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Food security in a food abundant world
Food insecurity can result from various events. While an adequate food supply is necessary, when food is abundant the entitlement to food is limited by endowments, the ability to trade, and potential transfers. This volume considers trends in economic growth, agricultural productivity growth, inc...
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Food security in an uncertain world
International trade agreements are central to food security. Food security and poverty are also linked. Even with increased productivity, problems attached to food security cannot be solved without significant changes in income distribution.
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Foreign direct investment and development
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown dramatically and is now the largest and most stable source of private capital for developing countries and economies in transition, accounting for nearly 50 percent of all those flows. Meanwhile, the growing role of FDI in host countries has been accompan...
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From complex systems to transdisciplinarity
This book analyzes resilience and sustainability in 7 complex adaptive systems, highlighting transitions from complexity to transdisciplinarity for knowledge integration. It explores second order cybernetics, entropy and reflexivity, contributing to debates on traditional ontological and epistemo...
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From development to democracy
Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’tOver the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world’s poorest ...
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From financial crisis to global recovery
In this book, Padma Desai makes the complexities of economic policy and financial reform accessible to a wide audience. Merging a compelling narrative with scholarly research, she begins with a systematic breakdown of the factors leading to America's recent recession, describing the monetary poli...
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From microfinance to business planning
This groundbreaking book shows how innovative microfinance solutions can help billions to avoid 'poverty traps' and escape atavistic misery. While the success of microfinance has globally exceeded even the wildest expectations, there are still many obstacles – above all the lack of proper busines...
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From reversal of fortune to economic resurgence
This book examines Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and most populous country, and five selected Asian countries in comparative development and sectoral perspectives. It employs quantitative and qualitative methods, including case studies and statistical/econometric methods, to analyze factors t...
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Gastronomy for tourism development
Gastronomy for Tourism Development provides readers with insight into the political reasons all countries in the region pay little attention to the common gastronomic heritage. It challenges the issues faced by those within the industry, addressing the potential for the region to become a sustain...
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Gender in agrarian transitions
This book advances contemporary debates on the evolution of patriarchal institutions in agrarian transitions and the struggles for women's liberation today. It focuses on the complexities of agrarian transitions in the Global South and the crisis of socia
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Global corporations and national governments
There is inherent tension between the increasingly global focus of foreign investors and the continuing national focus of governments. Countries, particularly developing ones, compete to attract investment from global corporations, and they attach performance requirements to tilt the impact of th...
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Globalization, social dividend, and sustainable development goals
Bringing together a diverse group of scholars from across the globe, including experts from the United States, Italy, Turkey, Australia, India, Bhutan, Ghana, Sri Lanka and Eritrea, this volume offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the ways globalization impacts economic and social policies.
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Grocery story
Grocery Story makes a compelling case for how food co-ops, as alternatives to corporate grocery giants, are spurring the creation of delicious local food economies and stronger communities, while changing the global food system for the better.
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Growth and developmental aspects of credit allocation
Growth and Developmental Aspects of Credit Allocation: An Inquiry for Leading Countries and the Indian States focuses on bank credit and deposit within a variety of economies and specifically examines Indian states to demonstrate how these two financial components are linked to their income growt...
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Growth and policy in developing countries
Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that ...
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Growth, development and environmental implications of good governance
Author Ramesh Chandra Das explores the complex ties between governance, economic growth, development, and environmental management. Addressing key questions on governance’s role in development and sustainability, this work uses global case studies to analyze governance models and their impact on ...
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Health econometrics
This volume covers a wide range of existing and emerging topics in applied health economics, including behavioural economics, medical care risk, social insurance, discrete choice models, cost-effectiveness analysis, health and immigration, and more.
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How africa works
“[O]ne of the most original and important books on Africa in years.”—Financial Times“Challenges outdated narratives and makes a compelling case for the continent's economic potential.”—Bill GatesThe acclaimed author of How Asia Works brings his “pithy, well-written and intellectually vigorous” (F...
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How china grows
Why investment and financial reform are essential to China's continued economic well-beingAlthough China's economy has grown spectacularly over the last twenty-five years, economists disagree about how the Chinese economy is likely to fare in the short- and long-term future. Is China's growth sus...
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How finance is shaping the economies of china, japan, and korea
This volume connects the evolving modern financial systems of China, Japan, and Korea to the development and growth of their economies through the first decade of the twenty-first century. It also identifies the commonalities among all three systems while accounting for their social, political, a...
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How growth really happens
A groundbreaking study that shows how countries can create innovative, production-based economies for the twenty-first centuryAchieving economic growth is one of today's key challenges. In this groundbreaking book, Michael Best argues that to understand how successful growth happens we need an ec...
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How social media shapes culture and identity among youth
This collection highlights underrepresented narratives on how social media shapes identity, culture, and politics amongst youth in the Gulf region. Using quantitative and qualitative studies, it explores the impact on university students’ critical thinking, creativity, communication, and adherenc...
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Hydropolitics
An in-depth look at the people and institutions connected with the Itaipu Dam, the world’s biggest producer of renewable energyHydropolitics is a groundbreaking investigation of the world’s largest power plant and the ways the energy we use shapes politics and economics. Itaipu Binational Hydroel...
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Hypocrisy trap
As the preeminent international development agency for the past sixty years, the World Bank has attracted equal amounts of criticism and praise. Critics are especially quick to decry the World Bank's hypocrisy--the pervasive gaps between the organization's talk, decisions, and actions. In the wak...
