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International handbook of urban policy : Volume 1, Contentious global issues

Geyer, Hermanus S. (contributor) - 2007

This first Handbook in a series of three original reference works looks at globally contentious urban policy issues from a wide variety of different angles and perspectives. Matters related to urban densification, population mobility, urban inequality and sustainability are analysed in a manner...

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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 represents over-urbanization--that is, urbanization in which most migrants cannot effectively compete for employment, cannot find adequate shelter and do not have the means to feed...

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International handbook of urban policy : Volume 2: Issues in the developed world

Geyer, Hermanus S. (contributor) - 2009

This Handbook brings together a range of viewpoints on a number of the burning issues affecting urban sustainability in North America and Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. H.S. Geyer and his contributors cover a wide spectrum of the urban policy issues that determine the growth and...

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Towards a competitive, sustainable modern city

Kresl, Peter Karl (ed.) - 2020

Contents: Introduction -- PART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY -- 1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role of organizing capacity and distributed leadership / Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho -- 2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainable entrepreneurs and...

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The impact of globalization on Argentina and Chile : business enterprises and entrepreneurship

Lluch, Andrea (contributor); Jones, Geoffrey (contributor) - 2015

This unique book compares the effects of globalization on two differing Latin American countries, Argentina and Chile … political crises in Argentina and Chile. The contributors offer a pioneering comparative study of the complex and non … Globalization on Argentina and Chile will be a valuable resource for economic and business historians, Latin Americanists, and …

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Economic liberalization, distribution, and poverty : Latin America in the 1990s

Taylor, Lance (contributor); Vos, Rob (contributor); … - 2002

: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, and Peru … Barros and Rob Vos -- 3. Argentina : macroeconomic behaviour, employment and income distribution in the 1990s / Roberto …

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Inequality, growth and 'hot' money

Bortz, Pablo G. - 2016

Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Growth and distribution: the last 300 years -- 3. Growth and distribution: the Kaleckian perspective -- 4. An integration of the real and the monetary economy -- 5. Financial flows, distribution and capital controls -- 6. Epilogue: challenges and possibilities.

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Adaptation or expiration in family firms : organizational flexibility in emerging economies

Hatum, Andrés - 2007

1. Introduction -- 2. Adaptation, innovation and the flexible organization -- 3. Argentinian business environment -- 4. Adaptive responses under competitive pressures -- 5. Case study : Sidus Group -- 6. Case study : Laboratorio DERSA -- 7. Case study : AGD Aceitera General Deheza -- 8. Case...

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The economies of Argentina and Brazil : a comparative perspective

Baer, Werner (ed.); Fleischer, David (ed.); … - 2011

This book compares the successes and failures of the development and growth processes of Argentina and Brazil. It …

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