Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Property Rights and Sustainable Development - Terry L. Anderson -- 1. The Skeptical Environmentalist - Bjørn Lomborg -- 2. Economic Growth, Technological Change, and...

In Africa, where poor roads, ports and railway infrastructure often constrain the rapid and efficient transportation of goods earmarked for export as well as passengers, air transport holds both a potential for growth and a role for the economic development of the continent by fostering trade...

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors and Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Market Reforms: Lessons from Country and Commodity Experiences -- 2. Cocoa Market Reforms in West Africa -- 3. Coffee Market Liberalization since 1990 -- 4. Sugar Policy and Reform -- 5. Policy Reform...

This book represents the first systematic attempt to explore the financial crisis in an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective and is essential reading for both policy-makers and academics interested in national governance

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Moderns and Plato -- 2 Liberty and the Just Moral Conscience -- 3 The Cultivation of the Individual and Society: J. S. Mill's Use of Ancient and Romantic Dialectics -- 4 On Liberty: Overcoming the West's One-Sided Moral Development --...

Structural transformation depends not only on how much countries export but also on what they export and with whom they trade. This paper breaks new ground in analyzing India's exports by the technological content, quality, sophistication, and complexity of the export basket. We identify five...