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This book shows how philanthropy can be a primary force in the transfer of technology in transitional societies. It demonstrates the necessity of retraining of people and how this endeavor is as important as the technology itself. It is essentially about Hungary,...
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Oxford University Press
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2002-06-20
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In Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Partha Dasgupta explores ways to measure the quality of life.In developing quality-of-life indices, he pays particular attention to the natural environment, illustrating how it can be incorporated, more generally, into...
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OUP Oxford
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2001-11-15
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Just as individuals have preferences regarding the various goods and services they purchase every day, so they also hold preferences regrding public goods such as hose provided by the naural environment. However, unlike provate goods, environmental goods often cannot be...
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OUP Oxford
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2001-11-01
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Since the 1960s the per capita incomes of the resource-poor countries have grown significantly faster than those of the resource-abundant countries. In fact, in recent years economic growth has been inversely proportional to the share of natural resource rents in GDP,...
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OUP Oxford
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2001-06-28
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This book explores the role of community in facilitating the transition to market relationships in economic development, and in controlling and sustaining local public goods such as irrigation, forests, grazing land, and fishing grounds. Previously it was customary to...
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OUP Oxford
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2001-05-31
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China's explosive economic growth since 1988 has not resulted in an equal increase of income among all Chinese citizens. The authors explore a range of reasons for the disparity and base their conclusions on strong empirical evidence--especially the 1996 survey...
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Oxford University Press
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2001-01-25
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A large share of the population in many developing countries suffer from chronic undernutrition. In this book, Professor Svedberg provides a detailed comparative study of undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the two worst affected areas, and provides...
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Clarendon Press
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2000-10-05
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This analysis of the political economy of growth in the era of Deng Xiaoping takes issue with the growth-accounting methodologies and market-centred explanations which characterize so much of the literature on transition-era China. By adopting an approach which echoes...
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OUP Oxford
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2000-09-14
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The book comprises eight lectures delivered by T.N. Srinivasan at ISEC Bangalore in 1998.The short lectures succinctly describe the reform process since the early 1990s, covering the famework and process of reform in each sector of the economy....
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OUP India
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2000-02-04
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Traditional development economics has recently been revolutionized by the application of new economic tools and concepts. Development Microeconomics is the first in a series of books which will look at the entire spectrum of development economics issues, combining the...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-05-06
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Despite the negative press Asian economies have received in connection with the recent financial crisis, their record of spectacular growth over the past few decades remains irrefutable. In an effort to provide a rich, textured analysis of these economies, editor W....
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Oxford University Press
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1998-11-19
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This book provides an account of economic development in Palanpur, a village in rural North India, based on five detailed surveys of the village over the period 1957 to 1993. These five decades have seen economic well-being rise in some important respects, but...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-11-19
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This wide-ranging and innovative book synthesises the findings of a major international study of the political economy of poverty, equity, and growth. It is based primarily on analytical economic histories of 21 developing countries from 1950 to 1985, but also takes...
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Clarendon Press
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1998-10-08
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Even as relations between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China continue to be strained, investment by Taiwanese businesses in China is growing every year. Between 1978 and 1994, Taiwan businesses invested $10 billion in China, 10% of the total foreign investment...
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Oxford University Press
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1998-04-30
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Street foods are sold in almost every country in the world. Many urban and rural people depend on them for one or more meals each day. This book explores this world of entrepreneurs in developing countries. When all of the participants in the delivery are counted,...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-03-27
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Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day to day basis by the allocation and use of primary local resources. Yet `official' development economics has concentrated on headline international issues and only recently begun to take account of the...
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Clarendon Press
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1997-03-13
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Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day to day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources. Yet `official' development economics has concentrated on headline international issues and only recently begun to take account of the...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
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1997-03-13
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India is the world's largest democracy, and second-largest developing country. For forty years it has also been one of the most dirigiste and autarkic. The 1980s saw most developing and erstwhile communist countries opt for market economic systems.India belatedly...
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Clarendon Press
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1996-09-26
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This work explores a new development paradigm whose central focus is on human well-being. Increase in income is treated as an essential means, but not as the end of development, and certainly not as the sum of human life. Development policies and strategies are...
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Oxford University Press
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1995-08-17
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One of the most important and complex problems facing both developing and industrialized nations is how to sustain economic growth without harming the environment. Faye Duchin and Glenn-Marie Lange address this issue in a practical and realistic way: through a detailed...
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Oxford University Press
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1995-01-26
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