Economics of specific sectors

A comprehensive examination of the nature, causes, and consequences of internal migration in developing countriesDespite the key role of rural-urban migration in structural transformation and the persistence of lower living standards in the countryside, active policies to reduce, or even reverse, movement into towns are common in major developing regions.

A comprehensive examination of the nature, causes, and consequences of internal migration in developing countriesDespite the key role of rural-urban migration in structural transformation and the persistence of lower living standards in the countryside, active policies to reduce, or even reverse, movement into towns are common in major developing regions.

The passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 marked a sweeping transformation in American politics.

The passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 marked a sweeping transformation in American politics.

Over the past 75 years, household income in the United States has increased substantially.

Over the past 75 years, household income in the United States has increased substantially.

The US prescription drug business is a $500 billion industry whose rising prices carry profound consequences for patients, caregivers, employers and taxpayers across the nation.

The US prescription drug business is a $500 billion industry whose rising prices carry profound consequences for patients, caregivers, employers and taxpayers across the nation.

This edited volume focuses on both conceptual and practical challenges in measuring well-being.

One of the most important and complex problems facing both developing and industrialized nations is how to sustain economic growth without harming the environment.

During the past century, tropical rain forests have been reduced to about half of their original area, with a consequent loss of biodiversity.

During the last 100 years, the worldwide yields of cereal grains, such as wheat and rice, have increased dramatically.

Ecology, Engineering, and the Paradox of Management is the first book that addresses and reconciles what many take to be the core paradox facing environmental decision-makers and stakeholders: How do they restore the environment while at the same time provide ever more services reliably from that environment, including clean air, water and energy for more and more people?

This book showcases the discussion about megaprojects carried out at the MeRIT (Megaproject Research Interdisciplinary Team) workshop 2023: the crisis, discontinuity, rising prices, and supply chains disruption force radical reflection for those involved in megaprojects.

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national, and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport, and development priorities by connecting in a more powerful and meaningful way with local aspirations and demands.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

While sharing some characteristics with other middle-income countries, South Africa is a country with a unique economic history and distinctive economic features.

While sharing some characteristics with other middle-income countries, South Africa is a country with a unique economic history and distinctive economic features.

This is an open access title.

This is an open access title.

Social mobility is the hope of economic development and the mantra of a good society.

Social mobility is the hope of economic development and the mantra of a good society.

What drives support for or opposition to redistributive taxation and spending?

Why we are poor and others are so very rich, indeed, why they are so rich when we are still very poor.

Why we are poor and others are so very rich, indeed, why they are so rich when we are still very poor.

Why do farm workers become more vulnerable as countries get richer?

Why do farm workers become more vulnerable as countries get richer?

Focusing on health care, education, and elderly care, Privatizing Welfare Services draws on extensive research on the consequences of introducing market-based mechanisms to deliver welfare services.

Focusing on health care, education, and elderly care, Privatizing Welfare Services draws on extensive research on the consequences of introducing market-based mechanisms to deliver welfare services.

How can we track change in poor rural areas where data are scarce?

How can we track change in poor rural areas where data are scarce?

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption.

Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption.

The anthropological demography of health, as a field of interdisciplinary population research, has grown from the 1990s, extending to a remarkable range of key human and policy issues, including: genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability and chronic diseases; new reproductive technologies; and population ageing.

The anthropological demography of health, as a field of interdisciplinary population research, has grown from the 1990s, extending to a remarkable range of key human and policy issues, including: genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability and chronic diseases; new reproductive technologies; and population ageing.

Utilitarianism began as a movement for social reform that changed the world, based on the ideal of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain.

Utilitarianism began as a movement for social reform that changed the world, based on the ideal of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain.

How do people survive and thrive in the uncertain and risk-prone Sahel?

How do people survive and thrive in the uncertain and risk-prone Sahel?

The notion that social protection should be a key strategy for reducing poverty in developing countries has now been mainstreamed within international development policy and practice.

With cities acting as magnets for population concentration and economic growth, urban planning takes a center stage.

For a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY4.

Speculative Communities investigates the financial world's influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and political lives.

Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis aims to help health care and public health organisations make fairer decisions with better outcomes.