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John Wiley & Sons Urban Risk Assessments Understanding Disaster and Climate Risk in Cities
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John Wiley & Sons Early Childhood Development and Education in Chi Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Improving Future Competitiveness
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John Wiley & Sons Is Fiscal Policy the Answer Developing Countries
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John Wiley & Sons The Economics of Uniqueness Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development
Book SynopsisBrings together the latest knowledge on historic city regeneration and cultural heritage conservation and their linkage to poverty reduction. It addresses the potential of conservation and adaptive reuse of heritage assets as drivers of local economic development, especially in urban areas.
£24.75
John Wiley & Sons Transforming Cities with Transit Transit and
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John Wiley & Sons Opening Doors Gender Equality and Development in
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MP-WBK World Bank Group Publ Local Content Policies in the Oil and Gas Sector
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Ohio University Press Seeing Like a Citizen Decolonization Development
Book SynopsisIn focusing on rural Kenyans as they actively sought access to aid, Moskowitz offers new insights into the texture of political life in the decolonizing and early postcolonial world. Her account complicates our understanding of Kenyan experiences of independence, and the meaning and form of development.Trade Review“Expertly researched, superbly written…. Smashing the boundaries between the colonial and independence periods, Seeing Like a Citizen is a fascinating and much-needed exploration of the complex and shifting ways that rural African communities experienced development and understood citizenship…. [A] benchmark study.” * Journal of African History *“Impeccably researched and fluently written, Seeing Like a Citizen is the work of a skilled and diligent historian. It is a welcome and timely reorientation of the historiography of decolonizing Kenya away from some familiar themes. It is a fitting addition to the illustrious New African Histories series.”"This book represents the best of African history. In telling history ‘from below’, Moskowitz has managed to write a social history of Kenya in the independence and post-independence periods that also draws from and gives great insight into political, environmental, economic, and gender history. The ambition of the book is vast, and it cogently ties together oral history interviews with an institutional history of World Bank and international development agency projects, government ministry efforts, changing crop cultivation patterns, the shifting roles of women in agricultural production, and the history of price controls, among others. That Moskowitz pulls this all off in a coherent narrative that moves along crisply is a tremendous accomplishment, especially for a first book. * Journal of Contemporary History *“Well-researched and impeccably written…. [A] powerful contribution to the discussion on decolonization and development in the early postcolonial world. It will be of interest to any scholar interested in deepening their knowledge of development, statecraft, and citizenship.” * H-Africa, H-Net Reviews *
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Ohio University Press Village Work Development and Rural Statecraft in
Book SynopsisThis detailed and groundbreaking history of rural Ghanaian statecraft details the crucial importance that local village development systems have on regional and national scales.Trade Review“Village Work provides new, critical perspectives on debates about development in both scholarship and practice. By placing the village at the center of development politics, Wiemers challenges conventional understandings of statecraft and humanizes the development process at all levels, detailing the improvisations and inconsistencies that lay behind the promise of ‘progress.’”“Village Work offers a sophisticated analysis of small-scale development projects in rural Ghana while bringing visibility to the ‘hinterland statecraft’ of local communities as they navigated the rising developmentalist states in the twentieth century. Deftly written and superbly argued, Wiemers illuminates the ‘useable fictions’ of rural sameness that government and NGO employees operationalized to justify their homogenizing of villages and rural space across Africa.”“Village Work is a timely and fascinating multilayered history of development in Ghana. Using the village of Kpasenkpe in northern Ghana as the focus, Alice Wiemers has written a penetrating study of the ‘performance’ of development in Africa from the family unit to the village, national, and international levels.”“This is a phenomenal piece of scholarship, which will be of interest to scholars of development, statecraft, and labor in Africa and beyond.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *
£56.10
Duke University Press A Report of the International Commission for
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Duke University Press From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt
Book SynopsisTrade Review"From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt marks a breakthrough in social and political analysis, showing for the first time how the interconnection between national and regional politics, on the one hand, and government policy, on the other, brought about the transformation of the social economy of the South from the days of the New Deal to the 1980s. Moreover, it is written with verve and clarity and from a wealth of governmental and manuscript sources. All that is hard to beat."—Carl Degler, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsPreface to the Duke Edition vii Preface xi 1. Introduction: Becoming Economic Problem No. 1 5 2. "Wild Cards and Innovations" 39 3. The Wages of Dixie 63 4. "Bulldozers on the Old Plantation" 88 5. Persistent Whiggery: Federal Entitlements and Southern Politics 112 6. Missiles and Magnolias 135 7. "Shadows on the Sunbelt" 174 8. Conclusion: Place Over People 206 Essay on Selected Sources 222 Notes 232 Index 323
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Duke University Press Markets of Dispossession
Book SynopsisA case study of economic development in Cairo that sheds light on issues of agency and empowerment in the age of neoliberal globalizationTrade Review“Markets of Dispossession is a brilliant study of contemporary forms of market ideology and practice. Exploring central questions about value and social resources, debt and dispossession, culture and power, it offers an original and outstanding contribution to the anthropological analysis of the economic.”—Timothy Mitchell, author of Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity“Ethnographically rich and analytically powerful, Markets of Dispossession fundamentally reshapes the debate over the informal economy, microenterprise, and economic development and points to the complex and many-layered world-conjuring work of that which we have come to call neoliberalism. Based on evocative accounts of craftsmen’s workshops in Cairo, Julia Elyachar shows how the market expansion promoted by the World Bank, NGOs, and others poses critical challenges to both everyday lives and contemporary social analysis.”—Bill Maurer, author of Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason“[A] masterful description and sophisticated interpretation of the transformation of the social, cultural, and political economy of urban Egypt since the early 1990s. . . . Elyachar has written a book that is essential reading for anyone concerned with development, Egypt and the Arab World, and the dangers of ideologically motivated interference by foreign social scientists and other experts in local economies and societies.” -- Donald (Abdallah) Cole * American Ethnologist *“Elyachar has produced a work rich in fine ethnographic detail and driven by important theoretical insights into the workings of market, the anthropology of value, the play of power in society, and the social consequences of development strategies. This is a brilliant study on many levels. . . . This work is a tour-de-force of critical analysis and ethnographic exposition. It sets new standards for the study of programmatic economic development, the ethnography of craft and small-scale production, and the cultural consequences and human costs of structural adjustment.” -- Roy Dilley * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix A Note on Transliteration xv 1. Introduction: The Power of Invisible Hands 1 2. A Home for Markets: Two Neighborhoods in Plan and Practice, 1905–1996 37 3. Mappings of Power: Informal Economy and Hybrid States 66 4. Mastery, Power, and Model Workshop Markets 96 5. Value, the Evil Eye, and Economic Subjectivities 137 6. NGO's, Business, and Social Capital 167 7. Empowering Debt 191 Conclusion: The Free Market and the Invisible Spectator 213 Notes 221 Bibliography 245 Index 269
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Duke University Press Markets of Dispossession
