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the recent reform experience of many Latin American and East European countries. They apply common standards of analytical … reform? Although most of the chapters deal with policy issues in developing economies, the findings also apply to areas such … as social security and health care reform in industrialized countries. …
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emphasis in economics from standard price and monetary theory to contracting and its institutional environment. Economic … ownership and compares the effects of privatization, restructuring, and financial reform. Although focused on transition …
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authors, all key participants in the reform effort, describe the events and the ideas driving privatization. They argue that …
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A handbook for scholars, students, policy makers, journalists, and peace and environmental activists, Nuclear Wastelands provides concise histories of the development of nuclear weapons programs of every declared and de facto nuclear weapons power. It follows the production process step by step...
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environment. For many leading-brand companies, these corporate sustainability efforts go deep, reorienting central operations and …
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failures of green coalitions and the partisan patterns of support for green energy reform. This new piecemeal green industrial …
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guidelines for future policy formation. Volume 2: Energy, the Environment, and Economic Growth presents a new econometric general …
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In The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster, Werner Troesken looks at a long-running environmental and public health catastrophe: 150 years of lead pipes in local water systems and the associated sickness, premature death, political inaction, and social denial. The harmful effects of lead water pipes...
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In this book Peter Lindert evaluates environmental concerns about soil degradation in two very large countries--China and Indonesia--where anecdotal evidence has suggested serious problems. Lindert does what no scholar before him has done: using new archival data sets, he measures changes in...
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Global Accord is a holistic approach to a complex set of environmental issues. It provides a much-needed analytical framework for examining how individuals, groups, and nations create environmental dislocations, and how nations can work together to solve ecological problems that cross their...
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