Economic Development category: 2617 books

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Unequal Treatment (Routledge Revivals)

A Study in the Neo-Classical Theory of Discrimination

by Mats Lundahl, Eskil Wadensjo
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015

This book, written by two leading Swedish economists and first published in 1984, constitutes a threefold contribution to the expanding field of economic discrimination. In the first place, it summarizes different approaches to the economics of discrimination, from the beginning of the British debate...
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by Jati Sengupta
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012

Economic growth of a country depends on its industries. The focus of modern growth theory is basically macroeconomics, although neoclassical models use competitive markets and the optimization behavior of households and firms in general equilibrium framework. The emphasis here is on industry growth,...
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Shale Gas in New Brunswick

Towards a Better Understanding

by Richard Saillant
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014

Shale Gas is to New Brunswick today what the Free Trade Agreement with the United States was to Canada a quarter century ago: a deeply controversial, highly polarizing issues over which tempers quickly flare up. As was the case with the free trade debate, the public discourse on shale gas has degenerated...
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The Domestic Abroad

Diasporas in International Relations

by Latha Varadarajan
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010

In the past few decades, and across disparate geographical contexts, states have adopted policies and initiatives aimed at institutionalizing relationships with "their" diasporas. These practices, which range from creating new ministries to granting dual citizenship, are aimed at integrating diasporas...
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by Robert Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Our world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ignorance, self-deception and denial, with spiralling inequity and injustice. Against a backdrop of climate change, failing ecosystems, poverty, crushing debt and corporate exploitation, the future of our world looks dire...
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Innovation Networks and the New Asian Regionalism

A Knowledge Platform on Economic Productivity

by Hans-Peter Brunner
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016

The rise of Asia, as well as the future of regional cooperation and integration (RCI) the world over, will be profoundly influenced by the challenges of slowing productivity growth, increasing economic inequalities and systemic vulnerabilities. Such structural reform issues will require RCI policies...
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Enacting Participatory Development

Theatre-based Techniques

by Julie Mccarthy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012

Theatre can play an essential role in addressing issues of power in social, political and cultural relationships, and acting as a catalyst for personal and societal change. This comprehensive and lively sourcebook advocates the use of theatre in participatory development as a way for groups to discover...
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Obliging Need

Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism

by Scott Cook, Leigh Binford
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013

For centuries throughout large portions of the globe, petty agriculturalists and industrialists have set their physical and mental energies to work producing products for direct consumption by their households and for exchange. This twofold household reproduction strategy, according to both Marxist and...
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Ecofundamentalism

A Critique of Extreme Environmentalism

by Rögnvaldur Hannesson
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014

Everyone has heard of environmentalism, but what is it? Is it ideology or religion? Like socialism, environmentalism is a political program, but even more diffuse. Environmentalists hold diverse opinions, from wanting to take care of nature in human interest to putting nature above man. The latter...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014

The Hartwell Approach to Climate Policy presents a powerful critique of mainstream climate change policies and details a set of pragmatic alternatives based on the Hartwell Group’s collective writings from 1988-2010. Drawing on a rich history of heterodox but increasingly accepted views on climate...
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by Andrew Newman, Gerry Nagtzaam
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that nuclear power generation facilities produce about 200,000 cubic meters of low and intermediate-level waste each year. Vital medical procedures, industrial processes and basic science research also produce significant quantities of waste. All of...
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Fair Progress?

Economic Mobility across Generations around the World

by Ambar Narayan, Roy Van der Weide, Alexandru Cojocaru
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018

Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations around the World focuses on an issue that has gotten much attention in the developed world, but will present new data and analysis covering most of the world including developing economies. The analysis considers whether those born in poverty or...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010

This book focuses on three main areas, each of which is central to economic theorising: firms’ organisation and behaviour, technological change and the process of globalisation. Each subject can be analysed by using different methods, which range from purely theoretical abstractions to case studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Economists since the First Industrial Revolution have been interested in the links between economic growth and resources, often pointing to resource scarcities as a hindrance to growth. Offering a counter perspective, this volume highlights the positive role that scarcities can play in inducing technical...
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