Book SynopsisA case study of economic development in Cairo that sheds light on issues of agency and empowerment in the age of neoliberal globalizationTrade Review“Markets of Dispossession is a brilliant study of contemporary forms of market ideology and practice. Exploring central questions about value and social resources, debt and dispossession, culture and power, it offers an original and outstanding contribution to the anthropological analysis of the economic.”—Timothy Mitchell, author of Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity“Ethnographically rich and analytically powerful, Markets of Dispossession fundamentally reshapes the debate over the informal economy, microenterprise, and economic development and points to the complex and many-layered world-conjuring work of that which we have come to call neoliberalism. Based on evocative accounts of craftsmen’s workshops in Cairo, Julia Elyachar shows how the market expansion promoted by the World Bank, NGOs, and others poses critical challenges to both everyday lives and contemporary social analysis.”—Bill Maurer, author of Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason“[A] masterful description and sophisticated interpretation of the transformation of the social, cultural, and political economy of urban Egypt since the early 1990s. . . . Elyachar has written a book that is essential reading for anyone concerned with development, Egypt and the Arab World, and the dangers of ideologically motivated interference by foreign social scientists and other experts in local economies and societies.” -- Donald (Abdallah) Cole * American Ethnologist *“Elyachar has produced a work rich in fine ethnographic detail and driven by important theoretical insights into the workings of market, the anthropology of value, the play of power in society, and the social consequences of development strategies. This is a brilliant study on many levels. . . . This work is a tour-de-force of critical analysis and ethnographic exposition. It sets new standards for the study of programmatic economic development, the ethnography of craft and small-scale production, and the cultural consequences and human costs of structural adjustment.” -- Roy Dilley * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix A Note on Transliteration xv 1. Introduction: The Power of Invisible Hands 1 2. A Home for Markets: Two Neighborhoods in Plan and Practice, 1905–1996 37 3. Mappings of Power: Informal Economy and Hybrid States 66 4. Mastery, Power, and Model Workshop Markets 96 5. Value, the Evil Eye, and Economic Subjectivities 137 6. NGO's, Business, and Social Capital 167 7. Empowering Debt 191 Conclusion: The Free Market and the Invisible Spectator 213 Notes 221 Bibliography 245 Index 269
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Duke University Press Conservation Is Our Government Now
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New GuineaTrade Review“Conservation Is Our Government Now is a timely and significant contribution to contemporary critical scholarship on conservation. More than any other study of which I am aware, it provides an ethnographically rich, nuanced account of the encounter between conservation practitioners and a local community. It is an exemplar of the power of ethnographic writing to reveal other subjectivities and other ways of being.”—J. Peter Brosius, coeditor of Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management“Incisive, moving, and beautifully written, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an absolutely exemplary study and a completely absorbing narrative. It is quite simply one of the most sophisticated political ecology books I have read to date.”—Neil Smith, author of The Endgame of GlobalizationTable of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xxiii Abbreviations and Acronyms xxix 1. New Guinea-New York 1 2. Making Crater Mountain 27 3. Articulations, Histories, Development 52 4. Conservation Histories 125 5. A Land of Pure Possibility 147 6. The Practices of Conservation-as-Development 183 7. Exchanging Conservation for Development 215 Appendices 239 Notes 251 Bibliography 279 Index 311
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Duke University Press Other Cities Other Worlds
Book SynopsisOffers a look at non-Western global cities. This work focuses on urban imaginaries, the way that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own cities. It analyzes the effects of global processes such as the growth of transnational corporations and investment, the weakening of state sovereignty, and the privatization of previously public services.Trade Review“Other Cities, Other Worlds is interdisciplinary in the best sense of the term. Architects and architectural historians and critics, art curators, anthropologists, cultural analysts and social theorists, historians and sociologists speak to and through each other, relating older urban forms to emergent ones, drawing on contemporary critical theory developed in the metropoles but put to new work. This book will affect how we think of globalization itself, as not just a top-down linear form of development and displacement but a far more complex set of interactions that the contributors do a very good job of beginning to comprehend.”—David Theo Goldberg, author of The Racial State“Other Cities, Other Worlds offers quite brilliant and absorbing accounts of urban imaginaries in major cities outside the West. This is not just another globalization book but one of real distinction about contemporary urban life ‘elsewhere.’”—George E. Marcus, co-author of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary“This in-depth and wide-ranging study of the results of urban development in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East points not only to the radical transformations effected by the globalization of neoliberal capitalism but also to their fundamentally different effects on culture, city-form, and daily life, a mark of the ‘local’ in the ‘global.’ Written by experts in their respective fields and geographical areas, this unique collection of essays is unified by the editorial guidance provided by Andreas Huyssen, who has adroitly organized the book as a primer in the cultural analysis of worldwide economic transformation.”—Anthony Vidler, author of Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural ModernismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities / Andreas Huyssen 1 Latin America Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture / Beatriz Sarlo 27 From Modernism to Neoliberalism in São Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 51 Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization / Néstor García Canclini 79 Africa The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanites and the Larger Urban World / AbdouMaliq Simone 99 Unsettling Johannesburg: The Country in the City / Hilton Judin 121 Mega-exhibitions: The Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form / Okwui Enwezor 147 Asia Mumbai: The Modern City in Ruins / Gyan Prakash 181 Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism of Mumbai / Rahul Mehrotra 205 Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema / Yingjin Zhang 219 Faking Globalization / Ackbar Abbas 243 Middle East Two Dreams in a Global City: Class and Space in Urban Egypt / Farha Ghannam 267 Hüzün—Melancholy—Tristesse of Istanbul / Orhan Pamuk 289 Bibliography 307 Contributors 321 Index 325
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Duke University Press Exporting Revolution Cubas Global Solidarity
Book SynopsisMargaret Randall explores the Cuban Revolution's impact on the outside world, tracing Cuba's international outreach in healthcare, disaster relief, education, literature, art, liberation struggles, and sports to show how this outreach is a fundamental characteristic of the Revolution and of Cuban society.Trade Review"Exporting Revolution [is] another excellent contribution to our understanding of Cuban policymaking compiled by the poet and activist Margaret Randall." -- Gavin O'Toole * Latin American Review of Books *"Margaret Randall gives a thoughtful historical analysis of the politics of the island nation, mostly during the Fidel Castro era. . . . Randall lived in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. It’s an analysis based on her wealth of experience." -- David Steinberg * Albuquerque Journal *"Randall studies internationalism through poetry’s perspective but in doing so she succeeds and shines a light on novels, short stories, poetry and essays that she describes as the beginning of a genre of internationalist writing worthy of further study in itself." * Morning Star *“Anyone interested in Cuba, foreign policy, foreign development assistance, and international humanitarianism will find Exporting Revolution of interest. . . . Scholars of all stripes should examine Randall’s key argument fully and critically.” -- Peter M. Sánchez * The Latin Americanist *"A personal take on Cuban internationalism. . . . The greatest contribution lies in chapters 8, 9, and 10, which contain translated short-story excerpts written by Cuban internationalists. The selections would enrich syllabi for courses on Cuban history or global health." -- Elizabeth Schwall * The Historian *"[Randall] makes us rethink how foreign aid is conceived and deployed in other countries by focusing on the policies implemented by the Caribbean island. Hers is an interesting contribution to the literature concerned with humanitarian assistance and foreign aid." -- Marcus Oliver Golding * H-War, H-Net Reviews *"As a mythopoetic testament … this recitation of the Cuban Revolution's importance and successes has much to recommend it.… With no impartiality and little pretense, and rich with oral histories, anecdotes, and effort to situate the Cuban revolution's place in the global firmament, this combination memoir, oral history, presentation of work not normally seen, and distinctive political analysis is, like the Cuban Revolution, extraordinary, unique." -- Eric Selbin * Left History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. How These Ideas Took Shape 1 2. Talent and Influence beyond Numbers 22 3. Cuba by Cuba 42 4. The Island 56 5. Cuban Solidarity: Africa 69 6. Cuban Solidarity: Latin America 83 7. Internationalism, Cuban Style 98 8. Emilio in Angoloa 111 9. Nancy in Ethiopia 122 10. Laidi in Zambia 135 11. Educating New Men and Women, Globally 144 12. Cuban Health Care: A Model That Works 159 13. Cuban Health Means World Health 171 14. Sports for Everyone 192 15. What I Learned 205 Notes 223 Bibliography 245 Index 249
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University of Pittsburgh Press Dictating Development
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University of Pittsburgh Press Energy Capitals
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CABI Publishing Researching the Culture in AgriCulture
