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Achievement Evaluation of IFI Assistance Loans to China (1981-2002)

This book represents the first comprehensive study done in China to evaluate the overall performance of IFI assistance to ...

Agricultural Biodiversity and Biotechnology in Economic Development

The topics addressed in this book are of vital importance to the survival of humankind. Agricultural biodiversity, encompassing ...

An Energy Analysis of Household Consumption

The book presents a novel socio-economic approach to analysing the - ergy system and energy consumption in India from a household ...

Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems : Benefits and Risks

With shortages of fossil energy, especially oil and natural gas, and heavy biomass energy use occurring in both developed ...

Bringing Pain Relief to Children

In Bringing Pain Relief to Children: Treatment Approaches, a panel of prominent clinician-scientists comprehensively reviews ...

Capital Markets, Globalization, and Economic Development

The progression of globalization is having profound effects on the capital markets and economic development. The major issues ...

Concepts and Practice of Humanitarian Medicine

As major events like war, epidemics, and climate change continue to push global health issues to the fore, the international ...

Corporate fraud across the globe / Larry Li, Adela McMurray

It is expected that uncovered corporate fraud negatively affects the public reputation, and financial performance of fraudulent ...

Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures

The second edition of this landmark encyclopaedia will contain approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history ...

Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health

This book provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases.

Finance for Food : Towards New Agricultural and Rural Finance

This book reflects the current state of discussion about agricultural and rural finance in developing and transition countries. ...

Foundations for Local Governance

Various forms of decentralization are recently pursued in the world, including developing countries. However, there has not ...

Global Energy Supply and Emissions

offers an authoritative analysis of the state-of-the art in energy and climate research and policy. It starts by describing ...

Global Lessons from the AIDS Pandemic

This book examines the global HIV/AIDS pandemic from a multidisciplinary perspective, analyzing its economic impact, the ...

Globalization and Urban Development

Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched ...

Handbook of Urban Health

As more people worldwide live in cities, increasingly we need to understand how cities and city living affect population ...

How to Practice Academic Medicine and Publish from Developing Countries? : A Practical Guide

The book provides an overview of the state of research in developing countries – Africa, Latin America, and Asia (especially ...

Macroeconomic Risk Management Against Natural Disasters

Natural disasters cause considerable economic damage. While developed countries usually are able to cope with the impacts ...

Marginality : Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology

In this volume economists, ecology experts, geographers, agronomists, sociologist, and business experts come together to ...

Mathematics Teacher Education in the Andean Region and Paraguay

This Open Access book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Bolivia, ...

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