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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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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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pt. I. Climate justice -- pt. II. Expanding the scope of the climate change legal regimes -- pt. III. The clean development mechanism and mitigation strategies -- pt. IV. Climate policy bridging the north and south
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This important Handbook reveals that most urban growth takes place in the less developed world and much of it …
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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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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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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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This authoritative Handbook provides a comprehensive account of migration and economic development throughout the world …, in both developed and developing countries. Some of the world's most experienced researchers in this field look at how … all the major regions of the world over the past half century …
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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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Survey', in Boris Pleskovic (ed) and Nicholas Stern (ed) (eds), Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2003 …: The New Reform Agenda, New York, NY: World Bank and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 47-90 -- L. Alan Winters, Neil …), 'The Political Economy of World Mass Migration', The Political Economy of World Mass Migration: Comparing Two Global …
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