Fragile States

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• Fragile states are often mired in civil conflict. This volume focuses on the relationship between conflict and state stability and illustrates the cau... Lees meer

Development Success

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• What lessons can be learnt from 'developed' countries that might be useful for developing and emerging economies? With an emphasis on long-term growth... Lees meer

The Role of Elites in Economic Development

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• Elites play a crucial role in the development process. The impact they have on growth and development exceeds their representation within a country. T... Lees meer

The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 2

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• This volume presents a set of studies of the role of environmental resources in the development process. Contributors address the problems connected w... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Hunger: Selected Essays

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• The three volumes of the original work have been merged and edited to produce an abridged paperback that will be useful for students. The papers addre... Lees meer

Urbanization and Development

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• This volume presents a significant new collection that focuses on urbanization and its implications for economic development. Written for an advanced ... Lees meer

Southern Engines of Global Growth

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• The volume explores how the Southern Engines, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are reshaping the world economy. It looks at their development ex... Lees meer

Wage Labour and Unfreedom in Agriculture

V. K. (Visiting Fellow at the Center for Population Studies, Vis

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• Focusing on an area in the vanguard of agricultural development in Southern India, this book asks how so much growth and technical change can take pla... Lees meer

Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century

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• This book deals with the importance of industrialization and the development of manufacturing in the economic development process. It focuses specific... Lees meer

The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 1

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• This volume presents a set of studies of the role of environmental resources in the development process. Contributors address the problems connected w... Lees meer

Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America

Guillermo (Deputy Director, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, La, Gary S. (Professor of Economics and the John P. Windmuller Chair, David (PhD student in Economics, Cornell University) Jaume, Mariana (Senior Researcher, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, La

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• This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in Latin America in the 2000s. Lees meer

Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

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• Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. This book analyses how and why governments respond... Lees meer

Governing Globalization

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• The world has changed since the United Nations system and the Bretton Woods institutions were created, and so have its governance needs in terms of in... Lees meer

Social Security in Developing Countries

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• The term 'social security' has a very different meaning in under-developed countries and is best understood as poverty alleviation. This book attempts... Lees meer

Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective

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• This volume looks beyond the distribution of income by examining the assets, debts, and net worth of individuals and households to create a global pic... Lees meer

Governing Globalization

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• This text examines in depth the governance needs of the world economy and polity. It evaluates the experience of institutions to sketch the contours o... Lees meer

Financial Openness and National Autonomy

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• A study of the effect that internationalization and deregulation of financial markets has had on the ability of governments of developing countries to... Lees meer

Group Behaviour and Development

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• This text focuses on group behaviour in developing countries. It includes studies of producer and community organizations, NGOs and some public sector... Lees meer

Commodity Supply Management by Producing Countries

Alfred (Senior Associate, Queen Elizabeth House, Senior Associat, Robert (Fellow in Economics, Fellow in Economics, Oxford Univers, George (Queen Elizabeth House, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford Uni

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• The collapse in commodity prices since 1980 have been a major cause of the economic crisis in a large part of the Third World. This book demonstrates,... Lees meer

The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 2

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• Here, contributors provide a set of studies of emerging development issues, ranging from foundational matters to case studies. They address issues on ... Lees meer

Trade Policy, Industrialization, and Development

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• This study investigates the ways in which the characteristics of a developing country's domestic industrial sector - its oligopolistic technology - af... Lees meer

Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century

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• This book deals with the importance of industrialization and the development of manufacturing in the economic development process. It focuses specific... Lees meer

The Poor under Globalization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa

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• This volume uses thirteen case studies to analyze the impact of economic globalization on poverty and inequality in different regions of the developin... Lees meer

Transition and Institutions

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• This volume reviews the role of initial structural and institutional conditions and their subsequent development during the course of the transition a... Lees meer