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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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Great Divergence and Great Convergence : A Global Perspective

Grinin, Leonid - 2015

Colo-nies Became the World Economic Locomotives -- Afterword. The Great Convergence and Possible Increase in Global … Instability, or the World without an Absolute Leader. …This new monograph provides a stimulating new take on hotly contested topics in world modernization and the globalizing …

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The Three Regularities in Development : Growth, Jobs and Macro Policy in Developing Countries

Mahmood, Moazam - 2018

the structural constraints and imbalances underpinning such global problems, the world economy is doomed to experience an …

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Global Business in Local Culture : The Impact of Embedded Multinational Enterprises

Aerni, Philipp - 2018

This book examines the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on local economies, and presents selected case studies of MNEs operating in low income countries. By balancing external social and environmental costs against its corresponding benefits, the book demonstrates that MNEs can have a...

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The Impact of Mobile Phones on Poverty and Inequality in Developing Countries

James, Jeffrey - 2016

This book investigates at both the micro- and macroeconomic levels the impact of mobile phones on poverty and inequality in developing countries. To gauge the effects of mobile phones on these aspects, the author refers to the standard concept of technology adoption and also analyses the actual...

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Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies : Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age

Mazza, Jacqueline - 2017

This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies. It addresses how scarce resources required to escape poverty - good jobs, schools, and training -...

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A Theory of Sustainable Sociocultural and Economic Development

Rabie, Mohamed - 2016

This book argues that development is a comprehensive societal process with two key elements: economic restructuring and sociocultural transformation. While either of these elements alone can initiate change, a strong development plan needs to address both in order to succeed

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Complexity in Information Systems Development : Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Information Systems Development

Linger, Henry (ed.); Barry, Chris (ed.); Lang, Michael (ed.) - 2017

This volume is a collection of papers on emerging concepts, approaches and ideas in information systems research. It examines theoretical and methodological issues related to both information systems development in general and the complexity of information systems as socio-technical systems. The...

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The Diversity of Emerging Capitalisms in Developing Countries : Globalization, Institutional Convergence and Experimentation

Rougier, Eric (ed.); Combarnous, François (ed.) - 2017

This book presents the results of a collective and original empirical investigation of the institutional systems underlying the capitalisms that are coming to the fore in developing nations. While varieties of industrialized countries’ capitalisms are extensively scrutinized, those of...

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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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