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the functions, content, methods, findings, and impacts of social and cultural researchcarried out by the worldwide network of 16 International Agricultural Research Centers of the CGIAR(Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research). Its two main parts -"insiders" and "outsiders"-bring together the perspectives of over 50 eminent scholars and social researchers from 30 countries,working within the Centers or within outside academic and development institutions. The authorsexamine critically the priorities, strengths, and weaknesses of research on the socio-structural, behavioural,cultural, and institutional variables of developing agriculture, forestry, livestock, and fisheries. The studiesfocus on farmers' values, needs and knowledge, their patterns of social organization, issues of food security,natural resource management and poverty reduction. Alternative models of multidisciplinary research,reuniting biological, natural, economic and social sciences Table of Contentsa: In Memoriam: Tribute to Robert K Merton b: Foreword, Emil Q Javier and Per Pinstrup-Andersen c: Stock Taking and New Challenges in Social Research. Editors' Preface, M M Cernea and A H Kassam d: Acknowledgements PART 1: SOCIAL RESEARCH FOR AGRICULTURALPOLICIES 1: Rites of Entrance and Rights of Citizenship: The Uphill Battle for Social Research in a Technological Environment, M M Cernea 2: Agricultural Institutions and Receptivity to Social Research:The Case of the CGIAR, A H Kassam 3: Who Are the Social Researchers of the CGIAR System?E Rathgeber, University of Ottawa, Canada PART 2: THE INSIDERS' VIEWS: SOCIAL RESEARCH INTHE CGIAR SYSTEM 4: Rice for the Poor: The Call and Opportunity for SocialResearch, T R Paris, DAPO, Philippines, S Morin, F G Palis, andM Hossain 5: Understanding Forests-People Links: The Voice of SocialScientists, C J Pierce Colfer, CIFOR, Indonesia with E Dounias,M Goloubinoff, C Lopéz,and W Sunderlin 6: Humanizing Technology Development in the GreenRevolution's Home, M R Bellon, CIMMYT, Mexico, M Morris,J Ekboir, E Meng, H De Groote, and G Saín 7: Water to Thirsty Fields: How Social Research CanContribute, M Samad, International Water ManagementInstitute, Sri Lanka and D J Merrey 8: Rootcrops in Agricultural Societies: What Social Research hasRevealed, G Prain, CGIAR System-wide Initiative on Urban &Peri-urban Agriculture, Lima, Peru,G Thiele,O Ortiz, and D Campilan 9: Why the 'Livestock Revolution' Requires Research on People,D Romney, ILRI, Nairobi, Kenya and B Minjauw 10: Aquatic Resources: Collective Management Patterns and Governance forthe World's Fish Wealth, K Kuperan Viswanathan, World FishCenter, Dhaka, Bangladesh, M Ahmed,P Thompson, P Sultana, M Dey, and M Torell 11: Tropical Agriculture and Social Research: An AnalyticalPerspective, D Holland, Greening Australia, Inc, Australia,J Ashby, M Mejía, and J Voss 12: Dry Areas and the Changing Demands for Social Research,A A Aw-Hassan, International Center for Agricultural Researchin the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Syria and M Abdelali-Martini 13: Agricultural Biodiversity and How Human Culture is ShapingIt, P Eyzaguirre, IPGRI, Italy 14: Studying Property Rights and Collective Action: A System-Wide Program, R Meinzen-Dick, CGIAR, USA 15: Crafting Food Policy with Social Science Knowledge ,R Meinzen-Dick, M Adato, M Cohen, C Farrar, L Haddad,and A Quisumbing PART 3: THE OUTSIDERS' VIEW: ISSUES,EXPECTATIONS, AND AGENDAS 16: Not Just One Best System: The Diversity of Institutions forCoping with the Commons, E Ostrom, Indiana University, USA 17: Social Research and Researchers in the CGIAR: anUnderused Potential, R Chambers, University of Sussex, UK 18: The Rockefeller Foundation and Social Research in Agriculture,G Conway, The Rockefeller Foundation, USA, A Adesina,J Lynam, and J Moock 19: A Donor Perspective on the Accomplishments, Limitations,and Opportunities for Social Research, S Bode,USAID/EGAT/ESP/IRB,USA and D Rubin 20: Seeking Half our Brains: Constraints and Incentives in theSocial Context of Interdisciplinary Research, R E Rhoades,University of Georgia, USA 21: Roots: Reflections of a 'Rocky Doc' on Social Science inCGIAR, S Guggenheim, The World Bank, USA 22: Social Science Knowledge as Public Good for Agriculture,D G Dalrymple, US Agency for International Development,USA e: Contributors f: List of Abbreviations g: Index
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CABI Publishing Smallholder Cash Crop Production Under Market
Book SynopsisPro poor' economic growth is widely recognised as an important means for reducing poverty in developing countries. With the majority of the world's poor living in rural areas, agricultural intensification, with higher land and labour productivity from increased integration in input and output markets, is one way to expand income and livelihood opportunities for rural people. This book uses a new institutional economics perspective to review the effects of market liberalisation on service provision to smallholder farmers. In many parts of the world, particularly in Sub-saharan Africa, the private sector has failed to fill the gaps left by the collapse of state supported input and credit supply systems. Using case studies from Ghana, Tanzania and Pakistan, the book investigates the difficulties facing the private sector in supplying inputs and credit and the conditions required for sustainable private sector investment to the benefit of rural people. The analysis has important lessons foTable of Contents1: A New Institutional Economics Perspective on Current Policy Debates, C Poulton, A Dorward, J Kydd, N Poole and L Smith 2: Cotton Production and Marketing in Northern Ghana: The Dynamics of Competition on a System Interlocking Transactions, C Poulton 3: The Cashew Sector in Southern Tanzania: Overcoming Problems of Input Supply, C Poulton 4: Cotton and Wheat Marketing and the Provision of Pre-harvest Services in Sindh Province, Pakistan, M Stockbridge, L Smith and H Ram Lohano 5: Conclusions: New Institutional Economics, Policy Debates and the Research Agenda, A Dorward, J Kydd and C Poulton
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CABI Publishing Land Use Changes in Tropical Watersheds
Book SynopsisThis book studies land use change in tropical landscapes, with particular emphasis on the economic processes that influence rates of land degradation and forest clearing. Multidisciplinary contributions draw lessons from a rich, decade-long collection of economic, social and environmental data on the Manupali upland watershed in the southern Philippines. Through this detailed case study the book documents forces leading to land use changes, in particular the potential impacts of institutional evolution and policy reforms, and highlights interrelationships between biological, economic, and social phenomena.Table of Contents1: Economic development and watershed degradation, 2: Agricultural development and institutional transitions, 3: Water quality changes in the Manupali River watershed, 4: How do national markets and price policies affect land use at the forest margin?, 5: How do relative price changes alter land use decisions? 6: Economic incentives and agricultural outcomes in upland settings, 7: Simulating soil erosion and sediment yield in small upland watersheds using the WEPP model, 8: Identifying soil erosion hotspots in the Manupali River watershed, 9: Alternatives to traditional annual crop agriculture in the uplands, 10: Linking economic policies and environmental outcomes at a watershed scale, 11: Using Payments for Environmental Services (PES) to assist in watershed management, 12: Conclusions and some directions for future research,
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CABI Publishing Development with Identity
Book SynopsisThroughout Latin America, indigenous peoples are demanding that development must address local priorities, including ethnic identity. Simultaneously, sustainability scientists need to conduct place-based research on the interaction between environment and society that will have global relevance. This book reports on a 6 year interdisciplinary research project on natural resource management in Cotacachi, Ecuador, where scientists and indigenous groups learnt to seek common ground. The book discusses how local people and the environment have engaged each other over time to create contemporary Andean landscapes. It also explores human-environment interaction in relation to biodiversity, soils and water, and equitable development. This book will be of significant interest to sociologists, anthropologists, economists and sustainability scientists researching environment and agriculture in rural communities.Table of ContentsI: Foreword, A T Males, Municipio del Canton Cotacachi,Ecuador II: Acknowledgements PART 1: INTRODUCTION 1: Linking Sustainability Science, Community and Culture: AResearch Partnership in Cotacachi, Ecuador, R E Rhoades PART 2: TIME AND LANDSCAPE IN COTACACHI 2: Shaping an Andean Landscape: Processes AffectingTopography, Soils, and Hydrology in Cotacachi, F Zehetnerand W P Miller, University of Georgia, USA 3: Incursion, Fragmentation and Tradition: Historical Ecologyof Andean Cotacachi, A Shiloh Moates and B C Campbell,University of Georgia, USA 4: Four Decades of Land Use Change in the CotacachiAndes: 1963-2000, X Zapata Rios, SANREM-Andes Project,Ecuador, R E Rhoades, M C Segovia, SEK InternationalUniversity, Ecuador and F Zehetner 5: Climate Change in Cotacachi, R E Rhoades, X Zapata Riosand J Aragundy, SANREM-Andes Project, Ecuador 6: Traversing a Landscape of Memory, V D Nazarea,R Guitarra, UNORCAC, Cotacachi, Ecuador and R E Rhoades PART 3: BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND USE 7: Biological Diversity in Cotacachi's Andean Forests,M Peñafiel, Alianza Jatun Sacha/CDC-Ecuador, Ecuador,M Tipan, Direccion Nacional de Recursos Naturales,Ecuador, L Nolivos and K Vásquez, Universidad Central delEcuador, Ecuador 8: Trees and Trade-Offs: Perceptions of Eucalyptus andNative Trees in Ecuadorian Highland Communities,A D Carse, University of North Carolina, USA 9: Living, Dwindling, Losing, Finding: Status and Changes inAgrobiodiversity of Cotacachi, K Skarbø, Bygda, Stranda,Norway 10: Women and Homegardens of Cotacachi, M Piniero,CATIE/NORAD, Guatemala 11: Good to Eat, Good to Think: Food, Culture, andBiodiversity in Cotacachi, J Camacho, University of Georgia,USA PART 4: SOILS, WATER, AND SUSTAINABILITY 12: Toward Sustainable Crop Production in Cotacachi: AnAssessment of the Soils' Nutrient Status, F Zehetner andW P Miller 13: Plant-Water Relations in an Andean Landscape: Modellingthe Effect of Irrigation on Upland Crop Production,F Zehetner, W P Miller and X Zapata Ríos 14: Water Quality and Human Needs in Cotacachi: the PichaviWatershed, J Aragundy and X Zapata Ríos 15: Local Resolution of Watershed Management Trade-Offs:The Case of Cotacachi, F Rodríguez with D Southgate, TheOhio State University, USA 16: Community-Based Water Monitoring in Cotacachi,S S Ruiz-Cordóva, B L Duncan, W Deutsch and N Gómez,Auburn University, USA PART 5: NEGOTIATING "DEVELOPMENT WITHIDENTITY" 17: Why is the Earth Tired? A Comparative Analysis ofAgricultural Change and Intervention in NorthernEcuador,B C Campbell 18: Circular Migration and Community Identity: TheirRelationship to the Land, G Flora, American Friends ServiceCommittee, USA 19: Social Capital and Advocacy Coalitions: Examples of Environment Issues from Ecuador, JL Flora, CB Flora,Iowa State University, USA, F Campana, M García Bravo,Heifer Project-Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador and E Fernández-Baza, Peru and Iowa State University, USA 20: Future Visioning for the Andes: Scientific Models andLocal Perspectives on Landuse Change, R E Rhoades andX Zapata Ríos 21: Sustainability Science in Indigenous Communities:Reconciling and Global Agendas, R E Rhoades
