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Sustainable and responsible investment in developing markets : a companion

Abor, Joshua Yindenaba (ed.) - 2023

"Covering pertinent areas of sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) this forward-looking book examines SRI in … investment strategies and philosophies that attempt to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns into … investment decision-making. In turn it provides an in-depth review of a number of different motivations for SRI, including …

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Social capital and economic development : well-being in developing countries

Isham, Jonathan (contributor); Ramaswamy, Sunder (contributor) - Middlebury College Conference on Economic Issues <(21st … - 2002

The chapters in this volume explore the challenges and opportunities raised by this concept for researchers, practitioners and teachers. Social Capital and Economic Development is based upon a consistent, policy-based vision of how social capital affects well-being in developing countries

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Beyond food production : the role of agriculture in poverty reduction

Bresciani, Fabrizio (contributor); … - 2007

The importance of agricultural growth to poverty reduction is well known, but the specific channels through which the poor can take advantage of growth require further research. Beyond Food Production takes on this challenge, investigating four important channels: rural labor markets, farm...

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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 … climate change on agriculture -- 4. The Ricardian method -- 5. Modeling adaptation to climate change -- 6. Structural …

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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...

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Economic development and agricultural productivity

Bhaduri, Amit (ed.); Skarstein, Rune (ed.) - 1997

This important book challenges conventional development theory by addressing not only technological but also socio-economic factors influencing low agricultural productivity in the developing world. Agricultural productivity has long been regarded as a fundamental factor in influencing economic...

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Euro-Pacific investment and trade : strategies and structural interdependencies

Boyd, Gavin (ed.); Rugman, Alan M. (ed.) - 1997

This important book - written by leading scholars in international business - critically reviews the activities of European and Pacific international firms. Transformations of markets and national economic systems associated with the activities of these corporations are posing many issues of...

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Investment, capital market imperfections, and uncertainty : theory and empirical results

Lensink, Robert; Bo, Hong; Sterken, Elmer - 2001

This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment …, the authors discuss both traditional investment models with uncertainty and the more modern option based models. They … present an overview of empirical results of the modelling of investment under uncertainty. In these examples, the effects of …

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Global money, capital restructuring, and the changing patterns of labour

Bellofiore, Riccardo (ed.) - 1999

The last two decades have seen a reshaping of the international economy together with a radical weakening in the conditions of the working class. New productive techniques and methods in the organization of labour have been implemented on a world-wide scale partly as a consequence of the...

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The economics of intangible investment

Webster, Elizabeth - 1999

The amount of physical matter in the world is fixed and improvements to people's material circumstances are only created by their ability to reconfigure this matter. What distinguishes labour, and subsequently what allows for differing increments of value, are our capabilities, skills and...

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