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Globalisation and poverty : channels and policy responses
The consequences of globalization for the world's poor are uncertain and fierce rhetoric is dividing its supporters and detractors. The channels of effect of essentially macroeconomic shocks on the microeconomic position of individuals and households in poor countries are many and various. This book addresses three core issues: 1) what are the main channels of effect? 2) what are the lessons…
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- 9780203088333
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- xviii, 232p. : ill.
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- 339.46091724 GLO g
Taste, power, tradition: geographical indications as cultural property
The idea of origin in terms of space and culture as a special indicator of quality is one of the most influential strands in contemporary food. It impacts on politics, economics and everyday life – and it connects these fields with complex relations of power and culture. With geographical indications, the EU offers an instrument which allows for the declaration of specialties, qualified by…
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- 9783863952082
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- 132 page : ill.; 24 cm.
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- Gottinger Studien zu Cultural Property ; 10
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- 641 TAS t
Greening China : the benefits of trade and foreign direct investment
China has earned a reputation for lax environmental standards that allegedly attract corporations more interested in profit than in moral responsibility and, consequently, further negate incentives to raise environmental standards. Surprisingly, Ka Zeng and Joshua Eastin find that international economic integration with nation-states that have stringent environmental regulations facilitates the…
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- 9780472901197
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- 239p. : ill.
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- 333.720951 ZEN g
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