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CABI Publishing African Food Crisis
Book SynopsisWhy can Asia now feed its rapidly growing population, but Africa continues to experience famine? This book is the outcome of a three-year project coordinated by a group of Swedish researchers with collaborating scholars from Africa and Asia. It provides a comparative study between Asian agricultural development during the Green Revolution in food production and the current problematic agricultural situation in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on case studies of eight African and eight Asian countries (focusing on the early part of the Green Revolution), this book presents a causal and explanatory model of Asian green revolutions. It discusses why such progress has been made in Asia, but has not yet occurred in Africa. It also examines the implications of the case studies for future development in Africa.Trade Review"Drawing on three years of research by African and Asian specialists, involving study of secondary data, interviews with key individuals, and questioning over 3000 households in more than 100 villages, this is an important study deserving critical attention from the agricultural development community." New Agriculturalist, 2005"Table of Contents1: African Food Crisis - The Relevance of Asian Experiences, G Djurfeldt, H Holmen, M Jirstrom and R Larsson 2: Global Perspectives on Agricultural Development, G Djurfeldt 3: The State and Green Revolutions in East Asia, M Jirström 4: The Puzzle of the Policy Shift - The Early Green Revolution in India, Indonesia and the Philippines, G Djurfeldt and M Jirström 5: Spurts in Production - Africa's Limping Green Revolution, H Holmén 6: The State and Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa, H Holmén 7: Crisis and Potential in Smallholder Food Production - Evidence from Micro Level, R Larsson 8: From Roller Coasters to Rocket Ships: The Role of Technology in African Agricultural Successes, S Haggblade, IFPRI, Zambia 9: The Role of the State in the Nigerian Green Revolution, T Akande, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Nigeria 10: Why the Early Promise for Rapid Increases in Maize Productivity in Kenya Was Not Sustained, W Oluoch-Kosura and J T Karugia, University of Nairobi, Kenya 11: From Ujamaa to Structural Adjustment - Agricultural Intensification in Tanzania, A C Isinika, G C Ashimogo and J E D Mlangwa, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania 12: Smallholders and Structural Adjustment in Ghana, A W Seini and V K Nyanteng, University of Ghana, Ghana 13: Green Revolution and Regional Inequality: Implications of Asian Experience for Africa, K Otsuka, and T Yamano, Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, Japan 14: Conclusions and a look ahead, T Akande, G Djurfeldt, H Holmén and A Isinika
£108.90
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Tax Law and Development
Book SynopsisComprising original essays written by top legal scholars, this innovative volume is the most comprehensive collection to date of independent academic work exploring the relationship between tax, law and development.Trade Review'Anyone working on tax policy for middle and low income countries will consider this book a must-read. Economic globalization of capital markets and multinational corporations has overtaken the abilities of many countries to tax incomes of multinationals and individual residents. From extraction industries to fiscal federalism, the papers demonstrate the importance of sound legal frameworks and formal cooperation across multiple countries and levels of government for implementing sound tax policy in developing nations.'' --Michael J. Wasylenko, Syracuse University, US'On opening this volume, one is immediately struck by the impressive cast of contributors from six continents, as well as the inherent and contemporary interest of the interlinked topics covered.' --Dominic De Cogan and Philip Miles, The Cambridge Law Journal'There is an important need for independent academic scholarship like that in this volume that takes into account the differing perspectives of developing countries and does not look for ''one size fits all'' theories or prescriptions. . . The diverse group of legal scholars from six continents who have contributed to this volume critically address issues from perspectives not restricted to traditional tax policy conceptions and paradigms. As a result, this volume is rich with insights on new and old issues at the intersection of tax, law and development.' --From the foreword by Stephen E. Shay, Harvard Law School, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Stephen E. Shay PART I: INTRODUCTION: TAX REFORM AND FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT 1. Introduction: Tax, Law and Development Yariv Brauner and Miranda Stewart PART II: TAX COMPETITION AND TRAGIC CHOICES 2. The Future of Tax Incentives for Developing Countries Yariv Brauner 3. The Tragic Choices of Tax Policy in a Globalized Economy Tsilly Dagan 4. Economic Development and the Role of Tax in Southern Africa: The South African Headquarter Company Structure Tracy Gutuza 5. Tax Sparing: A Reconsideration of the Reconsideration Luís Eduardo Schoueri PART III: IN SEARCH OF ‘SEARCHERS’ TO FIND UNIQUE SOLUTIONS TO COMMON TAX CHALLENGES 6. Is this a Pipe? Validity of a Tax Reform for a Developing Country Ana Paula Dourado 7. The Place of Law in the Evolution of Chinese Fiscal Federalism Wei Cui 8. The Globalization of Tax Expenditure Reporting: Transplanting Transparency in India and the Global South Lisa Philipps PART IV: TAX EQUITY, REDISTRIBUTION AND AID 9. Internation Equity and Human Development Anthony C. Infanti 10. The Role of Developed World Tax Incentives in Microfinance Charlene D. Luke PART V: TAX COOPERATION 11. Geographical Boundaries of Tax Jurisdiction, Exclusive Allocation of Taxing Powers in Tax Treaties and Good Tax Governance in Relations with Developing Countries Pasquale Pistone 12. Tax Activists and the Global Movement for Development through Transparency Allison Christians 13. Global Tax Information Networks: Legitimacy in a Global Administrative State Miranda Stewart Bibliography Index
£137.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Economics of East Asian Integration
Book SynopsisCovering a wide range of aspects surrounding economic integration in East Asia, this well-researched text will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of development studies, regional economics and Asian studies. It will be of particular value to those on courses concerned with economic and regional integration.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Masahisa Fujita, Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagai PART I: FACTS AND THEORIES 1. A History of De Facto Economic Integration in East Asia Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagai 2. Analytical Framework for East Asian Integration (1): Industrial Agglomeration and Concentrated Dispersion Koji Nishikimi and Ikuo Kuroiwa 3. Analytical Framework for East Asian Integration (2): Evolution of Industrial Location and Regional Disparity Koji Nishikimi and Ikuo Kuroiwa PART II: INTEGRATION (1): PRODUCTION NETWORKS AND INNOVATION 4. International Production/Distribution Networks in East Asia Mitsuyo Ando 5. Theories on FDI and the Behavior of MNEs in East Asia Ho Yeon Kim and Toshitaka Gokan 6. Productivity, R&D, and Intellectual Property Rights in East Asia and India Kensuke Kubo PART III: INTEGRAION (2): AGRICULTURE, SERVICES, LABOR, AND MONEY 7. Agricultural Issues Related to East Asia’s Economic Integration Masayoshi Honma 8. Services Trade and Investment Liberalization Christopher Findlay 9. Economic Integration and International Migration in East Asia Tomohiro Machikita 10. Monetary Integration in East Asia Eiji Ogawa and Kentaro Kawasaki PART IV: DRIVERS OF INTEGRATION 11. Institutional Building for Economic Integration in East Asia: A Brief History Jiro Okamoto 12. Institutions and Policy Coordination for Further Integration Daisuke Hiratsuka 13. Economic Integration and the Expansion of Trade and Transport Networks Ikumo Isono 14. Infrastructure Connectivity for East Asia’s Economic Integration Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay PART V: COHESION AND SUSTAINABILITY 15. Economic Integration and Regional Disparities in East Asia Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Wei Zhao 16. Economic Integration and Poverty Hosaki Kono 17. Energy Bottlenecks and Cooperation Nobuhiro Horii 18. Trade and the Environment Michikazu Kojima and Etsuyo Michida 19. New Challenges and Directions for East Asian Integration Masahisa Fujita, Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagai Index
£158.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Why Poverty Persists Poverty Dynamics in Asia and