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Imagine there's no country
A new era of globalization, which began in the 1980s, brought about a significant decline in costs of transportation, communication, and production; considerably improved intercountry competitiveness; and broke down trade and cultural barriers among countries. The concept of a sovereign nation ha...
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Imperialism and the political economy of global south’s debt
Imperialism and the Political Economy of Global South’s Debt recognises the systemic nature of the Global South’s external debt, revealed only further by the economic uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the need to analyse it in relation to existing imperialist structures.
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Improving tax increment financing (tif) for economic development
In the most comprehensive assessment of tax increment financing (TIF) with practical policy recommendations, economist David Merriman reviews more than 30 studies and offers guidance for local policy makers and practitioners. The report explains how TIF districts work, illustrates TIF use with ca...
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In china's wake
Nicholas Jepson shows how Chinese demand not only transformed commodity markets but also provided resource-rich states with the financial leeway to set their own policy agendas. He combines analysis of China-led structural change with fine-grained detail on how the boom played out across fifteen ...
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In pursuit of the sustainable development goals
In Pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals uses interviews and real-world case studies to delve into how initiatives like self-help groups and community lending have empowered women and contributed to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of poverty reduction (Goal 1) an...
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In the loop
A thorough and highly-accessible history of San Antonio’s economic and political development
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Inclusive developments through socio-economic indicators
Proposing issues that hinder equal development, Inclusive Developments through Socio-economic Indicators: New Theoretical and Empirical Insights focuses upon the roles of different socio-economic indicators in explaining the convergence or inclusiveness of income across groups of varying wealth a...
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Inclusive growth
The book outlines a journey from enabling models of government and business to strategies for creating both financial and social inclusion and entrepreneurism as mechanisms for sustainable and inclusive growth.
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Indian tourism
Indian Tourism brings together leading experts from all over the world to assess the challenges and opportunities of the tourism sector in India and its correlation to the country’s economic performance and prospects.
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Indians, markets, and rainforests
This book addresses two important and related questions: does participation in a market economy help or hurt indigenous peoples and how does it affect the conservation of tropical rainforest flora and fauna? Oddly, there have been few quantitative studies that have addressed these issues.Ricardo ...
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Indigenous empowerment through human-machine interactions
Indigenous Empowerment through Human-Machine Interactions serves as a bridge between academia, policymaking, and Indigenous leadership, offering a practical guide for policymakers and professionals seeking to engage with Indigenous communities in meaningful ways.
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Industrial policy and economic transformation in africa
Explores the vital role that industrial policies can play in bringing about a transformation of African economies
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Industrial policy in an era of globalization
Globalization reigns supreme as a description of recent economic transformation—and it carries many meanings. In the policy realm, the orthodox terms of engagement have been enshrined in the "Washington consensus." But disappointing results in Latin America and transitional economies—plus the Asi...
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Informal economy and sustainable development goals
What role does the informal economy have to play in SDG implementation? The chapters collected here by a range of scholars explore this question in detail; examining case studies and presenting empirical evidence based on both qualitative and quantitative assessment.
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Infrastructure economics and policy
In this comparison of infrastructure across countries and sectors, leading international academics and practitioners consider the latest approaches to infrastructure policy, implementation, and finance. The book presents evidence-based solutions and policy considerations, essential concepts and e...
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Innovation and entrepreneurship
The world of business is constantly changing. Here, a cast of key players from Latin America explore the conceptual foundations, methodologies, and tools for mini-cases and business challenges to innovation and entrepreneurship in emerging markets.
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Innovation strategy for enterprises in emerging economies
Particularly in developing economies, there is a need for business alignment with innovation strategy and execution of strategies. The authors demonstrate through real-world examples and case studies how a firm can use innovation at all levels (strategic, functional and operational) to provide be...
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International policy rules and inequality
An interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars scrutinizes how the rules of global economic governance—or the lack thereof—determine the extent and growth of inequality. With a focus on achievable reforms, this book offers concrete steps capable of counteracting inequitable wealth distribution ...
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Introduction to modern economic growth
From Nobel Prize–winning economist Daron Acemoglu, an incisive introduction to economic growthIntroduction to Modern Economic Growth is a groundbreaking text from one of today's leading economists. Daron Acemoglu gives graduate students not only the tools to analyze growth and related macroeconom...
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Islam and the economic challenge
What kind of economic policy package do Islamic teachings imply? This book seeks to answer this and other related questions.
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Issues and challenges in the malaysian economy
Focusing on Malaysia's shifting economic profile and position, this book offers new insights and perspectives to scholars and researchers on a range of new developments impacting on growth, such as the effects of the digital economy on job creation and the threats of environmental degradation and...
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Labour regimes and global production
The book considers a range of conceptual debates around labour regimes and global production relating to issues of scale, informality, race, social reproduction, the labour process and migration as well as in relation to methods, theory and research practice.
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Law and the wealth of nations
Tamara Lothian shows a path to the reconstruction of the economy in the service of both growth and inclusion that would reignite economic growth by democratizing the market. Law and the Wealth of Nations offers a progressive approach to the supply side of the economy and proposes innovation in ou...
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Leadership and power in international development
Leaders present lessons learned, strategies, challenges, and successes in easy-to-read narratives highlighting their diverse experiences with context, culture, power, gender and sustainability.
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Leasing public land
Leasehold systems offer a flexible form of land tenure that can be designed to provide an ongoing stream of revenue to finance public infrastructure. Leasing public land has long been advocated as a viable land tenure option for former socialist countries and other transitional economies. However...
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