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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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Global Warming: Economic Policy Responses
Dornbusch, Rudiger (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
Global warming is debated largely in environmental terms. The contributions in this book focus instead on the economic effects of global warming, providing an excellent summary of current thinking on this important issue. They raise such crucial questions as: Which countries will suffer the most...
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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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