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Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia
Lindert, Peter H. - The MIT Press
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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Inequality and Growth: Theory and Policy Implications
Eicher, Theo S. (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
, transition, labor markets, and education. A theme common to all the essays is the importance of education in reducing inequality …
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Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem
Woessmann, Ludger (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
tools of economics to assess the outcome of efforts to solve education's equal opportunity problem in a range of countries … between education and parental income, the problematic past research on peer effects, tracking, the distribution of … suggests that achieving universal primary and secondary education is both urgently needed and feasible. Will the international …
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The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity
Hausmann, Ricardo; Hidalgo, Cesar - The MIT Press
Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas of Economic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "Economic Complexity," a measure of a society’s productive knowledge. Prosperous societies are those that have the knowledge to make a larger variety of more...
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