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Economic integration and development : has regionalism delivered for developing countries?

Kreinin, Mordechai Elihau - 2002

1. Introduction and summary -- 2. The theory of preferential trading arrangements : an overview -- 3. Measuring the effects of economic integration -- 4. Effect of EC-92 and NAFTA on developing-country trade flows -- 5. Effects of EC-92 and NAFTA on DFI in Asia -- 6. ASEAN economic cooperation :...

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Climate change and agriculture : an economic analysis of global impacts, adaptation and distributional effects

Mendelsohn, Robert O.; Dinar, Ariel - 2009

Despite its great importance, there are surprisingly few economic studies of the impact of climate on agriculture and how agriculture can adapt under a variety of conditions. This book examines 22 countries across four continents, including both developed and developing economies. It provides...

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International handbook of urban policy : Volume 3: Issues in the developing world

Geyer, Hermanus S. (contributor) - 2011

This important Handbook reveals that most urban growth takes place in the less developed world and much of it …

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Economy and ecosystems in change : analytical and historical approaches

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den (ed.); … - International Society for Ecological Economics <San … - 1997

Economy and Ecosystems in Change addresses ecological problems from an economic perspective, and provides policy suggestions for resource management and environmental sustainability based on integrated, multidisciplinary information, methods and applications. The book begins by introducing the...

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Institutions and trade policy

Finger, J. M. - 2002

Conference on Trade and Development, the US Treasury Department and the World Bank. These essays report some of the core …

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The Elgar companion to the World Bank

Vetterlein, Antje (ed.); Schmidtke, Tobias (ed.) - 2024

"The Elgar Companion to The World Bank provides a comprehensive review of the past 80 years for this powerful … as well as insights from development practitioners, it presents an interdisciplinary exploration of research on the World …

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Institutions, globalisation and empowerment

Sideras, Jörn (contributor); Roy, Kartik C. (contributor) - 2006

This book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social development achieved, depend more on the institutional parameters within which the development policies are implemented than on the policies themselves. It contends that forces of globalisation...

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Institutions and development

Shirley, Mary M. - 2008

A landmark contribution to our understanding of economic development. This significant book argues that fundamental changes in deeply rooted institutions do not happen because of outsiders' money, advice, pressures, or even physical force; which explains why foreign aid has not, and can not,...

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The economic North-South divide : six decades of unequal development

Raffer, Kunibert - 2004 - Pbk. ed

South. Encouraged by recent successful opposition to neoliberalism, the authors finally propose ideas for a world where … Consensus' -- 5. Aid to development and the bipolar world -- 6. ODA after the Cold War : less money at tougher conditions -- 7 … -- 13. Textiles and apparel : double standards of adjustment and transition -- 14. Towards a more equal world order …

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Measuring WTO's contributions to global economic welfare

Anderson, Kym - 2014

the World Trade Organization, it is worthwhile to reflect on the WTO's contributions to global welfare since its inception … Review 89(1): 215-48, March -- Bagwell, Kyle and Robert W. Staiger (2002), The Economics of the World Trading System … Research Working Paper 6109, World Bank, Washington DC, June -- Boue͏̈t, Antionne and David Laborde (2010), 'Assessing the …

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