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Infrastructure and Trade in Asia
Edited by Douglas H. Brooks, Jayant Menon
Analysis of infrastructure’s role in facilitating international trade and consequently regional economic integration is still rudimentary. This original book fills that knowledge gap by exploring relevant concepts, measurement issues, as...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific
Edited by Phillip Lawn, Matthew Clarke
Frequent references are made to the ‘Asian economic miracle’ as a means of describing the wave of GDP growth experienced across the Asia-Pacific region over the past twenty years. Implicit in this description is the assumption that the A...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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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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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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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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
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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...