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Product Description: The current global-justice literature starts from the premise that world poverty is the result of structural injustice mostly attributable to past and present actions of governments and citizens of rich countries. As a result, that literature recommends vast coercive transfers of wealth from rich to poor societies, alongside stronger national and international governance...read more

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9781107115866 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2015, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: The current global-justice literature starts from the premise that world poverty is the result of structural injustice mostly attributable to past and present actions of governments and citizens of rich countries.

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9781107536029 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2015, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: The current global-justice literature starts from the premise that world poverty is the result of structural injustice mostly attributable to past and present actions of governments and citizens of rich countries.

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Product Description: Economic inequality has recently gained considerable academic attention. However, two important aspects of inequality have not been discussed systematically: its multidimensional nature and the question of what can be done to reverse it...read more
By Christoph Scherrer (editor)

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9781138916852 | Routledge, December 21, 2015, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Economic inequality has recently gained considerable academic attention.

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By Tanja Bastia (editor)

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9780415686853 | Routledge, February 11, 2013, cover price $160.00
9780405052613, titled "Jewish Marriage Contract a Study in the Status of the Woman in Jewish Law" | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1973, cover price $36.95 | also contains Jewish Marriage Contract a Study in the Status of the Woman in Jewish Law

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9781138902282 | Routledge, February 27, 2015, cover price $59.95

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Product Description: Originally published in 1932, this book examines how hormones and nervous impulses affect the body, with special reference to animals with colour-changing abilities. Parker gives examples from various areas of the animal kingdom, both vertebrates and invertebrates, to demonstrate how the stimulation of certain sensory organs and nerves can produce very different effects and to draw wider conclusions about the role that 'nervous secretion' can play in other physiological operations...read more

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9780415019989, titled "Corruption, Development, and Inequality: Soft Touch or Hard Graft" | Routledge, June 1, 1989, cover price $70.00 | also contains Corruption, Development, and Inequality: Soft Touch or Hard Graft | About this edition: Examines the vigorous debate which is prevalent in development studies circles as to whether corruption in all cases is detrimental to the interests of the poor or whether, in some cases, corruption might actually facilitate development.

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9781107502291 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 9, 2015, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Originally published in 1932, this book examines how hormones and nervous impulses affect the body, with special reference to animals with colour-changing abilities.

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Product Description: This book explores the increasing use of Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) in emerging democratic governments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Oceania. CDFs dedicate public money to benefit parliamentary constituencies through allocations and/or spending decisions influenced by Members of Parliament (MPs)...read more
By Mark Baskin (editor) and Michael L. Mezey (editor)

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9780739180686 | Lexington Books, October 23, 2014, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This book explores the increasing use of Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) in emerging democratic governments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Oceania.

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9780132236607, titled "Economics of Developing Countries" | 2nd edition (Prentice Hall, May 1, 1990), cover price $88.40 | also contains Economics of Developing Countries

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Product Description: Over the past century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty, but climate change could challenge poverty reduction efforts. On the Poverty and Welfare Impacts of Climate Change: Quantifying the Effects, Identifying the Adaptation Strategies surveys the relevant research on how climate change may affect global poverty rates and presents country-specific studies with implications for low-income rural populations as well as governments’ risk management programs...read more

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9780821396117 | World Bank, August 2, 2012, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Over the past century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty, but climate change could challenge poverty reduction efforts.

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Product Description: E. Wayne Nafziger analyzes the economic development of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and East-Central Europe. The book is suitable for those with a background in economics principles. Nafziger explains the reasons for the recent fast growth of India, Poland, Brazil, China, and other Pacific Rim countries, and the slow, yet essential, growth for a turnaround of sub-Saharan Africa...read more

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9780521765480 | 5th edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 26, 2012), cover price $74.99 | About this edition: E.
9780521829663 | 4th edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 31, 2006), cover price $114.00

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Product Description: Since the Second World War the world has seen an economic growth spurt unprecedented in history. Economic growth is a necessary but not sufficient condition for improving human development, or in other words, economic growth is an important pre-requisite for the ultimate goal of human well-being...read more

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9783631572559 | 1 edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 7, 2008), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Since the Second World War the world has seen an economic growth spurt unprecedented in history.

Product Description: This is a fresh contribution to what we know about the role of poverty and low income in the health of individuals and households in developing countries. This book presents the reader with a clear picture of the key aspects of the relationship between poverty, health and health care...read more

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9780415376716 | Routledge, October 24, 2014, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This is a fresh contribution to what we know about the role of poverty and low income in the health of individuals and households in developing countries.

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9780415376723 | 1 edition (Routledge, April 30, 2013), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This is a fresh contribution to what we know about the role of poverty and low income in the health of individuals and households in developing countries.

