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Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb (ed.); Acharya, Shabd S. (ed.); … - 2007

This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment

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Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy

Kalkuhl, Matthias (ed.); Braun, Joachim von (ed.); … - 2016

This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from...

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Debt Relief for Poor Countries

Addison, Tony (ed.); Hansen, Henrik (ed.); Tarp, Finn (ed.) - 2004

analysis of debt, development, and poverty …

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The Many Dimensions of Poverty

Kakwani, Nanak (ed.); Silber, Jacques (ed.) - 2007

With representatives from different disciplines stressing the central importance of freedom in analyzing poverty and … emphasizing some important policy issues, this book offers a view of poverty that will orient research in directions previously … neglected, and help those in charge of implementing poverty reduction policies …

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Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction

Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb (ed.); Mavrotas, George (ed.) - 2008

This book explores country case studies and works that detail the exact transmission mechanisms through which financial development can enhance pro-poor development in order to derive best practices in this field. This is an important companion for professionals and policymakers, and also a...

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Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy

Wankel, Charles (ed.) - 2008

There is a growing realization that business development is the most effective weapon in fighting world poverty. How … the for-profit model can be harnessed to provide the poor with a share in the world's prosperity is discussed through …

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Economic Development, Inequality and War : Humanitarian Emergencies in Developing Countries

Nafziger, Estel Wayne; Auvinen, Juha Yrjö - 2003

Economic Development, Inequality and War shows how economic decline, income inequality, pervasive rent seeking by ruling elites, political authoritarianism, military centrality and competition for mineral exports contribute to war and humanitarian emergencies. Economic regress and political...

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Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes : Economic Policies and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

Zilberman, David; Lipper, Leslie; Sakuyama, Takumi; … - 2009

institutional incentives in order to meet both environmental and poverty alleviation objectives. However, their optimal design …

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Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development

Nkonya, Ephraim (ed.); Mirzabaev, Alisher (ed.); … - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016

This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of...

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Multinationals and Foreign Investment in Economic Development

Graham, Edward M. (ed.) - 2005

During the past twenty or so years, foreign direct investment (FDI) flows have increased at rates approaching the astounding, especially so during the 1990s. While much of the increase was due to unprecedented cross-border mergers and acquisitions among high-income countries, the amount of FDI...

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