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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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Economic Cycles in Emerging and Advanced Countries : Synchronization, International Spillovers and the Decoupling Hypothesis

Pesce, Antonio - 2015

This book contributes to the debate on the decoupling of emerging economies from the advanced economies with a new, empirical investigation approach. Taking counterfactual experiments performed using a time-varying panel VAR model, the author argues that over the last thirty years, emerging...

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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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Intergenerational Solidarity : Strengthening Economic and Social Ties

Cruz-Saco, María Amparo (ed.); Zelenev, Sergei (ed.) - 2010

This volume analyzes intergenerational solidarity from diverse interdisciplinary angles within the social sciences. It provides analytical tools to advance research and documents how societies are adjusting to major changes that affect the core of the social fabric

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Globalization : A Threat to International Cooperation and Peace?

Panic, M. - 2011 - Second edition

Building on the impressive first edition, this revised and updated book examines a wide range of highly topical issues. Dr Panic questions whether economic prosperity, social wellbeing and peace are sustainable given existing national attitudes, institutions and policies, and explores the...

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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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Explaining Growth : A Global Research Project

McMahon, Gary (ed.); Squire, Lyn (ed.) - 2003

spanning the developing world. In each region, studies were undertaken on sources of growth, markets and growth, microeconomic …

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Entrepreneurial Finance for MSMEs : A Managerial Approach for Developing Markets

Abor, Joshua Yindenaba - 2017

This book provides a framework for understanding micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs) as important contributors to economic growth. By examining the economic and investment decisions behind these businesses, the author shows how managers of MSMEs can add value to the firm by...

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Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict : A Critical “Development” Reader

Spoor, Max (contributor) - 2005

Is 'development' passe? Is it merely a by-product or a 'trickle down' effect of economic growth, spurred by globalisation? Will poverty simply diminish with increased global markets? This state-of-the-art critical 'development' reader deals with these and other related questions. "Globalisation,...

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The Political Economy of Fiscal Policy : Public Deficits, Volatility, and Growth

Woo, Jaejoon - 2006

fiscal deficits in a number of countries. Despite recent major fiscal reforms around the world, many countries suffer from …

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