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Interpreting and Implementing the TRIPS Agreement
Edited by Justin Malbon, Charles Lawson
This book considers whether the WTO agreement on ‘Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights’ (TRIPS) will become a vehicle for promoting greater international equity and engagement with the world economy or a tool for wealthy...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya
Robert Pollin, Mwangi wa Githinji, James Heintz
The Kenyan economy has experienced improved economic growth in recent years, and the government has maintained a commitment to generating 500,000 new jobs per year. But the country still faces severe problems of poverty-level employment ... -
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Children, Changing Families and Welfare States
Edited by Jane Lewis
The book explores the implications of changes to the welfare state for children in a range of countries. Children, Changing Families and Welfare States: examines the implications of social policies for children; sets the discussion in ...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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MicroFranchising
Edited by Jason Fairbourne, Stephen W. Gibson, W. Gibb Dyer
This unique book provides an overview of the need to alleviate poverty and what methods have been used in the past to do so (e.g. microcredit). It then introduces the concept of the microfranchise and discusses how this business model ca...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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Policies for Sustainable Governance of Global Ecosystem Services
Edited by Janet Ranganathan, Mohan Munasinghe, Frances Irwin
This book provides a compilation of policy, institutional and governance recommendations from eighteen leading international experts, to respond to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment finding that over the last 50 years humans have degra... -
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Economic Reform in Developing Countries
Edited by José María Fanelli, Lyn Squire
This book offers insights into the process of economic reform in developing countries. It is organized around three factors that are critical to the success of any reform. According to Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, these key dimensions are...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on the South Asian Economies
Edited by Anis Chowdhury, Wahiduddin Mahmud
This Handbook on the South Asian Economies (a companion to the Handbook on the Northeast and Southeast Asian Economies) is a comprehensive and unique collection of original studies on the economic and social development of countries in S...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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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
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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
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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
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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