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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “william a masters”
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  • Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa

    Edited by Kym Anderson, William A. Masters ...
    Series series Trade and Development
    The vast majority of the world's poorest households depend on farming for their livelihoods. During the 1960s and 1970s, most developing countries imposed pro-urban and anti-agricultural policies, while many high-income countries restricted agricultural imports and subsidized their farmers. Both sets of policies inhibited economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Although ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Economics of Agricultural Development

    World Food Systems and Resource Use

    by George W. Norton, Jeffrey Alwang, William A. Masters ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
    Economics of Agricultural Development examines the causes, severity, and effects of poverty, population growth, and malnutrition in developing countries. It discusses potential solutions to these problems, progress made in many countries in recent years, and the implications of globalization for agriculture, poverty, and the environment.Topics covered in the book include:Means for utilizing ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Food Economics

    Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health

    by William A. Masters, Amelia B. Finaret ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Food Economics provides a unified introduction to the economics of agricultural production, business decisions, consumer behavior, and the government policies that shape our food system.This open access textbook begins with economic principles derived using graphical techniques to explain and predict observed prices, quantities, and other outcomes as a result of individual choices influenced by ... Read more

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    by World Bank; Ingco Merlinda; nash John D. ...
    Developing Countries, Agriculture and the WTO explores the key issues and options in agricultural trade liberalization from a developing country perspective. The handbook is of particular interest for both developed and developing countries. Chapters cover market access, domestic support, export competition, quota administration methods, food security, biotechnology, intellectual property rights, ... Read more

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  • The Fastest Billion

    The Story Behind Africa's Economic Revolution

    by Charles Robertson ...
    From the vantage point of many in the West, Africa remains a continent of woe – a place stalked by ethnic conflict, corrupt dictatorships, religious strife, war and famine. But today, at last, the flawed mythology that treats Africa as a homogenous disaster area is being challenged by investors, economists, fund managers and academics. Age is not often associated with speed; but Africa, the cradle ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Growth

    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Economics has failed us ... but there is life after growth!Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Africa Development Indicators 2010: Silent And Lethal: How Quiet Corruption Undermines Africa's Development Efforts

    by World Bank ...
    Reliable quantitative data are essential for understanding economic, social and governance development because it provides evidence, and evidence are crucial to set policies, monitor progress and evaluate results. Africa Development Indicators 2010 (ADI) provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa available. It puts together data from different sources, and is an essential tool for ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Winner Take All

    China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    Newspaper headlines and media commentators scream warnings of the impending doom nearly every day—shortages of arable land, clashes over water, and the political Armageddon as global demand for energy in the form of fossil fuels far outstrips any possible supply. The picture painted is bleak, and the possible impact of commodities markets on how we live is far-reaching, but our grasp of the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Global Agricultural Trade And Developing Countries

    by World Bank ...
    Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries presents research findings based on a series of commodity studies of significant economic importance to developing countries. First, the book sets the stage with background chapters and investigations of cross-cutting issues. Trade and domestic policy regimes affecting agricultural and food markets are described, and the resulting patterns of ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Making Globalization Work

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    "A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better."--Andrew Leonard, SalonFour years after he outlined the challenges our increasingly interdependent world was facing in Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz offered his agenda for reform. Now in paperback, Making Globalization Work offers inventive solutions to a host of problems, including the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Softwood Lumber War

    "Politics, Economics, and the Long U.S.-Canadian Trade Dispute"

    by Daowei Professor Zhang ...
    As a forester interested in economics and policy, Daowei Zhang followed the softwood lumber dispute between the U.S. and Canada for nearly 20 years. Dubbed the 'Softwood Lumber War,' the conflict enveloped politicians and business leaders on both sides of the border and placed strains on the historically close economic and political relations between the two countries. This book is an ... Read more

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  • The Predator State

    How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

    by James K. Galbraith ...
    The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, and free trade are the core elements of this dogma, a dogma so successful that even many liberals accept it. But a funny thing happened on the bridge to the twenty-first century. While liberals continue to ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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