Book SynopsisThis edited book analyses what traps people in chronic poverty, and what allows them to escape from it, using long-term panel surveys from six Asian and African countries. Graduate students of development economics and development studies will also find much to interest them.Trade Review. . . this volume's great merits - namely, contributing to the policy dialogue with evidence from a collection of country studies and guiding all those interested in analyzing poverty dynamics on the method for doing so. It is not surprising that no previous book has ever achieved this contribution, because only recently, longitudinal micro-level panel data has become available for exploring poverty dynamics. All efforts expended to collect such data and provide an appropriate analysis based on it should be respected, and it is hoped that further efforts to do so will produce a sequel to this fascinating and readable volume. --Yuya Kudo, The Developing EconomiesTen years ago Bob Baulch and John Hoddinott drew our attention to the phenomenon of 'poverty dynamics' - an insight into the unpredictability of poor people's livelihoods that had profound implications for poverty thinking and policy, forcing a rethink of static conceptualisations and measurement and raising challenges for targeting anti-poverty programmes. In this new volume, Baulch and colleagues enrich this understanding with rigorous analysis of panel datasets from six countries in Africa and Asia. Most impressively, this illuminating collection by technical microeconometricians is equally accessible to non-technical readers, which effectively communicates its important messages to development policy-makers and practitioners --Stephen Devereux, University of Sussex, UKWhy Poverty Persists significantly advances our understanding of the temporal dimensions of poverty. Its judicious mix of new evidence and improved methods offers new insights into why some people remain mired in poverty and the forces that keep them there. All those interested in combating poverty - academics, donors and those working in the non-governmental organizations - will learn from the carefully constructed African and Asian case studies presented. --John Hoddinott, International Food Policy Research InstituteTable of ContentsContents: Foreword David Hulme 1. Overview: Poverty Dynamics and Persistence in Asia and Africa Bob Baulch 2. Poverty Transitions, Shocks and Consumption in Rural Bangladesh, 1996–97 to 2006–07 Agnes R. Quisumbing 3. A Poor Life? Chronic Poverty and Downward Mobility in Rural Ethiopia, 1994 to 2004 Stefan Dercon and Catherine Porter 4. The Determinants and Consequences of Chronic and Transient Poverty in Nepal, 1995–96 to 2003–04 Saurav Dev Bhatta and Suman K. Sharma 5. Poverty Dynamics in Rural Sindh, Pakistan, 1987–88 to 2004–05 Hari Ram Lohano 6. Poverty Traps and Structural Poverty in South Africa: Reassessing the Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, 1993 to 2004 Julian May, Ingrid Woolard and Bob Baulch 7. Poverty Dynamics in Vietnam, 2002 to 2006 Bob Baulch and Vu Hoang Dat 8. Chronic Poverty: What is to be Done? Bob Baulch Index
£111.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Managing Macroeconomic Policies for Sustainable
Book SynopsisThe authors expertly reveal a model-based analysis of economic development and environmental issues with policy prescriptions for enhancing sustainable development. In light of these concerns, the authors analyse a range of economic and environmental issues, and propose policy recommendations that would enhance sustainable economic growth.Trade ReviewThese experienced economists use CGE modelling to analyse the consequences of significant contemporary economic and environmental policies in several Asia-Pacific countries and in Africa. This has not been done previously for several of the economies concerned. This path-breaking, economy-wide study assesses policies relating to agricultural development, trade and industrial development, energy, greenhouse gases and climate change. This readable book should appeal to a wide audience, including students, policy-makers and researchers. - --Clem Tisdell, University of Queensland, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Computable General Equilibrium Models 3. The Boom (or Gloom) of Papua New Guinea 4. Macroeconomic Reforms in Fiji 5. Trade Policy in the Pacific: Which is the Best Way Forward? 6. An Analysis of Renewable Energy Policy in Thailand 7. An Analysis of Australian Greenhouse Gas Policy 8. Impacts of Climate Change on Agricultural Productivity: A Comparison of Africa and the Rest of the World Index
£90.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Impact of the Economic Crisis on East Asia
Book SynopsisThis insightful book explores the economic conditions and policy response of four major East Asian economies in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis.Table of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND FINANCIAL CRISIS 1. The Global Financial Crisis: Lessons for Taiwan Sheng-Cheng Hu 2. A Perspective on the US Dollar after the Current Financial Crisis: Lessons from the Fall of the Pound Sterling and the Gold Standard after World War I Lee-Rong Wang 3. De-Privatization? Case Studies of Government Banks’ Performance in Developing Countries During the Financial Crisis Chung-Hua Shen and Chih-Yung Lin PART II: IMPACTS, CONSEQUENCES AND POLICY RESPONSES 4. Why World Exports are so Susceptible to the Economic Crisis: The Prevailing ‘Export Overshooting’ Phenomenon, with Particular Reference to Taiwan Bih Jane Liu 5. The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Taiwanese Economy and its Industrial Policy in Response Jiann-Chyuan Wang and Chia-Hui Lin 6. The American Crisis and Korean Financial Distress Un Chan Chung 7. Why Was Japan Hit So Hard by the Global Financial Crisis? Masahiro Kawai and Shinji Takagi 8. China’s Policy Responses to the Global Financial Crisis Yongding Yu PART III: POLICY CONSTRAINTS 9. Fiscal Discipline in the Recovery from a Global Financial Crisis Chih-Chin Ho, Yu-Shan Hsu and Ching-Shin Mao 10. A Challenge to Sustainable Development: The Dual Crisis of Energy and the Economy Daigee Shaw and Pi Chen Index
£95.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Culture and Economic Action
Book SynopsisThis edited volume, a collection of both theoretical essays and empirical studies, presents an Austrian economics perspective on the role of culture in economic action. The authors illustrate that culture cannot be separated from economic action, but that it is in fact part of all decision-making.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Laura E. Grube and Virgil Henry Storr PART I THEORIZING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY 2. Economists Should Study Culture Virgil Henry Storr 3. The Discovery and Interpretation of Profit Opportunities: Culture and the Kirznerian Entrepreneur Don Lavoie 4. The Determinants of Entrepreneurial Alertness and the Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs Virgil Henry Storr and Arielle John 5. Markets as an Extension of Culture Emily Chamlee-Wright 6. Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics Peter J. Boettke, Christopher J. Coyne and Peter T. Leeson 7. How does Culture Influence Economic Development? Don Lavoie and Emily Chamlee-Wright 8. Context Matters: The Importance of Time and Place in Economic Narratives Virgil Henry Storr 9. A Critical Appraisal of the Concept of Cultural Capital Virgil Henry Storr 10. Culture as a Constitution Arielle John 11. Weber’s Spirit of Capitalism and the Bahamas’ Junkanoo Ethic Virgil Henry Storr PART II UNDERSTANDING ECONOMIC LIFE BY USING CULTURE 12. Pastor Response in Post-Katrina New Orleans: Navigating the Cultural Economic Landscape Emily Chamlee-Wright 13. National Cultures, Economic Action and the Homogeneity Problem. Insights from the Case of Romania Paul Dragos Aligica and Aura Matei 14. Between Community and Society: Political Attitudes in Transition Countries Petrik Runst 15. Subalternity and Entrepreneurship. Tales of Marginalized but Enterprising Characters, Oppressive Settings and Haunting Plots Virgil Henry Storr and Bridget Colon 16. Indigenous African Institutions and Economic Development Emily Chamlee-Wright 17. The Role of Culture in the Persistence of Traditional Leadership: Evidence from Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa Laura E. Grube 18. Network Closure, Group Identity and Attitudes toward Merchants Ryan Langrill and Virgil Henry Storr 19. The Cultural and Political Economy of Drug Prohibition Kyle W. O’Donnell 20. Cultural and Institutional Co-determination: the Case of Legitimacy in Exchange in Diablo II Solomon Stein Index
£142.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Sustainable Development Planning
Book SynopsisThe thoroughly revised second edition of this authoritative Handbook, complete with new chapters, comprehensively examines the current status and future directions of model-based systems in decision support and their application to sustainable development planning.Trade ReviewAcclaim for the first edition:‘The Handbook of Sustainable Development Planning is perfect for readers in different professions who deal with planning and development management. It contains interesting theoretical considerations, provokes discussion, and provides new perspectives for the analysis of sustainable development processes. The cases presented illustrate the complexity of the issues relating to sustainable development and show how modeling can support policy and decision making processes.’ -- Miroslaw Grochowski, Geographia PolonicaTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: MODELLING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 1. Application of Decision Support Tools in Sustainable Development Planning: Review and Analysis M.A. Quaddus and M.A.B. Siddique 2. Modelling Sustainable Development Ian Moffatt 3. Measuring Sustainable Development Ian Moffatt 4. Modelling Long-term Sustainability Kaoru Yamaguchi 5. Economics, Ecology and GMOs: Sustainability, Precaution and Related Issues Clem Tisdell PART II: CASE STUDIES Environmental Management 6. Decision Support for Environmental Disaster Planning Aybüke Aurum, Meliha Handzic and Christine Van Toorn 7. Using Data Envelopment Analysis for Ecoefficiency Evaluation Joseph Sarkis and Srinivas Talluri Mining 8. Hierarchical Framework for Evaluating Mine Projects for Sustainability: A Case Study from India M.A. Quaddus and Kampan Mukherjee Energy Management 9. Resources, Pollution and Sustainable Energy Policies: The Case of Pakistan Hassan Qudrat-Ullah Land and Water Management 10. Modeling Sustainable Water Prices Pawel Bartoszczuk Agriculture 11. Dynamics and Sustainability of Mediterranean Traditional Irrigated Lands Julia Martínez Fernández, Miguel Angel Esteve Selma, Isabel Banos, Francisca Carreño and Angeles Moreno Aquaculture 12. Aquaculture and Sustainable Development: Allowing for Environmental Externalities and Common-pool Resources Clem Tisdell Infrastructure 13. Decision Support Systems for Ecosystems Management: A Singerian Approach to Urban Infrastructure Decision Making James F. Courtney, Sandra Richardson and David Paradice 14. Infrastructure Development as a Policy Lever for Sustainable Development Khalid Saeed and Honggang Xu PART III: FUTURE DIRECTIONS 15. Sustainable Development Planning and DSS Tools: What’s Next? M.A.B. Siddique and M.A. Quaddus Index
£172.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Sustainable Development Evaluation and
