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Cultural Territorial Systems

Landscape and Cultural Heritage as a Key to Sustainable and Local Development in Eastern Europe

Edited by Francesco Rotondo, Francesco Selicato, Vera Marin, Josefina Lopez Galdeano ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This book seeks to enhance the cultural dimension of sustainable development and particularly focuses on minor historic centers and their natural and rural landscapes. In a society becoming ever more globalized, without territorial restrictions in the production of goods and able to reproduce in China the goods and product characteristic of South American crafts (to mention just two extremes), the ... Read more

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This book seeks to enhance the cultural dimension of sustainable development and particularly focuses on minor historic centers and their natural and rural landscapes. In a society becoming ever more globalized, without territorial restrictions in the production of goods and able to reproduce in China the goods and product characteristic of South American crafts (to mention just two extremes), the
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The Tyranny of Experts

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In this "bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations.In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to ... Read more

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In this "bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations.In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to
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What's Wrong with China

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What’s Wrong with China is the most cogent, insightful and penetrating examination I have read on the paradoxes and self-deceptions of Modern China, written by someone who has lived in the country and dealt with it day to day for decades. This book will be hated by the commissars, because it is a triumph of analysis and good sense.—PAUL THEROUXI sure wish I’d read this book before heading to China ... Read more

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Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment

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Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
Upon its publication in 1989, this was the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Latin American School of Development and an invaluable guide to the major Third World contribution to development theory. The four major strands in the work of Latin American Theorists are: structuralism, internal colonialism, marginality and dependency. Exploring all four in detail, and the ... Read more

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Nature and Wealth

Overcoming Environmental Scarcity and Inequality

by Edward Barbier ...

Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
Drawing on historical and contemporary evidence, this book argues that growing environmental degradation and wealth inequality are linked to how nature is exploited to create economic wealth. Ending the under-pricing of natural capital and insufficient human capital accumulation is essential to overcoming structural imbalance in modern economies. ... Read more

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The Political Economy of State-owned Enterprises in China and India

Edited by X. Yi-chong ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
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Managing Human Resource Development Programs

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by Dries Lesage ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) produced a 2011 report on women in agriculture with a clear and urgent message: agriculture underperforms because half of all farmers—women—lack equal access to the resources and opportunities they need to be more productive. This book builds on the report’s conclusions by providing, for a non-specialist audience, a compendium of ... Read more

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Public Sector Enterprises in India

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by P.K. Jain, Seema Gupta, Surendra S. Yadav ...

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