Development Studies

The Elgar Companion to Development Studies

Edited by David Alexander Clark

The Elgar Companion to Development Studies is an innovative and unique reference book that includes original contributions covering development economics as well as development studies broadly defined. This major new Companion brings tog...

Paperback (2007)

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Political Institutions and Development

Edited by Natalia Dinello, Vladimir Popov

Political Institutions and Development challenges the cliché that ‘good institutions’ are essential for sustainable socio-economic development by focusing on the need to adapt potential solutions to local conditions.

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Competing Claims in Work and Family Life

Edited by Tanja van der Lippe, Pascale Peters

Competing claims on time in work and family life have become inherent, unavoidable features of the Western world. As households increasingly juggle competing responsibilities, and as job expectations and parenting standards intensify, ma...

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Supermarkets and Agri-food Supply Chains

Edited by David Burch, Geoffrey Lawrence

This book analyses the gradual shift in the distribution of power in agri-food supply chains, away from the manufacturers of branded food products to the global supermarket chains such as Wal-Mart and Tesco. This transformation has had a...

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The Dynamics of Chinese Regional Development

Jane Golley

This book surveys the competing, or sometimes complementary, roles of the state and the market in shaping China’s pattern of regional development during the Communist era.

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Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy

Edited by Diane Perrons, Colette Fagan, Linda McDowell, Kath Ray, Kevin Ward

Contemporary societies are characterised by new and more flexible working patterns, new family structures and widening social divisions. This book explores how these macro-level changes affect the micro organisation of daily life, with r...

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Environment and Industry in Developing Countries

Ralph A. Luken, Frank Van Rompaey

Industries located in developing countries have made major improvements in environmental performance since the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. More specifically, their record in reducing energy-use and water-pollutant intensities has been bett...

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Regulating Development

Edited by Edmund Amann

Regulating Development examines the impact that regulation – good or bad – can have on the development of poorer societies. It opens with a succinct review of critical issues, including the implications of the spread of intellectual prop...

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The Dynamics of Regional Development

Edited by Arsenio M. Balisacan, Hal Hill

A decade and a half since the Philippines embarked on a major program of decentralization, the authors of this book have undertaken a detailed examination of all aspects of the nation’s regional dynamics and policies. Their analysis exte...

Hardback (August 2007)

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Market Development in China

Edited by Belton M. Fleisher, Haizheng Li, Shunfeng Song

Market Development in China presents the analysis of leading specialists on the causes, benefits and problems resulting from China’s transition to a market economy. As the authors illustrate, it is generally recognized that in the last 2...

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International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship

Edited by Léo-Paul Dana, Robert B. Anderson

The comprehensive and thoroughly accessible International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship aims to develop a multidisciplinary theory explaining entrepreneurship as a function of cultural perceptions of opportunity. T...

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