Book SynopsisThis pathbreaking book contributes to the discourse of evidence-based policy-making. It does so by combining the two issues of policy evaluation and sustainable development linking both to the policy-cycle.Trade Review‘Compared to other collections in this ?eld, Sustainable Development, Evaluation and Policy-Making, Theory, Practise and Quality Assurance is straightforward in its style and writing. . . There are no strange hypotheses, no jargon, no digressions, and no endless dis-cussion. The quality of the argumentation deployed here is impressive: the notes, ?gures, and remarks about research results are detailed and carefully crafted.’ -- Yves Laberge, Science & Public Policy‘This thought-provoking and wide-ranging handbook covers a very wide range of multidisciplinary approaches to sustainable development and is a worthy addition to the bookshelf of those working in this area, whether they be evaluators, researchers, students or indeed the policy-makers themselves.’ -- Keith Dawson, Experimental AgricultureTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Frieder Rubik, Anneke von Raggamby and Anna Hirschbeck PART I: PERCEPTION OF SUSTAINABILITY PROBLEMS 1. Understanding Sustainability Evaluation and its Contributions to Policy-Making Reinhard Stockmann 2. How to Select Policy-Relevant Indicators for Sustainable Development Frank J. Dietz and Albert H. Hanemaaijer 3. Should Evaluation be Revisited for Sustainable Development? Wolfgang Meyer PART II: POLICY FORMATION: THE ROLE OF EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT 4. A Basic Roadmap for Sustainability Assessments: The SIMPLE Methodology Candice Stevens 5. Political Challenges in Policy-Level Evaluation for Sustainable Development: The Case of Trade Policy Clive George and Colin Kirkpatrick 6. Integrated Approaches for Ex-Ante Impact Assessment Tools: The Example of Land Use Katharina Helming, Ignacio de la Flor and Katharina Diehl 7. Politics of (Non-)Knowledge: Problems of Evaluation, Validity and Legitimacy Stefan Böschen PART III: POLICY IMPLEMENTATION: SUSTAINABILITY EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS IN DIFFERENT APPLICATION AREAS 8. How Informed Should Decisions Be? Stephen White and Jakub Koniecki 9. Impact Assessment in the European Union: The Continuation of Politics by Other Means? Anne C.M. Meuwese 10. Science-Policy Interface and the Role of Impact Assessments in the Case of Biofuels Bernd Hirschl, Timo Kaphengst, Anna Neumann and Katharina Umpfenbach PART IV: POLICY REFORMULATION: MONITORING AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 11. Indicators as an Appraisal Technology: Framework for Analysing the Policy Influence of the UK Energy Sector Indicators Markku Lehtonen PART V: QUALITY AND EVALUATION 12. Quality Requirements for Sustainability Evaluations Anneke von Raggamby, Frieder Rubik, Doris Knoblauch and Rebecca Stecker 13. Bellagio SusTainability Assessment and Measurement Principles (BellagioSTAMP) – Significance and Examples from International Environmental Outlooks Jan Bakkes 14. Evaluation Quality in the Context of Sustainability Thomas Widmer 15. Developing and Mapping a Community for Evaluating Sustainable Development André Martinuzzi Index
£116.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Why Poverty Persists Poverty Dynamics in Asia and
Book SynopsisThis edited book analyses what traps people in chronic poverty, and what allows them to escape from it, using long-term panel surveys from six Asian and African countries. Graduate students of development economics and development studies will also find much to interest them.Trade Review. . . this volume's great merits - namely, contributing to the policy dialogue with evidence from a collection of country studies and guiding all those interested in analyzing poverty dynamics on the method for doing so. It is not surprising that no previous book has ever achieved this contribution, because only recently, longitudinal micro-level panel data has become available for exploring poverty dynamics. All efforts expended to collect such data and provide an appropriate analysis based on it should be respected, and it is hoped that further efforts to do so will produce a sequel to this fascinating and readable volume. --Yuya Kudo, The Developing EconomiesTen years ago Bob Baulch and John Hoddinott drew our attention to the phenomenon of 'poverty dynamics' - an insight into the unpredictability of poor people's livelihoods that had profound implications for poverty thinking and policy, forcing a rethink of static conceptualisations and measurement and raising challenges for targeting anti-poverty programmes. In this new volume, Baulch and colleagues enrich this understanding with rigorous analysis of panel datasets from six countries in Africa and Asia. Most impressively, this illuminating collection by technical microeconometricians is equally accessible to non-technical readers, which effectively communicates its important messages to development policy-makers and practitioners --Stephen Devereux, University of Sussex, UKWhy Poverty Persists significantly advances our understanding of the temporal dimensions of poverty. Its judicious mix of new evidence and improved methods offers new insights into why some people remain mired in poverty and the forces that keep them there. All those interested in combating poverty - academics, donors and those working in the non-governmental organizations - will learn from the carefully constructed African and Asian case studies presented. --John Hoddinott, International Food Policy Research InstituteTable of ContentsContents: Foreword David Hulme 1. Overview: Poverty Dynamics and Persistence in Asia and Africa Bob Baulch 2. Poverty Transitions, Shocks and Consumption in Rural Bangladesh, 1996–97 to 2006–07 Agnes R. Quisumbing 3. A Poor Life? Chronic Poverty and Downward Mobility in Rural Ethiopia, 1994 to 2004 Stefan Dercon and Catherine Porter 4. The Determinants and Consequences of Chronic and Transient Poverty in Nepal, 1995–96 to 2003–04 Saurav Dev Bhatta and Suman K. Sharma 5. Poverty Dynamics in Rural Sindh, Pakistan, 1987–88 to 2004–05 Hari Ram Lohano 6. Poverty Traps and Structural Poverty in South Africa: Reassessing the Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, 1993 to 2004 Julian May, Ingrid Woolard and Bob Baulch 7. Poverty Dynamics in Vietnam, 2002 to 2006 Bob Baulch and Vu Hoang Dat 8. Chronic Poverty: What is to be Done? Bob Baulch Index
£33.95
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Understanding Economic Development A Global
Book SynopsisThis fascinating book considers one of the most important problems in economics: the inception of modern economic development.Trade Review'An invaluable survey of the literature on growth. Colin White argues persuasively and expertly that any attempt to solve the profound mystery of economic growth at the large scales of world history must move beyond the limited vision of neo-classical economic theory, and incorporate the narrative methods and perspectives of history as well. This is a superb overview and critique of contemporary attempts to explain economic growth, and a perceptive re-examination of the whole issue of growth in human history.' -- David Christian, Macquarie University, Australia'Colin White transcends a number of false dichotomies in this work. He shows that we need both theory and history in order to comprehend the transition to modern economic growth. He appreciates that this transition was neither inevitable as many theorists argue nor entirely contingent as historical treatments often suggest. He argues that advice to present-day less developed countries should combine a general understanding of the process of transition with detailed analysis of the history and conditions of the country in question. He appreciates that it makes sense to speak of an Industrial Revolution while also recognizing that this was a gradual process that in turn built upon even more gradual changes in earlier centuries in the British economy. Less obviously but importantly he realizes that we can best understand economic growth if we recognize the limitations of each scholarly approach in order to integrate the best of these.' -- Rick Szostak, University of Alberta, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction: Theory and History 1. The Role of Theory and History in Explaining Modern Economic Development 2. The Conventional Wisdom of the Economist 3. The Optimist’s View: Convergence 4. Introducing Real Time with a Narrative Part II: Ultimate Causes: A Fixed or Malleable Context 5. Resources as a Stimulant or Constraint: The Role of Geography 6. Geography and Beyond: The Importance of Risk Environments 7. Human Capital: Education, Health and Aptitude 8. The Institutional Setting: Government, Market and Civil Society Part III: The Driving Forces 9. Innovation as a Prime Mover 10. Government Provides the Context: Motivation and Policies Part IV: Devising Appropriate Narratives 11. Release from the Malthusian Trap 12. Continuity and Discontinuity: The Meaning of the Industrial Revolution 13. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union: The Failed Experiment Part V: Conclusions 14. Causes and Complexity Bibliography Index
£48.95
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Making Capitalism in Rural China
Book SynopsisThrough this detailed consideration of the impacts of development on the people who live in those places, he examines whether these changes represent the emergence of capitalism or a transition, develops a theory of relationships between economy and daily life and questions the very nature of Chinese capitalism.Trade Review‘Webber is a great communicator readily challenging dogmas and opening up new and alternative ways of seeing and reading. His writing is lively, captivating, and jargon-free. . . It is undeniably an important, persuasive, and highly readable contribution to the scholarship on contemporary Chinese economy and society. -- C. Cindy Fan, Journal of Regional Science‘Webber’s comprehensive analyses of the political, economic, social and, not least, geographical factors at stake in each specific locality that he has visited make this book thought-provoking and inspiring reading. It is warmly recommended to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of socioeconomic change in rural China.’ -- Stig Thøgersen, The China Journal‘Michael Webber’s excellent study of the diverse ways in which the market and state have impacted upon rural China is based on a decade and a half of annual research visits to far-flung areas of the Chinese countryside. Webber writes well, and he is able to convey a good sense of the stresses to which villagers were subjected in the locales he studied.’ -- Jonathan Unger, China QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents: Principal Leaders in the Central Government Since the 1982 Constitution 1. Development is Not a Dinner Party 2. Rich Wang’s Village: Marketing the Dairy Economy 3. Buying Out Collectives and Farms 4. ‘We Never Forcibly Evict Anybody, Except Those Who Refuse to Move’ 5. ‘May God Bless Our Injured Land...’ 6. Water Wallies 7. ‘The Miracle of Creation’ 8. Ethnicity, Poverty, Migration 9. Development is the Irrefutable Fact References Index
