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This is a guide to the privatization of industry, agriculture and services provided by governments in the developing world. The handbook intends to enable officials of these states to initiate privatization strategies and to develop their own plans with the help of local civil servants.

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Challenging the prevailing view of privatization, this book analyzes the state of privatization around the world and offers policy suggestions.

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Product standards, regulations, and conformity assessment procedures are important and necessary, but they also, at times, threaten the free flow of goods in international markets and the competitive positions of many exporters. In this book Alan O. Sykes illustrates how standards and regulations create trade barriers, explores the extent of the problem, and considers possible policy responses.

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One of the usual assumptions in economic theory is that an entity called a commodity can be measured or that the amount of it can be represented by any real number. The functions (or other types of mapping) with which the economist deals, such as production functions, demand curves, and cost functions are assumed to be defined for real number array

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Perkins argues that development theory can be improved by considering the causal effects of precapitalist structures in developing countries on their transition to capitalism.

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The digital divide is one of the most pressing issues facing America todayand Ro Khanna, the widely respected Congressperson of Silicon Valley, is leading the charge to close it.

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Experts from inside and outside the USAID program evaluate the effectiveness of governmental intervention aimed at ensuring adequate agricultural production and food security in Third-World nations.

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Covering topics ranging from the New Silk Road to changes in school governance around the world, the essays in this volume offer a critical, historically informed assessment of the diverse dynamics that are undermining or nullifying current paradigms of thought and action in globalization studies.

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Nine world-class experts on the African economy share their knowledge regarding the potential for real improvement and growth in food production and the development of grassroots economies that will benefit citizens as well as governments.

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The papers collected here represent the growing range of issues addressed by both economists and psychologists. The collection's main objectives are twofold: to broaden the behavioral basis of economic analysis at a social level and to expand the limits of economic theory's applicability.

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This book examines the issue of debt sustainability from an international perspective, with reference to European countries, emerging nations, and the United States.

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This book presents an analysis of Caribbean fiscal problems, with particular emphasis on the relationship between high levels of public expenditure and balance of payments problems. Other issues raised relate to income distribution and problems of taxation and tax reform.

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Looks at the role of economic and industrial policy in East Asian development, the challenge of the economic meltdown, and the critical issues raised by that meltdown.

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Provides a ground breaking and unique analysis of the development of Public Private Partnerships internationally, with a detailed focus on the rationale behind their introduction and outcomes in Ireland. -- .

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Whether watching baseball or undergoing heart surgery, Americans have bought a variety of goods and services to achieve happiness. Here is a provocative look at what they have chosen to purchase. Stanley Lebergott maintains that the average consumer has behaved more reasonably than many distinguished critics of "materialism" have suggested. He sees

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The first text to examine the use of qualitative research methods in health economics. It introduces students to the methods and demonstrates their application in case studies.

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The first text to examine the use of qualitative research methods in health economics. It introduces students to the methods and demonstrates their application in case studies.

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How do people make judgments about what food is worth eating and what tastes good; how do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality This book offers some answers to these questions from the perspective of the social sciences.

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The book is a collection of nine quantitative studies about Renaissance Florentine economy and society. Topics include plague outbreaks, interest rates, wealth distribution, taxes and subsidies, art history, neighbourhood segregation, competitive markets and monopoly power, women's work and business risk.