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Mavrotas, George (ed.); Shorrocks, Anthony (ed.) - 2007

This book reflects on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen over the next two decades. As well as studying development economics in retrospect, the volume explores the current debates and challenges and looks forward at the problems that affect the global capacity to...

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Mathematical Models for Evacuation Planning in Urban Areas

Bretschneider, Sarah - 2013

Introduction -- Literature Review -- An Urban Evacuation Problem -- A Relaxation-Based Heuristic Approach for the Mixed-Integer Evacuation Model -- A Pattern-Based Evacuation Planning Model for Urban Areas -- A Two-Staged Heuristic Approach -- A Multicommodity Urban Evacuation Problem -- A...

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Critical Infrastructure : Reliability and Vulnerability

Murray, Alan T. (contributor); Grubesic, Tony H. (contributor) - 2007

This text brings together differing geographic perspectives in modeling and analysis in order to highlight infrastructure weaknesses or plan for their protection. Offering new methodological approaches, the book explores the potential consequences of critical infrastructure failure, stemming...

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Macroeconomic Risk Management Against Natural Disasters : Analysis focussed on governments in developing countries

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Economic Growth : The New Perspectives for Theory and Policy

Gim, Tae yu - 2014

Preface -- Introduction to and Summary of Economic Growth: Perspectives on New Theory and Policy -- Decelerating … effectively contribute to actual economic growth. Therefore, this book presents a more effective theory on economic growth for … countries and leaders looking to promote economic growth. It is essentially centered around the theory of economic growth and …

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Revisiting the Informal Sector : A General Equilibrium Approach

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - 2010

Theoretical Foundations: A General Equilibrium Approach -- The Harris-Todaro Migration Model and Introduction of the Informal Sector -- Informal Sector and Open Unemployment -- Foreign Capital Inflow, Informal Sector and Welfare -- How and How Far to Liberalise a Developing Economy -- Economic...

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Measuring Globalisation : Gauging Its Consequences

Dreher, Axel - 2008

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AIDS and Aid : A Public Good Approach

Sonntag, Diana - 2010

The Challenge: A Transnational Response to HIV/AIDS -- Profiling the Provision Status of Health-Promoting Public Goods Against AIDS -- International Transfers -- Regional Constraints and HIV/AIDS -- Summary and Concluding Remarks

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The Political Economy of Refugee Migration and Foreign Aid

Czaika, Mathias - 2009

This book explores the determinants of forced migration and its political implications from an economic perspective. It describes the distribution of burdens from forced migration across countries, and analyzes the strategic interaction of national refugee policies to control refugee flows.

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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries : Third International Conference, ISCRAM-med 2016, Madrid, Spain, October 26-28, 2016, Proceedings

Diaz, Paloma (ed.); Bellamine Ben Saoud, Narjès (ed.); … - 2016

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries, ISCRAM-med 2016, held in Madrid, Spain, in October 2016. Information systems and technologies can play a key role in crisis...

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