Measuring the costs of protection in china

Modern studies in african society

Omeihe & Harrison, both global scholars, strip down modern African society to its core elements. As editors, they focus on what defines a modern African society & for whom, carefully curating chapters that relate to and illustrate these questions through key topics such as migration, equa...

Natural resource valuation and policy in brazil

Brazil's environmental problems, especially Amazon deforestation, have attracted considerable attention, particularly in the developed world. Peter May brings a sharper and more critical focus to bear on this topic by offering a general overview and seven microeconomic case studies on particular ...

Parental supervision

Parental Supervision amplifies the research Theodore Moran first presented in Foreign Direct Investment and Development (1998), assessing the opportunities and dangers that foreign direct investment may present to the growth of developing countries. Moran uses almost 50 percent more case studies ...

Poverty in a rich society

This book brings together some of Hong Kong’s and the U.K.’s leading experts to examine poverty in Hong Kong. It advances the theory and practice of poverty and social exclusion measurement, and will inspire comparative research and policy analyses for better policy initiatives.

Reforming korea's industrial conglomerates

When what was to become the Asian financial crisis of 1997 broke out in Thailand, few analysts predicted that this crisis would spread to South Korea. Korea, after all, had risen from poverty to become one of the "Asian miracle economies". However, the crisis did not spare Korea, and the Korean g...