£115.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Sustainable Development Drivers The Role of
Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book explores both the origins and future of the global sustainable development movement, and provides an original overview of the driving forces of sustainable development, including market forces and past and future trends.Trade Review'This book is state-of-the-art. The authors present refreshing ideas about sustainability. It is a challenging approach to the conceptualization, measurement and ranking of sustainable development. This goes far beyond technicalities, discussing political, managerial and spiritual aspects of societal change.' --Jan Pronk, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: THE CORE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 1. Sustainable Development: Taking Responsibility for the Whole Kees Zoeteman 2. A Short History of Sustainable Development Kees Zoeteman and Jaco Tavenier 3. The Mission Reflected in the Sustainable Development Concept: Uplifting Society Kees Zoeteman and Hans Mommaas 4. Can Sustainable Development be Measured? Kees Zoeteman PART II: LEADERSHIP AND INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT 5. Leadership and Sustainability Attitudes in Personal Life Kees Zoeteman 6. Individual and Organizational Development Phases Towards Sustainability Margarete van den Brink PART III: NATIONS, BUSINESSES AND MARKETS 7. Ranking of Nations Kees Zoeteman, Wouter Kersten and Lieke van de Voort 8. Drivers of Corporate Social Responsibility Johan Graafland and Hugo Smid 9. Understanding Differences in Business Sectors Kees Zoeteman 10. Sustainability Attitudes in Local Area Development in the Netherlands Jules Hinssen PART IV: NGOs AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 11. NGOs and Sustainability Attitudes Wouter Kersten, Elena Akdanova and Kees Zoeteman 12. The Sustainability Movement Paul van Seters 13. The Case of the Center for Human Emergence Netherlands Lisette Schuitemaker, Peter Merry and Anne-Marie Voorhoeve PART V: PAST AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS 14. Building Consensus for Sustainable Development Lawrence Susskind and Mattijs van Maasakkers 15. Trends, Crises and Sustainability Kees Zoeteman 16. The Conflict of Our Time Otto Scharmer Index
£126.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Chinas Economic Development
Book SynopsisWritten by distinguished Chinese academics, this book provides a unique and rare insight into the development of the modern Chinese economy. The book concludes that following three decades of high economic growth, China now faces great challenges for sustainable growth, and the institutions of China’s economy have reached a critical point.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: The Reform and Opening-up of a Large, Developing Country 2. Political and Social Foundations of Economic Development 3. Urban and Rural Economic Development During the Process of Urbanization and Industrialization 4. Industrial Agglomeration in the Process of Globalization and Regional Economic Development 5. Transitions of Public Services and Government Responsibilities During the Marketization Process 6. Developmental Imbalances and Mechanisms for Improving the Market System 7. Appropriate Institutions and Sustainable Growth: China’s Development and its Worldwide Significance References Index
£95.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Industrial Clusters Upgrading and Innovation in
Book SynopsisThis lucid and informative book analyzes the problem of clusters in transition through studies of agglomerations at different stages of development in various East Asian countries.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Masatsugu Tsuji and Akifumi Kuchiki PART I: BACKGROUND AND CIRCUMSTANCES 2. On the Sequence of Steps in Clustering Policy for Creating Spatial Advantages Akifumi Kuchiki and Toshitaka Gokan 3. Promoting Regional Integration through Industrial Cluster Policy in CLMV Cities Akifumi Kuchiki 4. Export Processing Zones and the WTO SCM Agreement Motoyoshi Suzuki 5. Thai Regional Free Trade Agreements (FTA) and their Effect on the Automotive Industry in Thailand Somrote Komolavanij, Chawalit Jeenanunta, Pornpimol Chongphaisal and Veeris Ammarapala PART II: CLUSTER FORMATION FOR UPGRADING AND INNOVATION 6. Case Study of Laos: Prospects for a Vientiane Special Economic Zone Motoyoshi Suzuki 7. Industrial Upgrading: Cluster Development in the Malaysian Electronics Industry Saha Dhevan Meyanathan 8. The Interaction between the High-tech Industrial Cluster and its Surrounding Universities: The Case of Wuhan ‘Optical Valley’ Industrial Cluster Bei Hu and Rongzhi Liu 9. Interaction between Transnational Corporations and Local Government on Industry Clusters in China: The Case of the Automobile Industry Xiyou He PART III: CLUSTERING AND INNOVATION 10. Effects of Technological Networks of Small and Medium-sized Firms on their R&D Activities in Shihwa Industrial Complex, Korea: Toward Industrial Cluster Formation and Regional Integration Yoshihiro Kameyama 11. Agglomeration and Local Innovation Networks in Japanese SMEs: Analysis of the Information Linkage Masatsugu Tsuji and Syoichi Miyahara Index
£111.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Financial Crisis and Developing Countries
Book SynopsisThe Financial Crisis and Developing Countries is an invaluable discussion and analysis of the regional and country specific impacts of the financial crisis in both emerging markets and developing countries.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: Crisis? What Crisis? For Whom? Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Arjan de Haan and Rolph van der Hoeven PART I: THE CRISIS AND CONCEPTS OF DEVELOPMENT 2. Re-orienting Development in Uncertain Times Jayati Ghosh 3. How Have Poor Women and Men Experienced the Global Economic Crisis: What Have We Learned? Duncan Green and Richard King 4. After the Gold Rush: Prospects for Africa, Economic Recovery and Long-term Growth Fantu Cheru 5. A Historical Ethnography of Recessions: Crises in Yogyakarta Ben White PART II: HETERODOX (POLITICAL) ECONOMIC INTERPRETATIONS 6. Chinese Savings Gluts or Northern Financialisation? The Ideological Expediency of Crisis Narratives Andrew Martin Fischer 7. Short- and Long-run Macroeconomic Effects of Keynesian Trade Policies in the Presence of Debt Servicing Syed Mansoob Murshed 8. FDI Volatility and Development Irene van Staveren 9. Financial Globalization, Current Crisis and Labour in Developing Countries Rolph van der Hoeven PART III: REGIONAL AND COUNTRY EXPERIENCES 10. Impact of the Global Crises (Financial, Economic and Food): The Case of Microfinance in Latin America Reynaldo Marconi and Harry Clemens 11. Crisis, Employment and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa Mahmood Messkoub 12. Crisis and Exclusionary Growth in Europe’s ‘East’ Max Spoor 13. The Crisis in South Asia: From Jobless Growth to Jobless Slump? Karin Astrid Siegmann 14. Diamonds are for Never: The Economic Crisis and the Diamond Polishing Industry in India Astha Kapoor 15. Defending Vulnerable Workers in South Africa after the Crisis: What Role for COSATU? Freek B. Schiphorst 16. How China Managed the Impact of the Financial Crisis: Globalization and Public Policy Responses in an Emerging Economy Arjan de Haan and Sen Gong 17. Thailand From Crisis to Crisis: Do We Ever Learn? Karel Jansen PART IV: PREPARING FOR THE NEXT CRISIS? 18. The Global Economic Crisis and the Future of Globalization Rob Vos References Index
£38.90
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Rise of Asia The Flyinggeese Theory of Tandem
Book SynopsisTerutomo Ozawa introduces a newly reformulated theory of âflying-geeseâ economic development, exploring Asiaâs dynamic growth and financial development. This unique book shows how the flying-geese theory can be expanded and applied to both the real- and the financial-sector structural transformation of regionally clustered economies.Trade Review'Ozawa is, in many ways, a political-economy pioneer. . . Ozawa shows his vast understanding of the topic by deconstructing each stage of economic development into small, more precise problems. . . Ozawa's vast economic, historical and philosophical knowledge shines through in this book. . . brings a much needed multi-faceted perspective to the subject of economic development. It is written as clearly as economic theory can be, and although it is clearly intended for an academic (political-economy) readership, it is a useful book for the general public as well.' -- Adelina Bulak, Central European Journal of International and Security Studies'... Ozawa's new book, The Rise of Asia, is a blast of fresh air. . . Turning from the production or real economy to the financial or money economy. . . Ozawa [also] proposes an innovative stages theory of the balance of payments, linked to the stages of the production economy. . . The book, moreover, not only analyzes big trends and big policy issues but does so in remarkably lucid and graceful prose, accessible to undergraduates and the general reader.' -- Robert H. Wade, London School of Economics, Winner of the 2008 Leontief Prize in Economics, reviewed in Asia Policy'Ozawa again breaks new ground in reformulating the flying-geese theory. . . This thought-provoking book is a must read, together with the previous one, for anyone who adopts the FG frame of reference for understanding of - and research on - the topic of economic development in an age of ever-deepening integration.' -- From the foreword by Kiyoshi KojimaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface Part I: Agenda 1. Is the Flying-Geese Theory Passé – or Still Relevant? Part II: Real-Sector Growth: Industrial Upgrading 2. Akamatsu’s Flying-Geese Theory – in the Rough 3. A Dynamic Stages Model of Structural Upgrading, Industrial Transplantation, and Knowledge Diffusion 4. Comparative Advantage Recycling in Labor-Driven Growth: An Unprecedented Opportunity for the Poor to Rise? 5. Structural Upgrading, Infrastructure Development, and Insatiable Quest for Natural Resources 6. The Asian Model for Latin America? A Tale of Two Regions Part III: Money/Finance Dimension 7. Borrowed Growth: Balance of Payments, Capital Flows, and Development Finance 8. Creating the World in America’s Own Image? Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Regional Impact of National Policies The Case
