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An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya
Pollin, Robert; Githinji, Mwangi wa - Edward Elgar
The Kenyan economy has experienced improved economic growth in recent years, and the government has maintained a commitment to generating 500,000 new jobs per year. But the country still faces severe problems of poverty-level employment – people working full-time yet living with their families...
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The Software Industry in Emerging Markets
Commander, Simon (contributor) - Edward Elgar
This book aims to promote an understanding of the origins and dynamics of the software industry in a number of key emerging markets – Brazil, China, India and Israel, and to establish what experiences, if any, are potentially replicable in other prevailing markets. In-depth interviews with...
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Macroeconomic Policies for Sustainable Growth
Munasinghe, Mohan; Raul O’Ryan; Motta, Ronaldo Seroa da; … - Edward Elgar
Macroeconomic policies have come under justifiable scrutiny because of their powerful and pervasive impacts throughout the economy. This book examines the sustainability of growth-oriented macroeconomic strategies, starting from early ideas linking macroeconomic policies, growth and...
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Sustainable Development in Asia, America and Europe with Global Applications
Zhou, Jian-Ming - Edward Elgar
Challenging Nobel economics laureate Theodore W. Schultz, Dr Zhou, in this comparative and path-breaking work, presents a new model for private land ownership or possession to overcome inefficient land-holding, increase farm competitiveness, realize food self-sufficiency and eliminate poverty....
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Handbook on Trade and Development
Morrissey, Oliver (contributor); Lopez, Ricardo (contributor) - Edward Elgar
This Handbook comprehensively explores the complex relationships between trade and economic performance in developing countries. Insightful chapters cover issues such as trade, growth and poverty reduction; trade costs, facilitation and preferences; sub-Saharan Africa’s reliance on trade in...
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Sustainable Growth and Economic Development
Mahadevan, Reunka - Edward Elgar
This book provides an insight into some of the efforts and actions taken by the rapidly developing economy of Malaysia towards its ‘Vision 2020’ of becoming a developed country. Renuka Mahadevan explores whether the vision can become reality and not just remain a dream.
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Market Development in China
Fleisher, Belton M. (contributor); Li, Haizheng (contributor) - Edward Elgar
income inequality at individual, sectoral, and regional levels. …
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Globalization and Inequality
Milanovic, Branko (contributor) - Edward Elgar
This volume brings together the most significant modern contributions to the literature on globalization and inequality … illustrate the impact on levels of inequality of previous periods of globalization and of the current era of globalization. The … collection further focuses on the issues of openness and inequality, and concludes with several benchmark papers that examine …
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Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies
Boldrin, Michele (contributor); Chen, Been-Lon (contributor) - Edward Elgar
Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies argues that only two centuries ago, no society had ever enjoyed sustained growth in living standards. The contributors to this book aim to discover why the world today exhibits a predilection for perpetual self-improvement. In...
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Culture and Economic Action
Grube, Laura E. (contributor);  … - Edward Elgar
The ways in which culture colors economic action has become an important question within economics. Austrian economists are particularly poised to contribute to this discussion because of their belief that economics is a science driven by the values, social relations and the belief systems of...
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