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Indian Development
Selected Regional Perspectives
Inbunden, 1997
3918 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.India is a country of great diversity. The commonly used indicators of `quality of …
The Developer's Dilemma
Structural Transformation, Inequality Dynamics, and Inclusive Growth
Av Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Kunal Sen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1586 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Developing countries seek economic development which is broad-based or inclusive in …
The Job Ladder
Transforming Informal Work and Livelihoods in Developing Countries
Av Gary S. Fields, T. H. Gindling m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1586 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Based on studies of a range of countries in the Global South, this book examines …
Resources Matter
Ending Poverty While Protecting Nature
Av Tony Addison, Alan Roe
Inbunden, 2024
1314 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and is offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.The extraction and use of natural resources underpins a global economy that provides high …
Tasks, Skills, and Institutions
The Changing Nature of Work and Inequality
Av Carlos Gradín, Piotr Lewandowski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1373 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.The book investigates the trends in earnings inequalities in developing countries …
Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development
A Firm and Household Perspective
Av Oliver Morrissey, Joseph Semboja m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1214 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and is offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This book investigates the performance of firms and households in Tanzania and the …
Social Mobility in Developing Countries
Concepts, Methods, and Determinants
Av Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1932 kr
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Social mobility is the hope of economic development and the mantra of a good society. There are disagreements about what constitutes social mobility, but there is broad agreement that people should have roughly equal chances of success regardless of their economic status at birth. Concerns about …
Institutional Legacies of Violent Conflict
Development and State-Building in the Shadow of Wartime Institutional Change
Inbunden, 2026
1789 kr
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An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This book explores the emergence of wartime governance and its enduring effects on post-conflict …
Social Security in Developing Countries
Av AHMAD ET AL, Ehtisham Ahmad m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
2077 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.The term `social security' has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries …
Commodity Supply Management by Producing Countries
A Case-Study of the Tropical Beverage Crops
Av Alfred Maizels, Robert Bacon m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1091 kr
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The collapse in commodity prices since 1980 has been a major cause of the economic crisis in a large number of developing countries. This book investigates whether the commodity-producing countries, by joint action, could have prevented the price collapse by appropriate supply management. The …
Trade Policy, Industrialization, and Development
New Perspectives
Av HELLEINER, Gerald K. Helleiner
Inbunden, 1992
2517 kr
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This book investigates the ways in which the characteristics of a developing country's domestic industrial sector – for example, oligopolistic markets, the position of foreign enterprises, and the acquisition of modern technologies – affect its chances of industrializing far enough to engage in …
Financial Openness and National Autonomy
Opportunities and Constraints
Av Tariq Banuri, Juliet B. Schor
Inbunden, 1992
1235 kr
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WIDERThe World Institute for Development Economics Research, established in 1984, started work in Helsinki in 1985, with the financial support of the Government of Finland. Its principal purpose is to help identify and meet the need for policy-oriented socio-economic research on pressing global and …
Hunger and Public Action
Häftad, 1991
1041 kr
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This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO). It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open …
Nutrition and Poverty
Inbunden, 1993
4121 kr
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This volume addresses issues arising from the definition and measurement of poverty in terms of nutritional status. A high degree of nutritional deprivation is considered to be an indicator of poverty. Hence the definition of an appropriate nutritional yardstick and its measurement are of crucial …
The Political Economy of Hunger: Political Economy of Hunger
Volume 1: Entitlement and Well-being
Inbunden, 1991
3697 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.WIDER Studies in Development Economics The World Institute for Development …
Political Economy of Hunger
Volume 2: Famine Prevention
Inbunden, 1991
3530 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.WIDERThe World Institute for Development Economics Research, established in 1984, …
The Political Economy of Hunger: Political Economy of Hunger
Volume 3: Endemic Hunger
Inbunden, 1991
4231 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.WIDERThe World Institute for Development Economics Research, established in 1984, …
Wage Labour and Unfreedom in Agriculture
An Indian Case Study
Inbunden, 1991
748 kr
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This book addresses the question of how it is that so much growth and technical change can take place in agriculture and yet leave the position of agricultural labourers relatively unchanged. Much has been written on farmers and employers in LDC agriculture, but little that focuses on employees - …
Dominating Knowledge
Development, Culture, and Resistance
Av Frédérique Apffel Marglin, Stephen A. Marglin
Inbunden, 1990
3040 kr
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This book addresses the role of knowledge in economic development and in resistance to development. It questions the conventional view that development is the application of superior knowledge to the problems of poor countries, and that resistance to development comes out of ignorance and …
The Golden Age of Capitalism
Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience
Av Stephen A. Marglin, Juliet B. Schor
Häftad, 1992
1356 kr
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For some twenty years after the Second World War, Keynesian economic policies in countries of the capitalist West were successful in generating rapid growth with high employment. This `golden age of capitalism' did not survive the economic traumas of the 1970s; nor has the more recent emphasis on …
The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 1
Av Partha Dasgupta, Karl-Göran Mäler
Inbunden, 1997
2399 kr
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Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day to day basis by the allocation and use of primary local resources. Yet `official' development economics has concentrated on headline international issues and only recently begun to take account of the dependence of poor countries on their …
The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 2
Av Partha Dasgupta, Karl-Göran Mäler
Inbunden, 1997
1360 kr
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Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day to day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources. Yet `official' development economics has concentrated on headline international issues and only recently begun to take account of the dependence of poor countries on their …
The Quality of Life
Av Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen
Häftad, 1993
1231 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This book addresses issues of defining and measuring the quality of life. Recent …
The Political Economy of Hunger: Selected Essays
Av Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
932 kr
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An abridged selection of papers from the hardbackHailed in its initial publication as a work with urgent implications for countless lives, Drèze and Sen's The Political Economy of Hunger is the classic analysis of an extraordinary paradox: in a world of food surpluses and satiety, hunger kills …
Decolonizing Knowledge
From Development to Dialogue
Av Marglin Apffel-Marglin, World Institute for Development Economic m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
4277 kr
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Development failures, environmental degradation and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side effects of `externalities'. They are the toxic consequences of pretensions that the modern Western view of knowledge is a universal neutral view, applicable to all people at all times. The …
Women, Culture, and Development
A Study of Human Capabilities
Av Martha C. Nussbaum, Jonathan Glover
Inbunden, 1995
3085 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.BL Distinguished editors and contributorsBL Addresses questions of some urgency for …
Women, Culture, and Development
A Study of Human Capabilities
Av Martha C. Nussbaum, Jonathan Glover
Häftad, 1995
1005 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.BL Distinguished editors and contributorsBL Addresses questions of some urgency for …
The Role of the State in Economic Change
Av Ha-Joon Chang, Robert Rowthorn
Inbunden, 1995
3130 kr
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The role of the state has occupied centre stage in the development of economics as an independent discipline and is one of the most contentious issues addressed by contemporary economists and political economists. The immediate post-war years saw a swing in economic theory towards interventionism, …
Patriarchy and Development
Women's Positions at the End of the Twentieth Century
Av Valentine M. Maghadam, Valentine M. Moghadam
Inbunden, 1996
3223 kr
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At the end of the twentieth century, after four world conferences on women, debates on the impact of economic development on the lives and status of women - including their life-options and opportunities for betterment - continue unresolved. Is patriarchy on the decline, or is it merely its form …
The Economics of Transnational Commons
Av Maler Vercelli Dasgupta, Partha Dasgupta m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
3589 kr
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Transnational commons, cross-border areas without well-defined property rights, have long been ignored in 'official' development economics. This volume redresses the balance by adopting an environmental approach which stresses the importance of shared natural resources and the links between acute …
