Economics of specific sectors

This book is about the harnessing of social capital, formalized as village or community organizations, to guide and facilitate collective action for attaining poverty alleviation in particular and enhancing community well-being in general.

The book is an interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays, with an editorial introduction, on a range of territories in the Commonwealth, Francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean.

Much has been written about the wealth of nations, the history of unequal distribution and zones of affluence and deprivation within and between societies.

This year's Human Development Report explains why we have less than a decade to change course and start living within our global carbon budget, and how climate change will create long-run low human development traps, pushing vulnerable people into a downward spiral of deprivation.

Social Policy has been a key dimension of dynamic economic growth in East Asia's 'little tigers' and is also a prominent strand of their responses to the financial crisis of the late 1990s.

Techno-regions have generated most of the new jobs in the past decade and this technology is driving economic development; however, problems persist.

Tropical forests are disappearing at an unaltered pace, giving way to alternative land uses.

There are now increasing concerns about the need to upgrade public infrastructure, improve the delivery of public services, and explore new options for partnering with the private sector.

With representatives from different disciplines stressing the central importance of freedom in analyzing poverty and emphasizing some important policy issues, this book offers a view of poverty that will orient research in directions previously neglected, and help those in charge of implementing poverty reduction policies.

This book examines the aging of the US population as a primary domestic public policy issue.

This book considers aspects of transformation of former state socialist countries: social and economic outcomes; forces in the transformation process; problems of consolidation of the new regimes;and other scenarios.

Environmental economists have in general paid little or no attention to the political context within which green taxation would be introduced.

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This book is the first comprehensive account of the numerous attempts made since the Second World War to provide food security for all.

This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment.

This book examines the efficiency and effectiveness of economic policies in Europe, and explores the implications for social equity.

This book examines how consistent the post-war process of globalization has been with the basic requisites of sustainable development.

Asset-based policies are becoming an increasingly important form of social policy globally.

This book demonstrates that, when reforming the water sector, policymakers should arrange social policies that mitigate the negative impact of reforms.

Regional development problems in China have been focused on by many analysts and policy makers.

Foreign finance for private sector development (PSD) has become popular with the donor community and in multilateral development policy fora, seen as an antidote for recipient economies' aid dependency and a way of accomplishing growth, poverty reduction and empowerment.

The HIV/AIDS pandemic striking South Africa is of historic proportions.

Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economics brings together a choice selection of some of the most enduring academic writing published in this field in a single volume.

Are Africa's most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century?

This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement.

This volume presents a thought provoking analysis of key welfare state issues engaging policy makers across the globe.

Wind energy is the great success story of modern renewable energy.

This book is an extensive review of the current state of illegal immigration in Europe and North America whilst providing theoretical analysis.

The climate policy debate has been dominated by economic estimates of the costs of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The management of environmental or green issues has become a key concern for many companies.

China and Taiwan are two of the fastest growing economies of the newly industrialized countries.

One of the biggest challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region in the 21st century is the large scale cross-border movement of people.

Consumption, Jobs and the Environment argues that the present pattern of development, based on everlasting economic growth, is completely unsatisfactory from a welfare point of view.

The energy reserves of the Caspian Region have been hailed as the new 'Middle East'.

An authoritative addition to comparative housing research, adding to knowledge of housing policy in practice in China.

The Asian road to the market has generally been seen as a model of success and the object of widespread admiration.

A review of the literature on environmental taxes, focusing on European experiences, and analysing how such taxes can contribute to green causes as well as reducing the tax burden from "e;ordinary"e; taxation.

This book presents a theoretically-based comprehensive analysis of macroeconomic consequences of fiscal policy using a popular economic model: the overlapping generations growth model.

An in-depth analysis of the fundamental role that decentralization plays in developing countries, using detailed statistical data to examine the actual fiscal structure between tiers of government, and the effects of decentralization at the local, national and international levels.

Transition economies offer a test case for concepts and theories, for broader ideas and for the methods of scientific enquiry, but also for the multiplicity of ideological interpretations.

The book brings together twelve original essays on the meaning and implications of sustainable development.

This book offers an analysis of European capitalist welfare societies, centering on the questions of sustainability and the financing of social rights.

In this timely book, leading authors explore the technologies that might help us to develop a sustainable energy future, emphasising renewable energy and the political and economic context needed for them to prosper.

Some goods and services are normally left to the market mechanism.

Agricultural development in Central America is based on extensive growth, supported by macroeconomic policies that marginalize small peasants.

This book provides a succinct account of what may happen to the energy sector in the former Soviet Union in the medium- to long-run under alternative scenarios for macroeconomic reform.

Richard Layard is one of Britain's foremost applied economists, whose work has had a profound impact on the policy debate in Britain and abroad.

'The book is a pioneering attempt to see exactly what difference economic valuation of environmental effects would have made to six actual, on-going, development projects, if it had been done at the time of appraisal.

An exploration of the implications of mineral-led wealth and the opportunities that this creates for economic and social development.

Investment projects are an important mechanism for economic development.