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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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Fair Trade and Harmonization - Vol. 2: Legal Analysis

Bhagwati, Jagdish (contributor); … - The MIT Press

The original contributions in Fair Trade and Harmonization investigate the growing conflict between free trade policies and the domestic environmental, labor, and antitrust policies of individual nations. They clarify the issues and offer a critical economic and legal analysis of the contending...

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Fair Trade and Harmonization - Vol. 1: Economic Analysis

Bhagwati, Jagdish (contributor); … - The MIT Press

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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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