Book SynopsisResearchers and students in economics, economic history, political science and regional studies, and others interested in the economics of transition to a market system will find this comprehensive collection an invaluable resource.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Werner Baer 2. The Regional Impacts of Juscelino Kubitschek’s Targets Program André Villela 3. Regional Imbalances in Brazil According to Social Inclusion Roberto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque 4. Social Programs, Industrial Deconcentration and the Recent Decrease in Regional Income Inequality in Brazil Raul da Mota Silveira-Neto and Carlos Roberto Azzoni 5. Labor Policies in Brazil Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de Moraes, Fabíola Cristina Ribeiro de Oliveira and Camila Kraide Kretzmann 6. The Impact of Privatization on Brazil’s Regions Edmund Amann and Werner Baer 7. Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in the Regional Development of Brazil Luiz Ricardo Cavalcante and Simone Uderman 8. FDI in Brazil from a Regional Perspective Marcos C. Holanda and André Matos Magalhães 9. Stabilization Policies and Regional Development in Brazil Alexandre Rands Barros 10. The Use of Native Forests versus Economic Growth in Brazil: Is it Possible to Reach a Balance? Carlos José Caetano Bacha 11. Regional Development and Agricultural Expansion in Brazil’s Legal Amazon: The Case of the Mato Grosso Frontier Charles C. Mueller 12. Embrapa: Its Origins and Changes Geraldo B. Martha Jr., Elisio Contini and Eliseu Alves 13. The Regional Impact of Federal Government Programs in Brazil: The Case of Rio de Janeiro Thomas J. Trebat and Nicholas M. Trebat Index
£100.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Innovation and Technological CatchUp
Book SynopsisSince the beginning of the 1990s, the supremacy of `Old World’ countries (France and Italy) in the international wine market has been challenged by new players, such as Australia, Argentina, Chile and South Africa, which are recording stunning performances in terms both of export volume and value.Trade Review'This book takes a fresh look at the innovations that have changed the global wine sector, presenting established thinking in a new light. Building on the world's knowledge base in wine production, the book encourages novel thinking for both Old World and New World producers. The content is topical, current and well written. This is a must-read for anyone with an interest in wine innovation. --Sakkie Pretorius, The Australian Wine Research Institute'This excellent book emerges out of the project ''Innovation and Globalization in the Wine Sector: An International Comparison between Argentina, Chile, Italy and South Africa''. The authors provide a fresh perspective on innovation and technological capabilities in the wine industry, as well as an insightful account of the new growth trajectories of this industry in different contexts. . . this theoretically informed and empirically rich collection has clearly succeeded in highlighting some of the key features of innovation and technological catching-up in the wine industry in different countries. . . The book will be of considerable interest to practitioners, policymakers and scholars of innovation processes and to specialists of the wine industry more generally.' --David Doloreux, Regional Studies'[T]he editors have produced a book that contributes to our knowledge of the significance of innovation for the success of the New Wine World countries. It helps us to better understand the drivers of the most recent episode of wine grape area expansion and wine production growth. . . the book deserves a place on the shelves or data files of sociologists, geographers, economists, and policymakers concerned with the evolution of the global wine industry.' --Rolf A.E. Mueller, Journal of Wine EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Innovation and Technological Catch-up in the Wine Industry: An Introduction Elisa Giuliani, Andrea Morrison and Roberta Rabellotti PART I: CATCHING UP IN THE WINE INDUSTRY 2. Catching-up Trajectories in the Wine Sector Lucia Cusmano, Andrea Morrison and Roberta Rabellotti 3. The Changing Geography of Science in Wine: Evidence from Emerging Countries Lorenzo Cassi, Andrea Morrison and Roberta Rabellotti 4. Contributions of the Innovation System to Australia’s Wine Industry Growth Kym Anderson PART II: DRIVERS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CATCH-UP IN THE WINE INDUSTRY: UNIVERSITIES, PUBLIC–PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS, RESEARCHERS AND FIRMS 5. University Involvement in Wine Region Development: A Comparative Case Study between Universidad de Talca (Chile) and Universidad de Cuyo (Argentina) Martin Kunc and Scott Tiffin 6. Recombining to Compete: Public–Private Institutions, Shifting Networks and the Remaking of the Argentine Wine Sector Gerald A. McDermott and Rafael A. Corredoira 7. Bridging Researchers and the Openness of Wine Innovation Systems in Chile and South Africa Elisa Giuliani and Roberta Rabellotti 8. Knowledge, Science and Interactions in South Africa’s Wine Industry Jo Lorentzen 9. What Have we Learnt from the Wine Industry? Some Concluding Remarks Elisa Giuliani, Andrea Morrison and Roberta Rabellotti Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Economic Development as a Learning Process
Book SynopsisUntil recently, economists studying economic development have tended to consider it as a universal process, or focussed their attention on common aspects.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Franco Malerba and Richard R. Nelson 2. Explaining Divergent Stories of Catch-up in the Telecommunication Equipment Industry in Brazil, China, India and Korea Keun Lee, Sunil Mani and Qing Mu 3. The Global Computer Software Sector Jorge Niosi, Suma Athreye and Ted Tschang 4. Explaining Variations in Semiconductor Catch-up Strategies in China, Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan Rajah Rasiah, Xin-Xin Kong, Yeo Lin and Jaeyong Song 5. Catching up in the Pharmaceutical Sector: Lessons from Case Studies of India and Brazil Shyama V. Ramani and Samira Guennif 6. The Agro-food Sector in Catching-up Countries: A Comparative Study of Four Cases Shulin Gu, John O. Adeoti, Ana Célia Castro, Jeffrey Orozco and Rafael Díaz 7. Conclusions Franco Malerba and Richard R. Nelson Index
£111.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Security and Development Global Development
Book SynopsisThe overall nexus between security and development poses some formidable questions about the multiple forms of violence which afflict the international community: Why are some places peaceful whilst others are violent? This important book tackles some of the main security challenges facing the international development community today.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Security and Development: Delving Deeper into the Nexus George Mavrotas 2. Security and Development: Some Reflections Michael Spence 3. Globalization and the Challenges of Inclusion and Climate Change Graeme Wheeler 4. Prevention of Threats and Emergency Responses: Challenges to Policy Making Paul Collier 5. The Conflict–Development Nexus: A Survey of Armed Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1980–2005 Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Maximillian Ashwill, Elizabeth Chiappa and Carol Messineo 6. National Security: Deterring and Surviving Civil Conflicts Marta Reynal-Querol 7. Violence, Development and the Rule of Law Martin Krygier and Whit Mason 8. Securing Against Natural Disasters: Better Preparedness and Better Development Ajay Chhibber and Rachid Laajaj 9. Infectious Diseases: Responses to the Security Threat Without Borders Mark Gersovitz Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd What Makes Poor Countries Poor
Book SynopsisThis important book focuses on the idea that institutions matter for development, asking what lessons we have learned from past reform efforts, and what role lawyers can play in this field.Trade Review'Law and development is a difficult field. It is at once multi-disciplinary and comparative; historical and policy driven; theoretical and empirical; positive and normative. Here at long last is a book that provides a masterful overview and critical analysis that will make this field accessible to students and teachers alike.' --Katharina Pistor, Columbia Law School, US'What Makes Poor Countries Poor? is an intelligent and helpful manual, which introduces the reader to the manifold literature of law and development. . . It is refreshing to read about prevailing social attitude, day-to-day interactions of the citizenry with the legal system, collective expectations with respect to public servants, or de jure and de facto differences. This book reflects deep understanding of the real issues that matter for development and should be of interest not only to students and scholars interested in the institutions -development link and to practitioners, but to all social scientists that enjoy broad and interdisciplinary views on relevant topics for development.' --Nadia Von jacobi, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities'This book is a very good starting point of condensed information for lawyers and others involved in development of poor countries. It is an umbrella view of the situation and does a good job of giving a taster and overview of the matter.' --Sally Ramage, The Criminal LawyerTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Ends and Means of Development 2. The Rule of Law and Development: In Search of the Holy Grail 3. The Property Rights/Contract Rights Development Nexus 4. Political Regimes, Ethnic Conflict and Development 5. Public Administration, Corruption and Development 6. State-owned Enterprises, Privatization and Development 7. International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and Development 8. Foreign Aid and Development: The Aid-Institutions Paradox 9. Conclusion: In Search of Knowledge Index
£105.00
East European Monographs The Europeanization of Portuguese Democracy
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The Peterson Institute for International Economics Greening the GATT Trade Environment and the
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The Peterson Institute for International Economics Controlling Currency Mismatches in Emerging
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The Peterson Institute for International Economics Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote
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