Product Description: Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are increasingly expected to address environmental issues in their economic development lending. Yet the banks have been accused of failing to implement their own environmental policies, thereby contributing to environmental degradation in borrowing countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A review of immediate policy options on a subject of broad international importance - how to feed the Soviet people in a time of collapse of Soviet central authority. Based on a Geonomics Fall 1991 seminar, 12 Western and Soviet experts argue that massive food aid from the West is, at best, a temporary solution...read more

Product Description: The euphoria of the political revolutions of 1989 is increasingly being replaced by a sober reality: building viable economic systems and transforming state enterprises into privately owned businesses in Eastern Europe is exceedingly complicated, difficult and costly...read more