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Chinese Economic Development and the Environment
Shunsuke Managi, Shinji Kaneko
Over the past two decades, China has become an economic powerhouse. However, as the world’s largest producer of CO2 emissions, the scale and seriousness of China’s environmental problems are clearly evident. This pioneering book provides...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Explaining Civil War
Syed Mansoob Murshed
This book explores the pre-conditions for conflict in terms of growth failure and critically appraises the greed and grievance theories common to conflict literature. It is argued that various institutional mechanisms of restraint that c...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Purchasing Power Parities of Currencies
Edited by D. S.P. Rao
This up-to-date book demonstrates how the purchasing power parities (PPPs) of currencies are being increasingly used in place of exchange rates for a variety of purposes. These include: comparisons of real income, measurements of global ... -
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Globalisation, Development and Transition
Brian Snowdon
This unique book provides a comprehensive survey of the major economic issues that have helped shape the modern world. It includes discussions of the latest research findings in the international economic development literature and scrut... -
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Trade Liberalisation and The Poverty of Nations
A. P. Thirlwall, Penélope Pacheco-López
This book argues that orthodox theory is based on many unreal assumptions, and that there are sound economic arguments for selective protection of industrial activities in the early stages of economic development. The historical evidence...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Edited by Thorsten Beck
This essential collection contains the most influential articles written over the past two decades that help us to understand the role of entrepreneurs in the development process, both theoretically and empirically. These important paper... -
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Sectoral Systems of Innovation and Production in Developing Countries
Edited by Franco Malerba, Sunil Mani
This book examines in detail the features and dynamics of sectoral systems of innovation and production in developing countries. Processes of rapid growth are usually associated with specific sectors such as automobiles, electronics or ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Inequality and Economic Development: The Modern Perspective
Edited by Oded Galor
In this innovative collection, Oded Galor brings together some of the most influential contributions to the modern literature on income distribution and economic growth. Initially the essential volume analyses the importance of inequalit... -
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The WTO and Accession Countries
Edited by Carlos A. Primo Braga, Oliver Cattaneo
In this essential two-volume collection, the editors include key papers on the domestic and global challenges of WTO accession. The first volume explores the intertwined economic, legal, and political dimensions of the process. The secon... -
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A Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia
Edited by Andrew T.H. Tan
This timely and significant book seeks to explain the deep-seated complexities of terrorism and insurgency in Southeast Asia. In the aftermath of 9/11, this region has been designated by the United States to be the ‘second front’ in the ...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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Integration and Globalization
Edited by Helena Marques, Elias Soukiazis, Pedro Cerqueira
The main challenges the European Single Market is facing in the 21st century result from the enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe, the EMU, and the globalization of trade and investment that has aided the rise of competitive emergin... -
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Rule of Law Reform and Development
Michael J. Trebilcock, Ronald J. Daniels
This important book addresses a number of key issues regarding the relationship between the rule of law and development. It presents a deep and insightful inquiry into the current orthodoxy that the rule of law is the panacea for the wor...eBook:Find out more$62.36