Development Studies

The Diffusion of E-commerce in Developing Economies

Zeinab Karake, Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi

The authors of this unique volume provide a timely and valuable perspective on how technology and the Internet revolution are changing business and spurring development across the world, especially in emerging countries. Utilizing a fram...

Hardback (2007)

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Decentralization in Asia and Latin America

Edited by Paul Smoke, Eduardo J. Gómez, George E. Peterson

In addition to taking an atypically comparative perspective, the volume highlights the importance of an historical analysis of decentralization and links this to institutional and public policy outcomes. Placing decentralization in this ...

Hardback (January 2007)

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The Economics of Water Management in Southern Africa

Glenn-Marie Lange, Rashid Hassan

This book presents a valuable new tool for water management – water resource accounting – which significantly advances the economic analysis of water. Water resource accounts integrate detailed information about water supply and use with...

Hardback (2007)

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Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China and Taiwan

Gerald A. McBeath, Tse-Kang Leng

China and Taiwan have roughly one-eighth of the world’s known species. Their approaches to biodiversity issues thus have global as well as national repercussions. Gerald McBeath and Tse-Kang Leng explore the ongoing conflicts between eco...

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Global Agricultural Policy Reform and Trade

Edited by Joseph Cooper

This timely new book analyzes the possible linkages between agricultural trade liberalization and the environment, and assesses the negative and positive impacts of any possible reforms. The authors begin by providing an extensive empiri...

Paperback (2006)

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Poverty Strategies in Asia

Edited by John Weiss, Haider A. Khan

It is widely recognized that while high and sustained economic growth is critical for poverty reduction, there are other policy interventions that may also be significant in a ‘growth plus’ approach to poverty reduction. This volume brin...

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Poverty Targeting in Asia

Edited by John Weiss

Following a comprehensive overview by the editor, this book offers a detailed assessment of the results of directly channelling resources to the poor and extensively discusses the experience of five Asian countries – India, Indonesia, th...

Paperback (2006)

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Hardback (2005)

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The New Social Entrepreneurship

Edited by Francesco Perrini

This book aims to define what Social Entrepreneurship (SE) actually is, and what it is not. The author adopts a novel approach to the SE phenomenon, considering it as a dynamic process created and managed by innovative social entrepreneu...

Hardback (October 2006)

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Money, Financial Instability and Stabilization Policy

Edited by L. Randall Wray, Mathew Forstater

Money, Financial Instability and Stabilization Policy consists of original articles by leading Post Keynesians, Kaleckians and other heterodox economists from the developed and developing world. Post Keynesian literature has long been ...

Hardback (October 2006)

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Economic Growth, Transition and Globalization in China

Edited by Yanrui Wu

This book addresses a number of important topics and issues associated with China’s economic transition, growth and global integration. The chapters, by a distinguished group of scholars, provide a timely assessment of recent development...

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Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement

Edited by Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Siew-Ean Khoo

This book examines the role of immigration policy, and of economic and social policies involved in promoting the settlement of immigrants to Australia. It is based on research of two groups of recent immigrants who arrived six years apar...

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