Development Studies

Agriculture in the New Global Economy

William Coleman, Wyn Grant, Tim Josling

Agriculture in the New Global Economy examines the extent to which the political economy of agriculture and the food chain is being transformed by globalisation.

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Local Enterprises in the Global Economy

Edited by Hubert Schmitz

This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Lati...

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Electricity Reform in China, India and Russia

Xu Yi-Chong

Examining the reform and restructuring of the electricity industry in China, India and Russia, this book explores the way that local conditions and institutions shape the commitment, direction and speed of public utility reform in the th...

Hardback (October 2004)

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Valuing the Environment in Developing Countries

Edited by David Pearce, Corin Pearce, Charles Palmer

In this book, the first of two volumes, the authors provide detailed case studies of valuation techniques that have been used in developing countries. They demonstrate that valuation works and that it can yield significant insights into ...

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Hardback (2002)

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Voluntary Approaches in Climate Policy

Edited by Andrea Baranzini, Philippe Thalmann

Voluntary approaches (VAs) are increasingly implemented in different countries as the main instrument in environmental policies. The authors focus on the economics of (VAs), their advantages and disadvantages and how they compare with ot...

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Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics

Edited by Barbara Hobson, Jane Lewis, Birte Siim

An important contribution to the current literature on gender and social politics, this book challenges mainstream thinking on welfare states, citizenship, family, work, and social policy. Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics...

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Hardback (2002)

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Global Human Resource Management

Willy McCourt, Derek Eldridge

This book presents Human Resource Management (HRM) as a tool for improving the performance of organizations in developing and transitional countries. It does this through the presentation of an integrated model of human resource manageme...

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Environmental Regulation in the New Global Economy

Rhys Jenkins, Jonathan Barton, Anthony Bartzokas, Jan Hesselberg, Hege Merete Knutsen

This book attempts to answer these questions using case studies of three pollution-intensive industries: iron and steel, leather tanning, and fertilizers. Based on in-depth interviews with managers and regulators in Western and Eastern E...

Paperback (May 2004)

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Hardback (2002)

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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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