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Reconciling Trade and the Environment
Veena Jha, Anil Markandya, René Vossenaar
The link between trade and the environment has focused on two broad issues: how changing trade regimes have affected the environment and how stricter environmental regulations have affected trade. The answers are of particular importance... -
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Environmental Economics and Development
Edited by J. B. Opschoor, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
This outstanding new collection surveys the relationship between the environment and development, and highlights some of the tensions that are implicit in the notion of sustainable development. -
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Pathways to Economic Development
Richard Grabowski
This innovative book integrates ideas from sociology, economics and political science to analyse economic development. In doing so, it sheds new light on the process of successful development in East and Southeast Asia and, at the same ... -
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Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
Edited by Andrew K. Dragun, Clem Tisdell
Globalisation of the world economy portends a wide range of benefits to citizens of all countries. However, this ground-breaking book finds that the impacts of trade liberalisation and globalisation appear to have a negative impact on a... -
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Migration, Diasporas and Transnationalism
Edited by Steven Vertovec, Robin Cohen
This authoritative collection brings together the most significant papers by leading scholars in an increasingly important area of study. Social scientists and political analysts are becoming more and more aware of the importance of lon... -
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Economic Growth and Change
Edited by John Adams , Francesco Pigliaru
The pursuit of economic growth is at the top of every nation’s policy agenda at the end of the 20th century. This authoritative and comprehensive book goes beyond the narrowly-based convergence model of economic growth by considering gl...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Migration and Social Cohesion
Edited by Steven Vertovec
There is a common assumption that immigrants contribute significantly to the breakdown of social cohesion. However, researchers and policymakers find that, on the contrary, immigrants contribute much to their adopted societies economica... -
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Migration and Public Policy
Edited by Vaughan Robinson
Migration and Public Policy brings together the most significant papers by leading scholars on both international and internal migration. It investigates the role of governments in encouraging, discouraging or forcing such migration. T... -
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Development Policies in Natural Resource Economies
Edited by Jörg Mayer, Brian Chambers, Ayisha Farooq
This important book examines the factors that influence economic growth and sustainable development in countries with a significant natural resource sector. It addresses the key issue of how to make the primary sector sufficiently produc...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Political Economy of Taiwan’s Development into the 21st Century
Edited by Gustav Ranis, Sheng-Cheng Hu, Yun-Peng Chu
Over the past four decades, Taiwan has achieved remarkable economic growth. In this important book, a distinguished group of contributors employs a comparative perspective to explore the reasons behind and the lessons to be learned from...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Political Economy of Comparative Development into the 21st Century
Edited by Gustav Ranis, Sheng-Cheng Hu, Yun-Peng Chu
This important book uses the most recent advancements in growth theory and case studies to examine the status of economic and political development at the turn of the 20th century. -
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The Economics of Famine
Edited by Jean Drèze
The Economics of Famine presents an important collection of outstanding contributions to the economic analysis of famine. The first part consists of theoretical papers, including Amartya Sen’s classic exposition of the entitlement appro...