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Institutions and trade policy
Finger, J. M. - 2002
This book reprints 18 essays selected from almost 30 years of work by the author as a high level official at the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the US Treasury Department and the World Bank. These essays report some of the core analytical thinking behind positions taken by these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474162
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The economics and ideology of free trade : a historical review
Gomes, Leonard - 2003
The Economics and Ideology of Free Trade makes an important contribution to the debate on globalization by providing much needed intellectual and historical perspective on the issue of Free Trade versus Protection
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851318
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The economics of tourism and sustainable development
Lanza, Alessandro (contributor); Markandya, Anil (contributor) - 2005
1. An investigation on the growth performance of small tourism countries -- 2. Forecasting international tourism demand and uncertainty for Barbados, Cyprus and Fiji -- 3. Land, environmental externalities and tourism development -- 4. Tourism, increasing returns and welfare -- 5. How to develop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420059
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Entrepreneurship in developing countries
Beck, Thorsten (contributor) - 2009
Recommended readings (Machine generated): Philippe Aghion and Patrick Bolton (1997), 'A Theory of Trickle-Down Growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852297
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The environment, sustainable development, and public policies : building sustainability in Brazil
Cavalcanti, Clóvis de Vasconcelos (ed.) - 2000
This book presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the possibility of creating a sustainable path of economic development which would not harm the natural environment. It presents concepts, theories, methods and policy advice on sustainability and debates the difficulty in establishing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473831
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The economics of environment and development : selected essays
Barbier, Edward - 1998
The Economics of Environment and Development is a carefully edited selection of Edward Barbier's most influential papers on the role of environmental economics in economic development. This book begins with a brief overview and summary of the papers, placing each in its original context and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473965
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473967
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The WTO, subsidies and countervailing measures
Bacchetta, Marc - 2011
Recommended readings (Machine generated): Bagwell, K. and R.W. Staiger (1999), 'An Economic Theory of GATT', American … the Theory of Optimum Subsidy', Journal of Political Economy, 71 (1), February, 44-50 -- Harry G. Johnson (1965), 'Optimal … Directions in Trade Theory, Chapter 10, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 347-84 -- Douglas A. Irwin and Nina Pavcnik …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852300
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The WTO and the political economy of trade policy
Hillman, Arye L. (contributor);  … - 2008
. Bewley (ed) (ed.), Advances in Economic Theory: Fifth World Congress, Chapter 9, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 329 … Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger (1999), 'An Economic Theory of GATT', American Economic Review, 89 (1), March, 215-48 … International Economics, 12 (3), 303-20 -- Warren F. Schwartz and Alan O. Sykes (1996), 'Toward a Positive Theory of the Most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852224
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Dynamics of uneven development
Mainwaring, Lynn - 1991
This important new book critically examines the argument that structural asymmetries between the rich, industrialised countries of the global 'north' or 'centre' and the poor, largely primary-producing countries of the 'south' or 'periphery' could be responsible for an unequal division of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473928