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Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor
Transmission Mechanisms
AvM. Nissanke,E. Thorbecke
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
1 144 kr
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This book examines the various channels and transmission mechanisms, such as greater openness to trade and foreign investment, economic growth, effects on income distribution, technology transfer and labour migration through which the process of globalization affects different dimensions of poverty in the developing world.
Human Well-Being
Concept and Measurement
AvM. McGillivray
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
1 332 kr
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This book provides insights into how human well-being could be better defined and empirically assessed. It takes stock of and reviews various concepts and measures and provides recommendations for future practice and research.
Fiscal Policy for Development
Poverty, Reconstruction and Growth
AvT. Addison,A. Roe
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 712 kr
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Fiscal policy is critical to the development of poor countries. This book provides both a comprehensive and balanced guide to the current policy debate and new results on the development impact of fiscal policies.
Advancing Development
Core Themes in Global Economics
AvG. Mavrotas,A. Shorrocks
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
1 663 kr
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This book reflects on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen over the next two decades. As well as studying development economics in retrospect, the volume explores the current debates and challenges and looks forward at the problems that affect the global capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Advancing Development
Core Themes in Global Economics
AvG. Mavrotas,A. Shorrocks
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 663 kr
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This book reflects on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen over the next two decades. As well as studying development economics in retrospect, the volume explores the current debates and challenges and looks forward at the problems that affect the global capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development
AvG. Mavrotas
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
1 144 kr
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This book provides insights into the evolving debate regarding the mobilization of domestic resources and the crucial role that financial development can and should play in this regard, exploring aspects of the financial development–domestic resource mobilization nexus, including country case studies.
Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction
AvBasudeb Guha-Khasnobis,George Mavrotasm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
1 144 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book explores country case studies and works that detail the exact transmission mechanisms through which financial development can enhance pro-poor development in order to derive best practices in this field. This is an important companion for professionals and policymakers, and also a vital reference source for students.
Globalization and the Poor in Asia
Can Shared Growth be Sustained?
AvM. Nissanke,E. Thorbecke
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
1 144 kr
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Asia is widely regarded as having benefited most from the dynamic growth effect of the recent wave of globalization. By examining mechanisms at work in the globalization–poverty nexus through specific case studies reflecting different settings, the book seeks to find ways to rediscover and resume a pattern of shared growth in Asia.
Development Finance in the Global Economy
The Road Ahead
AvT. Addison,G. Mavrotas
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
1 144 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
A positive chapter has begun in finance for poor countries. Yet progress remains tentative. This book looks at how to make international finance better serve the needs of poor countries and poor people. It contains contributions by economists and political scientists who have been at the centre of the international policy debate.
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
AvM. McGillivray
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
1 144 kr
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This book provides analytical insights into if and how the targets adopted by the international community are likely to be achieved. A key feature of the analysis is the recognition that most of the MDG targets are endogenously related. These inter-dependencies are crucial not only in analysing the MDGs but also devising strategies.
Development Aid
A Fresh Look
AvGeorge Mavrotas,Mark McGillivray
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
1 144 kr
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This book addresses several gaps in knowledge of aid allocation and effectiveness and provides new analytical insights. Topics covered include the interface between aid allocation and perceptions of aid effectiveness, the year-on-year volatility of aid and evaluation of the country-level impacts of aid.
Making Peace Work
The Challenges of Social and Economic Reconstruction
AvT. Addison,T. Brück
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
1 144 kr
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This book provides an insight into some of the main issues that arise in post-conflict economic and social reconstruction, and offers examples of what works, and what does not. It will be of interest to all working on economic and social reconstruction in post-conflict countries, as well as those working on peace and development.
Rise of China and India
Impacts, Prospects and Implications
AvA. Santos-Paulino,G. Wan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 144 kr
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This volume is a timely addition to the emerging literature on the rise of China and India, focusing on how rapid economic growth and geopolitical changes in these countries are reshaping the world economy and global governance. It covers issues such as productivity, labor market, trade competition, and energy.
Health Inequality and Development
AvM. McGillivray,I. Duttam. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
576 kr
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This book investigates issues related to health inequality with a particular interest on developing countries. It provides rigorous empirical work on both trends and causal factors behind health inequality, analyzes the implications of health deprivations on poverty traps and suggests practical policies which can be implemented.
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
AvWim Naudé,Wim Naude
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 144 kr
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Leading international scholars provide a timely reconsideration of how and why entrepreneurship matters for economic development, particularly in emerging and developing economies. The book critically dissects the evolving relationship between entrepreneurs and the state.
Economies in Transition
The Long-Run View
AvG. Roland
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 144 kr
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The twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall saw many reflect on the political, economic and social changes of recent years. The legacy of communism and the economic prospects of post-communist countries are rigorously analysed in this stimulating study of the long term consequences of transition.
Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century
Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City
AvD. Rodgers,J. Beallm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
559 kr
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By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.
Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China
Methods and Applications
AvG. Wan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
1 111 kr
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This book explores trends of inequality and poverty in China, identifies their causes and assesses their consequences, analyzing in detail the regional/personal variation in incomes, measures of human wellbeing, the gap between the coastal regions and the interior regions, and urban–rural disparity.
Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
AvBasudeb Guha-Khasnobis,Shabd S. Acharyam. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
1 022 kr
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This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment.
Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies
AvE. Wayne Nafziger,Raimo Väyrynen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
1 663 kr
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Since the end of the Cold War, civil wars and state violence have escalated, resulting in thousands of deaths. This book provides a toolbox for donors, international agencies, and developing countries to prevent humanitarian emergencies. The emphasis is on long term development policies rather than mediation or reconstruction after the conflict ensues. Policies include democratization, reforming institutions, strengthening civil society, improving the state's administrative capability, agrarian reform, accelerating economic growth through stabilization and adjustment, reducing inequalities, and redesigning aid to be more stable.
Non-Traditional Export Promotion in Africa
Experience and Issues
AvG. Helleiner,G. K. Helleinerm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
1 493 kr
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The volume contains original essays by authors who have worked together to derive lessons for African export prospects from the experiences of some of the more successful developing countries in East Asia and Latin America. They present up-to-date data and analysis on non-traditional exporting experience, problems and prospects in a sample of seven Subsaharan African countries.
Poverty, Income Distribution and Well-Being in Asia During the Transition
AvLu Aiguo,Manuel F. Montes
Inbunden, Engelska, 2002
1 111 kr
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The Asian road to the market has generally been seen as a model of success and the object of widespread admiration. This volume evaluates the actual experience and debunks some of the most widespread myths. It does so by identifying the link between alternative transition models, public policies and household responses on the one hand, and key welfare changes on the other. Even in countries experiencing sustained growth, there have been unmistakable signs of deep social strain.
Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor
Transmission Mechanisms
AvM. Nissanke,E. Thorbecke
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 144 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book examines the various channels and transmission mechanisms, such as greater openness to trade and foreign investment, economic growth, effects on income distribution, technology transfer and labour migration through which the process of globalization affects different dimensions of poverty in the developing world.
Human Well-Being
Concept and Measurement
AvM. McGillivray
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 221 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book provides insights into how human well-being could be better defined and empirically assessed. It takes stock of and reviews various concepts and measures and provides recommendations for future practice and research.
Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development
AvG. Mavrotas
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
1 144 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book provides insights into the evolving debate regarding the mobilization of domestic resources and the crucial role that financial development can and should play in this regard, exploring aspects of the financial development–domestic resource mobilization nexus, including country case studies.
Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction
AvBasudeb Guha-Khasnobis,George Mavrotas
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
1 144 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book explores country case studies and works that detail the exact transmission mechanisms through which financial development can enhance pro-poor development in order to derive best practices in this field. This is an important companion for professionals and policymakers, and also a vital reference source for students.
Globalization and the Poor in Asia
Can Shared Growth be Sustained?
AvM. Nissanke,E. Thorbecke
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
1 144 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Asia is widely regarded as having benefited most from the dynamic growth effect of the recent wave of globalization. By examining mechanisms at work in the globalization–poverty nexus through specific case studies reflecting different settings, the book seeks to find ways to rediscover and resume a pattern of shared growth in Asia.
Development Finance in the Global Economy
The Road Ahead
AvT. Addison,G. Mavrotas
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
1 111 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
A positive chapter has begun in finance for poor countries. Yet progress remains tentative. This book looks at how to make international finance better serve the needs of poor countries and poor people. It contains contributions by economists and political scientists who have been at the centre of the international policy debate.
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
AvM. McGillivray
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
1 144 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book provides analytical insights into if and how the targets adopted by the international community are likely to be achieved. A key feature of the analysis is the recognition that most of the MDG targets are endogenously related. These inter-dependencies are crucial not only in analysing the MDGs but also devising strategies.
Making Peace Work
The Challenges of Social and Economic Reconstruction
AvT. Addison,T. Brück
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
1 111 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book provides an insight into some of the main issues that arise in post-conflict economic and social reconstruction, and offers examples of what works, and what does not. It will be of interest to all working on economic and social reconstruction in post-conflict countries, as well as those working on peace and development.

Studies in Development Economics and Policy – serie

Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor

Human Well-Being

Fiscal Policy for Development

Advancing Development

Advancing Development

Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development

Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction

Globalization and the Poor in Asia

Development Finance in the Global Economy

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

Development Aid

Making Peace Work

Rise of China and India

Health Inequality and Development

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Economies in Transition

Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century

Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China

Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies

Non-Traditional Export Promotion in Africa

Poverty, Income Distribution and Well-Being in Asia During the Transition

Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor

Human Well-Being

Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development

Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction

Globalization and the Poor in Asia

Development Finance in the Global Economy

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

Making Peace Work