Development Studies
-
Add to Wish List
International Migration and Economic Development
Robert E.B. Lucas
This accessible and topical book offers invaluable insights to policy makers in both industrialized and developing countries as well as to scholars and researchers of economics, development, international relations and to specialists in ...eBook:Find out more$62.36
-
Add to Wish List
Competitive Advantage and Competition Policy in Developing Countries
Edited by Paul Cook, Raul Fabella, Cassey Lee
The book discusses competition from different theoretical perspectives and examines the implications these viewpoints have for policy. The contributors assess competitiveness in domestic markets and the impact of foreign competition. The...eBook:Find out more$71.96
-
Add to Wish List
Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Edited by Rolf Wüstenhagen, Jost Hamschmidt, Sanjay Sharma, Mark Starik
In recent years our understanding of corporate sustainability has moved from exploitation to exploration, from corporate environmental management to sustainable entrepreneurship, and from efficiency to innovation. Yet current trends indi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Environmental Protection in China
Edited by Jeff Bennett, Xuehong Wang, Lei Zhang
Faced with intensified environmental degradation and decreased agricultural land productivity, the Chinese government has sought policy interventions to reverse both of these negative trends. Among the policy instruments is the Conversio...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development
Edited by Rinaldo Brau, Alessandro Lanza, Stefano Usai
Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development highlights the opportunities and risks of nature-based tourism for economic development and explores selected strategies for sustainability.eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Decision-Making on Mega-Projects
Edited by Hugo Priemus, Bent Flyvbjerg, Bert van Wee
This book enlarges the understanding of decision-making on mega-projects and suggest recommendations for a more effective, efficient and democratic approach. Authors from different scientific disciplines address various aspects of the de...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Globalization and Poverty
Edited by Paul Collier, Jan W. Gunning
Globalization provokes both excitement and fear. This comprehensive collection, which brings together some of the most important published work on the subject, addresses a core issue of contention: the implications of globalization for p... -
Add to Wish List
Managing Cities in Developing Countries
Meine Pieter van Dijk
Urban management is a relatively new topic, which has gained increasing importance due to a rise in urbanization and a wave of decentralization programs in recent decades. This innovative book is the first systematic treatment of the cri... -
Add to Wish List
Regulation, Markets and Poverty
Edited by Paul Cook, Sarah Mosedale
Regulation, Markets and Poverty incorporates the main policy implications arising from theoretical and empirical research into competition, regulation and regulatory governance in developing countries. This analysis often challenges conv...eBook:Find out more$46.36
-
Add to Wish List
Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Careers
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Heather Hofmeister
Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Careers assesses the effects of globalization on the life courses of women in thirteen countries across Europe and America in the second half of the 20th century.eBook:Find out more$71.96
-
Add to Wish List
Globalization, Uncertainty and Men’s Careers
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Melinda Mills, Fabrizio Bernardi
Globalization, argue the contributors to this book, has remarkably accelerated social and economic change in modern societies. One such change is manifested in the world of work and careers. This book explores whether the forces of globa...eBook:Find out more$80.76
-
Add to Wish List
Regional Trade Agreements in Asia
Edited by Tran Van Hoa, Charles Harvie
Tran Van Hoa and Charles Harvie present this original study of the likely effects of new regional development. The first East Asia Summit in 2005 prompted discussions of enlargement of ASEAN free trade agreements to include all major tra...eBook:Find out more$40.00