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Privatization and Economic Performance in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by Iván Major
This important book provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of privatization on the economic performance of companies in Central and Eastern Europe. It sheds new light on the achievements and shortcomings of the privatization pr... -
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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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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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Vietnam and the East Asian Crisis
Edited by Suiwah Leung
The timeliness of this book is beyond question. Since the crisis erupted in Thailand in mid-1997 and spread, with varying degrees of severity, to the rest of Asia, the export-led industrialization strategy that has driven economic growt... -
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Struggle and Hope
János Kornai
This major new book presents an objective and penetrating economic analysis of stabilization and reform in Eastern Europe, combined with a compassionate plea for individual rights and solidarity. -
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China’s Consumer Revolution
Yanrui Wu
China’s rapid economic growth has attracted much international attention in recent years, partly due to the potential purchasing power of the largest population in the world. This timely book examines general patterns of Chinese househo... -
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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... -
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Sustaining Development
Daniel W. Bromley
Sustaining Development brings together, in one accessible volume, a selection of Daniel W. Bromley’s path-breaking theoretical and empirical papers on economic development and environmental problems in the developing world. -
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Labour Standards and International Competitiveness
André Raynauld, Jean-Pierre Vidal
This innovative book assesses the impact of labour standards on the competitiveness of firms through a comparison of developing and industrialized countries. -
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Growth, Development and Trade
H. W. Singer
This volume contains 21 selected essays by Professor Sir Hans Singer written over the last two decades.