experiences in developing countries, their potential for development and the role of competition law and policy in the process. Moreover, the book emphasizes the development dimensio...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Financial Crisis and Developing Countries
Edited by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Arjan de Haan, Rolph van der Hoeven
The Financial Crisis and Developing Countries discusses and analyses regional and country specific impacts of the financial crisis in emerging markets and developing countries, covering all continents. Using heterodox and mainstream meth...eBook:Find out more$51.16
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Why Poverty Persists
Edited by Bob Baulch
This edited book analyses what traps people in chronic poverty, and what allows them to escape from it, using long-term panel surveys from six Asian and African countries. The distinguishing feature of these studies, which were commissi...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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Women, Gender and Rural Development in China
Edited by Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson
This multidisciplinary book explores gender politics in the discourses and practices of development in rural China. The contributors – scholars in political science, anthropology, gender, development and Chinese studies – examine how dif...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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Market Platforms, Industrial Clusters and Small Business Dynamics
Ding Ke
Specialized markets are a unique product of China’s economic transition. They are marketplaces located in industrial clusters, specializing in the wholesale of local commodities and related goods. Ding Ke reveals that, despite their seem...eBook:Find out more$40.00