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Shen's book valuable to students, teachers, and researchers in the areas of comparative economic systems, economic development, and economic history.

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The contributors show that digital media are disrupting entire media industries, but without erasing the past and insist that one media sector is not the same as the next. As the title signals even in the age of convergence and remix culture, different media continue to display their own distinctive political economies.

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Over the decades, there has been a widespread movement from authoritarian to democratic rule among developing countries, often occurring against a backdrop of severe economic crises and the adoption of market-oriented reforms. This title explores this relationship, addressing a variety of questions.

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Kenya is a country of geopolitical and economic importance in East Africa. This critical analysis of sustainable development in post-independence Kenya offers a comprehensive policy framework within the context of the opportunities provided by the 2010 constitution.

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Shows how the political economy of east German privatisation was to work as well as how it actually unfolded. Dininio examines patterns of industrial assistance in the new German Lander (federal states) during the difficult transition from central planning to a market economy.

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Voxi Heinrich Amavilah examines the factors and forces that explain the unexpectedly good performance of Sub-Saharan African countries just before the 2008 global recession, including newer technologies, globalization, governance, and conventional determinants of economic performance.

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Turning to an examination of ethnic discrimination under communism, the contributors analyze the problems faced by gypsies in Eastern Europe, the politics of ethnicity and affirmative action in the Soviet Union, and labor market discrimination and ethnic tension in Yugoslavia.

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A state-of-the-art assessment of welfare provision, policy and reform at national and at EU level which spans the whole of Europe - East, West and Central. Uniquely broad-ranging in scope, and covering the latest research findings and theoretical debates, it provides a genuinely comparative overview text for students of twenty-first-century Europe.

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This study examines various perspectives of the problem of hunger in the world. Thus, while our economic system produces many advantages for some people, it also produces many disadvantages for others.

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Sridharan provides an interpretative comparison of the political economy of policy and development of a new industryelectronicsin three major developing countries India, Brazil, and Koreaover a quarter of a century.

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The Political Economy of Kenya is a collection of timely and up-to-date essays focusing on the interaction of politics and economics in Kenya's domestic political arena.

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In the midst of political decline and burgeoning financial problems in the late 19th century, the Ottoman Empire became embroiled in a borrowing frenzy, which eventually resulted in the financial collapse of the empire. This work focuses on the handling of the external debt crisis, one of the most controversial periods of Ottoman economic history.

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Supports the libertarian socialist tradition by presenting a model of how producers and consumers could democratically plan their interconnected activities. This book explains why hierarchical production, inegalitarian consumption, central planning, and market allocations are incompatible with 'classlessness.'

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A comprehensive analysis of the political economy of reform in China's countryside during the past 20 years.

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In this thoughtful analysis, a group of international specialists explores the political and economic issues and controversies surrounding the oil industry's move to capitalism. The authors examine the spread of crime and corruption, the role of Russian and Western financial institutions, regional tensions, and the international dimension.

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This interdisciplinary approach to development provides a rapid yet in-depth look at the major economic and political issues in Senegal.

The editors' comprehensive introduction, Structural Change in a Difficult World, provides both the historical and the thematic foundations for the essays that follow.

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This study of Asian agency in colonial Nyanza provides a blueprint to understand the persistent insufficiencyin sugar production in post-independence Kenya. This book brings to light issues in broader Kenyan economic history, such as the undercapitalization of peasant farmers and lack of political will to spur agricultural economic development due to the politics of special interest groups.

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Syria under Asad has been one of the key regional powers of the Middle East. This is a study of the country's political economy and its evolution since 1970 to the present day.

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Based on a policy-making theoretical framework and on the recent experiences of 10 developing countries, this study explores the factors that lead to the success or failure of telecommunications reform.