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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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Families, States and Labour Markets
Tommy Ferrarini
Tommy Ferrarini uses a macro-comparative, longitudinal and institutional approach to study the origins and the consequences of those institutions affecting family policy in eighteen post-world war welfare democracies. This book argues t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Capital Flight and Capital Controls in Developing Countries]()
Capital Flight and Capital Controls in Developing Countries
Edited by Gerald A. Epstein
Capital flight – the unrecorded export of capital from developing countries – often represents a significant cost for developing countries. It also poses a puzzle for standard economic theory, which would predict that poorer countries be...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Aid, Institutions and Development
Ashok Chakravarti
In spite of massive flows over the past 50 years, aid has failed to have any significant impact on development. Marginalization from the world economy and increases in absolute poverty are causing countries to degenerate into failed, opp...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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Finance and Development
Edited by Christopher J. Green, Colin Kirkpatrick, Victor Murinde
In this valuable new book, a distinguished group of authors takes stock of the existing state of knowledge in the field of finance and the development process. Each chapter offers a comprehensive survey and synthesis of current issues. T...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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The East Asian High-Tech Drive
Edited by Yun-Peng Chu, Hal Hill
East Asia has been an area of high economic growth for several decades. The East Asian High-Tech Drive argues that to maintain the growth momentum, the more advanced East Asian economies need to pay particular attention to policies desig...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Reform in China and India
Joseph C.H. Chai, Kartik Roy
Recent acceleration of the Indian economic growth rate from 6 to 8 per cent has sparked worldwide speculation that India is about to catch up with China and become another Asian miracle economy. Economic Reform in China and India examine...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Vanishing Growth in Latin America
Edited by Andrés Solimano
Economic growth in Latin America and the rise of material welfare has lagged behind that of more dynamic areas of the world economy. In a region prone to policy experiments, the policies of the Washington Consensus applied since the 1990...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Environmental Regulation and Food Safety
Edited by Veena Jha
Environmental, health and sanitary requirements in developed countries are sometimes perceived in developing countries as non-tariff barriers to trade. This book shows that such restrictions are perceived to be more stringent during the ... -
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Information Communication Technology and Economic Development
Edited by Tojo Thatchenkery, Roger R. Stough
Information Communication Technology and Economic Development reveals new insights regarding the complex process of globalization. It shows how the generation and circulation of intellectual capital in the US and India in ICT have led to...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Technological Change and Economic Catch-up
Edited by Grazia D. Santangelo
This book tackles the issue of technological and economic catch-up by examining the role that public research institutions and local policy play in the promotion of this process by fostering local science–technology linkages with incomin...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Knowledge and Innovation for Development
Francisco Sagasti
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the many different issues related to the Sisyphean task of building science and technology capabilities in developing countries. It attempts to answer crucial questions including: how ca...eBook:Find out more$43.16
