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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It
by Paul Collier  Publisher Comments In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book...
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The Chinese Economic Renaissance
by Dilip K. Das Publisher Comments Following the launch in China of economic reforms and the 'open door policy', a new era of economic growth and global integration dawned. In 2008, the thirtieth anniversary year, China completes three decades of broad-based market-oriented...
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Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries: Who Really Gets Hurt?
by Nita Rudra Publisher Comments The advance of economic globalisation has led many academics, policy-makers and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and capital flows, developing nations that cut public...
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Productivity, Efficiency, and Economic Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region (Contributions to Economics)
by Jeong-dong Lee Synopsis Productivity growth is a keyword for sustainable economic growth in a knowledge-based society. There has been significant methodological development in the literature on productivity and efficiency analysis, e.g. SFA (Stochastic Frontier Analysis) and...
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Trends in Business and Economic Ethics (Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy)
by Michaela Haase Publisher Comments A growing body of academic and business specialists are paying attention to ethical issues in business and economics, drawing on a wide range of different disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. This volume presents important new insights from...
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands Development Report (State Development Report)
by Academic Foundation Publisher Comments Providing independent, quality reference documents, this report highlights issues related to the development priorities of the islands and looks to the future in areas such as health, education, tribal development, environment, agriculture, ports, and...
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Cross Regional Trade Agreements: Understanding Permeated Regionalism in East Asia (Political Economy of the Asia Pacific)
by Saori N. Katada Publisher Comments An unacknowledged key feature of East Asian FTA diplomacy is the region's active cross-regional preferential trading relations. In sharp contrast to the Americas and Europe, where cross-regional initiatives gained strength after the consolidation of...
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Production Frontiers. Rolf Fre, Shawna Grosskopf, C.A. Knox Lovell
by Rolf Fare Publisher Comments This book presents a mathematical programming approach to the analysis of production frontiers and efficiency measurement. Using linear programming techniques, the authors construct a variety of production frontiers, and develop a model of efficient...
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Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries: Who Really Gets Hurt?
by Nita Rudra Publisher Comments The advance of economic globalisation has led many academics, policy-makers and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and capital flows, developing nations that cut public...
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Sikkim Development Report (State Development Report)
by The Planning Commission Publisher Comments Joining previous editions on other Indian states, this report focuses on Sikkim, a state that is a popular tourist destination for its culture, scenic beauty, and biodiversity. Analyzing the entire range of the state’s development issues of...
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Asset Pricing for Dynamic Economies
by Sumru Altug Publisher Comments This introduction to general equilibrium modelling takes an integrated approach to the analysis of macroeconomics and finance. It provides students, practitioners, and policymakers with an easily accessible set of tools that can be used to analyze a wide...
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Zew Economic Studies #40: Reform Options for the Eu Own Resources System
by Friedrich Heinemann Synopsis This study develops a reform proposal for the future revenue system of the EU budget. The findings strongly reject the idea that a reform based on an EU tax-based own resource would remedy current problems. Against the background of the status quo...
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Voting and Collective Decision-Making: Bargaining and Power
by Annick Laruelle Publisher Comments Every day thousands of decisions are made by all kinds of committees, parliaments, councils and boards by a 'yes-no' voting process. Sometimes a committee can only accept or reject the proposals submitted to it for a decision. On other occasions...
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East Asia's Economic Integration: Progress and Benefit
by Daisuke Hiratsuka Publisher Comments FTAs are proliferating in East Asia. This proliferation will become a foundation for the region's economic integration on the one hand, but will also lead to the "spaghetti (or noodle) ball syndrome," due to a mixture of different rules such as rules of...
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Does Foreign Aid Really Work?
by Roger C. Riddell Publisher Comments Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? Other attempts to answer these important questions have been dominated by a focus on the impact of...
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Economics Transformed: Discovering the Brilliance of Marx
by Robert Albritton Synopsis Robert Albritton brings to life the classic concepts in Marx's economic thought. As well as examining these essential points of Marxist theory, he shows that they offer great potential for further study. Deeply critical of the way economics is taught and...
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Common Cents: How the Economy Really Works--From the Global Market to the Supermarket
by Nancy J. Kimelman Synopsis Common Cents gives average Americans the fundamental knowledge they need to make smart decisions on family finances, investments, jobs, even health care and outsourcing. It brings into focus the hot-button economic, social, and political issues that...
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Economic Growth: Theory and Numerical Solution Methods
by Alfonso Novales Publisher Comments This is a book on deterministic and stochastic Growth Theory and the computational methods needed to produce numerical solutions. Exogenous and endogenous growth models are thoroughly reviewed. Special attention is paid to the use of these models for...
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Applied General Equilibrium Analysis
by Herbert E. Scarf Publisher Comments This book presents a collection of articles on applied general equilibrium analysis by major contributors to this field. This rapidly expanding method of analysis involves the use of computers to study entire economies and the interrelationships among...
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Using Deliberative Techniques to Teach Financial Literacy (Deliberating Across the Curriculum)
by Nancy Claxton Publisher Comments The second volume in IDEA's Deliberating Across the Curriculum Series, Using Deliberative Techniques to Teach Financial Literacy is written for busy teachers who want to bring innovation and participatory teaching techniques into their classroom. Using...
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