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Product Description: What are the impacts of population growth? Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world's population by the middle of this century?While it is common to hear about the problems of overpopulation, might there be unexplored benefits of increasing numbers of people in the world? How can we both consider and harness the potential benefits brought by a healthier, wealthier and larger population? May more people mean more scientists to discover how our world works, more inventors and thinkers to help solve the world's problems, more skilled people to put these ideas into practice?In this book, leading academics with a wide range of expertise in demography, philosophy, biology, climate science, economics and environmental sustainability explore the contexts, costs and benefits of a burgeoning population on our economic, social and environmental systems...read more
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9780199677771 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 15, 2014, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: What are the impacts of population growth?
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9780198784876 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 15, 2016, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: What are the impacts of population growth?
Product Description: What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years...read more
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9780198778035 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: What do we mean by development?
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9781250085092 | St Martins Pr, May 24, 2016, cover price $27.99
9781472936370 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, May 19, 2016, cover price $29.35
Product Description: With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before. While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and understood. Rapid urbanization, together with technological leaps, such as the Internet, mean that we are now physically and virtually closer than ever in humanity's history...read more
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9780199693900 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 22, 2013, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before.
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9780199689033 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 24, 2014), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before.
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9780691145723 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 4, 2011, cover price $49.50
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9780691156316 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, August 27, 2012), cover price $24.95
Product Description: Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development are not well understood. This book explores the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies the main globalization processes--trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas--and examines how each can contribute to economic development...read more
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9780199645565 | New edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 6, 2012), cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development are not well understood.
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9780199645572 | New edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 6, 2012), cover price $43.95 | About this edition: Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development are not well understood.
Product Description: Advances in information and communication technology are transforming the way scholarly research is conducted across all disciplines. The use of increasingly powerful and versatile computer-based and networked systems promises to change research activity as profoundly as the mobile phone, the Internet, and email have changed everyday life...read more
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9780262014397, titled "World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities" | New edition (Mit Pr, May 21, 2010), cover price $14.75 | About this edition: Advances in information and communication technology are transforming the way scholarly research is conducted across all disciplines.
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9780262513739, titled "World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities" | New edition (Mit Pr, May 21, 2010), cover price $8.75
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9780262272087 | New edition (Ebrary, July 1, 2010), cover price $66.00
Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood. The book identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies main global flows - trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas - and examines how each can contribute to undermine economic development.By considering what helps and what does not, the book presents policy recommendations to make globalization more effective as a vehicle for shared growth and prosperity. It will be of interest to students, researchers and anyone interested in the effects of globalization in today's economy and in international development issues.
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9780821370308 | Revised edition (World Bank, March 15, 2007), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood.
9780821364017 | World Bank, January 4, 2006, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood.
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9780821369296 | Revised edition (World Bank, March 15, 2007), cover price $39.95
9780821362747, titled "Globalization for Development: Trade, Finance, Aid, Migration and Policy" | World Bank, January 4, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood.
Product Description: Recent theories of economic growth, fiscal policy and the open economy have important implications for "sustainable development." Papers in this volume, derived from a Centre for Economic Policy Research joint conference with the OECD Development Centre, examine the implications of explicitly incorporating resource depletion, pollution abatement and sustainability into orthodox economic theory, while also injecting a macroeconomic debate on the environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521465557 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $67.99 | About this edition: Recent theories of economic growth, fiscal policy and the open economy have important implications for "sustainable development.
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9789264139626 | Organization for Economic, September 1, 1993, cover price $43.00
Product Description: Over the past decade, developing and formerly centrally planned economies have embarked on fundamental economic reforms. The reforms at the macroeconomic level - notably in fiscal, monetary and trade policies - have come under the analytic microscope...read more
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9780312099855 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 1, 1993, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Over the past decade, developing and formerly centrally planned economies have embarked on fundamental economic reforms.
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9780521420563 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $110.00
Product Description: International trade in foods will rise by as much as 100% over the next decade, with most of the increase generated by OECD countries. Developing nations thus face a reduction in food self-sufficiency and consequent rises in their food import bills...read more
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9789264136281 | Organization for Economic, March 1, 1992, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: International trade in foods will rise by as much as 100% over the next decade, with most of the increase generated by OECD countries.
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9789264133662 | Organization for Economic, May 1, 1990, cover price $32.95
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9780582019799 | Addison-Wesley, February 1, 1989, cover price $30.25
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