Development Studies

Information Technology Policy and the Digital Divide

Edited by Mitsuhiro Kagami, Masatsugu Tsuji, Emanuele Giovannetti

The proliferation of new information technologies throughout the world has raised some important questions for policymakers as to how developing countries can benefit from their diffusion. This important volume compares the advantages an...

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Solidarity Between the Sexes and the Generations

Edited by Trudie Knijn, Aafke Komter

This book combines a theoretical and empirical cross-national perspective to examine how societal transformations in European welfare states affect patterns of solidarity between men and women, and across generations.

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Shrimp Farming and Mangrove Loss in Thailand

Edited by Edward B. Barbier, Suthawan Sathirathai

Through in-depth case studies of local communities in four distinct coastal areas in Southern Thailand, the authors are able to assess objectively the underlying economic causes, and consequences, of mangrove deforestation due to the exp...

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Rural Poverty, Risk and Development

Marcel Fafchamps

This book investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development. Building upon the author’s work in the area, it summarises the contributions of recent theoretical and empirical work to our understanding of how risk...

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Towards Sustainable Development in Industry?

Edited by Ralph A. Luken, Paul Hesp

Many developing and transition economies have not yet undertaken the policy integration measures needed to enhance the impact of industry on sustainable development. In this original and insightful book, national experts from Chile, Chin...

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Land Quality, Agricultural Productivity, and Food Security

Edited by Keith Wiebe

The contributors to this book – including soil scientists, geographers, and economists – analyse data on soils, climate, land cover, agricultural inputs and outputs, and a variety of socio-economic factors to provide new insights into th...

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Irregular Migration

Bill Jordan, Franck Düvell

Irregular Migration is an extremely timely and topical book, analysing the fundamental tensions at the core of present attempts to manage the movement of population in today’s world. Recent events around the globe have prompted a reappra...

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Tourism and Development in Tropical Islands

Edited by Stefan Gössling

Tropical islands are fragile, vulnerable environments and yet they are coming under increasing strain due to coastal developments and global environmental change. As a result of their remote location, small size and limited natural resou...

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Restructuring Local Government Finance in Developing Countries

Edited by Roy Bahl, Paul Smoke

Examining cutting-edge issues of international relevance in the ongoing redesign of the South African local government fiscal system, the contributors to this volume analyze the major changes that have taken place since the demise of apa...

Hardback (2003)

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Shadow Prices for Project Appraisal

Elio H. Londero

Capitalizing on the extensive experience of the author in estimating shadow prices, Shadow Prices for Project Appraisal forges a bridge between theory and practice, explaining what shadow (or accounting) prices are, how they are used, an...

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Return Migration in the Asia Pacific

Edited by Robyn Iredale, Fei Guo, Santi Rozario

Globalisation and social transformation theorists have paid significantly less attention to the movement of people than they have to the movement of capital. This book redresses the balance and provides timely insights into recent deve...

Hardback (2003)

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