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By Michael Dauderstadt (editor) and Arne Schildberg (editor)

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9783593381541 | 1 edition (Campus Verlag Gmbh, November 15, 2006), cover price $30.00

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Product Description: This book examines the impact of globalization on employment, income distribution and poverty reduction in developing countries using the five country studies of Ghana, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Nepal and Vietnam, looking at the evidence for targeted economic and social policies both at national and international levels...read more
By Eddy Lee (editor) and Marco Vivarelli (editor)

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9780230007833 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 3, 2006, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This book examines the impact of globalization on employment, income distribution and poverty reduction in developing countries using the five country studies of Ghana, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Nepal and Vietnam, looking at the evidence for targeted economic and social policies both at national and international levels.

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Product Description: In rural societies, passing down land and providing an education are the main ways parents assure the future welfare of their children. If, however, parents educate their sons and not their daughters and only sons inherit land, women will be worse off compared to men...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780801878428 | Intl Food Policy Research Inst, November 19, 2003, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: In rural societies, passing down land and providing an education are the main ways parents assure the future welfare of their children.

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Presents articles which address both sides of the debate about whether the global economy harms or helps the poor.
By Julie Clark (editor) and William Driscoll (editor)

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9780972054102 | Intl Debate Education Assn, February 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents articles which address both sides of the debate about whether the global economy harms or helps the poor.

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Product Description: This excellent new book contains contributions from a number of leading experts and is the result of the UNU/WIDER project on globalization and low-income countries. The discussion focuses in on how to harness globalization for the benefit of present day marginalized countries and enhance their meaningful participation in the globalization process...read more

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9780415288507 | Routledge, October 1, 2002, cover price $250.00 | About this edition: This excellent new book contains contributions from a number of leading experts and is the result of the UNU/WIDER project on globalization and low-income countries.

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Product Description: Most of the world's people live in "developing" economies, as do most of the world's poor. The predominant means of economic development is economic growth. In this book Gary Fields asks to what extent and in what circumstances economic growth improves the material standard of living of a country's people...read more

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9780262062152 | Mit Pr, January 22, 2001, cover price $67.50

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9780262561532 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, August 7, 2002), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Most of the world's people live in "developing" economies, as do most of the world's poor.

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Product Description: In this book Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co-author Raaj Sah address one of development's major issues. Most of today's countries face town versus country tensions of increasing severity, including such issues as who should pay how much in taxes, who should get how much in subsidies, and what forms the taxes and subsidies should take...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780198285816 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 11, 1993, cover price $96.00 | About this edition: From the historical perspective, the two central problems facing most of the developing countries are: Who should bear the burden of the costs of development?

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9780199253579 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 11, 2002, cover price $73.00 | About this edition: In this book Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co-author Raaj Sah address one of development's major issues.

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Product Description: Yunker sets forth the case for initiation of a massive foreign development assistance effort termed the World Economic Equalization Program (WEEP). The scale of the program would dwarf that of all historical foreign aid programs, yet the proposed contributions by the donor nations would not be unmanageable...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780275968359 | Praeger Pub Text, May 1, 2000, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Yunker sets forth the case for initiation of a massive foreign development assistance effort termed the World Economic Equalization Program (WEEP).

Written in exceptionally clear language, this comprehensive introduction to development economics features an abundance of real-world examples. It focuses on real problems of developing countries and their people.

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9780135734605 | 3rd edition (Prentice Hall, April 1, 2000), cover price $38.32 | also contains Reflections on Time and Politics
9780133399950, titled "The Economics of Developing Countries" | 3 sub edition (Prentice Hall, December 1, 1996), cover price $193.33 | About this edition: Written in exceptionally clear language, this comprehensive introduction to development economics features an abundance of real-world examples.

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Product Description: This text explores the notion of a technological system and more specifically the distinction between modern and traditional technological systems. Using highly disaggregated data for a range of sectors and developing countries, this distinction has been applied to micro as well as macro-economy issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780312210748 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 1998, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This text explores the notion of a technological system and more specifically the distinction between modern and traditional technological systems.

By A. S. Bhalla (editor)

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9780312212780 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 1, 1998, cover price $75.00
9780333728147 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 8, 1998, cover price $209.00

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9781349266777 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $199.00

Product Description: Using the most up-to-date statistics, this user-friendly text draws on the postwar experience of five main types of developing countries to explain the policies necessary to achieve rapid, equitable and sustainable economic growth...read more

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9780470235188 | Halsted Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Using the most up-to-date statistics, this user-friendly text draws on the postwar experience of five main types of developing countries to explain the policies necessary to achieve rapid, equitable and sustainable economic growth.
9780340595022 | Hodder Education, November 15, 1994, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This authoritative new study provides a unique comparative analysis of postwar economic performance within the developing world.

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