Development Economics
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Infrastructure’s Role in Lowering Asia’s Trade Costs
Edited by Douglas H. Brooks, David Hummels
This book analyses and draws policy implications from infrastructure’s central role in lowering Asia’s trade costs.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policy Reform in Latin America
Eduardo Wiesner
Eduardo Wiesner’s book makes an important contribution to the understanding of development by blending together the interdependent issues of (i) macroeconomic performance and volatility, (ii) equity and distributive justice, (iii) fiscal...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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China, India and Beyond
Edited by Natalia Dinello, Shaoguang Wang
China, India and Beyond challenges the widespread belief that China and India will be the driving forces of the global economy in the 21st century. Scholars of these two countries offer scenarios ranging from buoyant to subdued to negati...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Microfinance
Edited by Suresh Sundaresan
This book takes a solid step toward a systematic analysis of the implications of microfinance for the role and regulation of capital markets. The authors address integration of capital markets with microfinance, technological innovations...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Political Economy of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries
Edited by Benjamin Coriat
The book is based on original data and field studies from Brazil, Thailand, India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the issue of universal and free access to treatment (a goal now taken to heart by the international community), it asse...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustainable Development in Western China
Colin G. Brown, Scott A. Waldron, John W. Longworth
This much-needed study provides a unique examination of the intricate web of policies and institutions that now impact on grassland degradation and sustainable development in China’s pastoral region. Understanding this complex matrix and...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Integration in East Asia
Edited by Masahisa Fujita, Satoru Kumagai, Koji Nishikimi
Increasing numbers of free trade and economic partnership agreements have been concluded among many countries in East Asia, and economic integration has progressed rapidly on both a de facto and de jure basis. However, as the authors of ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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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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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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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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