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  • Human Development and the Path to Freedom

    1870 to the Present

    by Leandro Prados de la Escosura ...
    Series series New Approaches to Economic and Social History
    How has human development evolved during the last 150 years of globalization and economic growth? How has human development been distributed across countries? How do developing countries compare to developed countries? Do social systems matter for wellbeing? Are there differences in the performance of developing regions over time? Employing a capabilities approach, Human Development and the Path ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • A Millennial View of Spain’s Development

    Essays in Economic History

    by Leandro Prados de la Escosura ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book presents the evolution of the Spanish economy over the past seven centuries since the end of the Reconquest and examines how much economic progress has Spain achieved, as well as its impact on living standards and income distribution over the very long run. It shows that preindustrial Spain was far from stagnant, although levels of output per head in the early nineteenth ... Read more

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  • Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 1

    Systems and Science

    by Prof Amir Kassam, Dr L. B. dos S. Canalli, Dr R. Bunch, Dr D. dos S. Rheinheimer, Dr Peter Hobbs, Dr Christian Thierfelder, Dr Patrick C. Wall, Dr Raj Gupta, Dr Jamil Abdalla Fayad, Dr Jucinei José Comin0, Dr Alvaro Mafra1, Dr Claudinei Kurtz2, Dr Samira Jamil Fayad3, Dr Nuno Rodrigues Madeira4, Dr Darlan Marcheze5, Dr Leandro do Prado Wildner6, Dr Arcangelo Loss7, Dr Cledimar Rogério Lourenzi8, Dr Monique Souza9, Dr Guilherme Wilbert Ferreira0, Dr Laila Kassam1, Dr Sim Choon Cheak2, Dr Zaharah A. Rahman3, Dr Julio Roman-Vazquez4, Dr Francisco Marquez-Garcia5, Dr Rosa Carbonell-Bojollo6, Dr Oscar Veroz-Gonzalez7, Dr Dennis P. Garrity8, Dr John N. Landers9, Dr Pedro Luiz de Freitas0, Dr Luiz Carlos Balbino1, Dr Rolf Derpsch2, Dr Júlio César Salton3, Dr Robélio Leandro Marchão4, Dr Augusto Guilherme de Araújo5, Dr Brian Sims6, Dr Jack Desbiolles7, Dr Denizart Bolonhezi8, Dr Enamul Haque9, Dr He Jin0, Dr Josef Kienzle1, Dr Hongwen Li2, Dr Theodor Friedrich3, Dr Oussama El Gharras4, Prof Richard Bell5, Dr Roberto Peiretti6, Dr Saidi Mkomwa7, Dr Juliana Albertengo8, Dr Tom Goddard9, Dr Muratbek Karabayev0, Dr Don Reicosky1, Dr Ken Moriya2, Dr Hendrik Smith3, Dr Ademir Calegari4, Dr T. Tiecher5, Dr E. B. Wutke6, Mr Marcelo Zanella7, Professor Gottlieb Basch8, Professor Sjoerd W. Duiker9, Professor Emilio J. González-Sánchez0 ...
    Series Book 61 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Reviews the development of CA systems globally and elaborates on science underlying the key CA system components.Assesses the latest evidence on improving soil and crop health and CA system resilience through the application of the core CA system principles.Includes case studies reviewing current science on optimising CA cropping systems involving cereal, legume, horticultural and tree crops as ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

  • Exceptionalism and Industrialisation

    Britain and its European Rivals, 1688–1815

    Edited by Leandro Prados de la Escosura ...
    This 2004 book explores the question of British exceptionalism in the period from the Glorious Revolution to the Congress of Vienna. Leading historians examine why Great Britain emerged from years of sustained competition with its European rivals in a discernible position of hegemony in the domains of naval power, empire, global commerce, agricultural efficiency, industrial production, fiscal ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • Spanish Economic Growth, 1850–2015

    by Leandro Prados de la Escosura ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Economic History
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction of production and expenditure series for the century prior to the introduction of modern national accounts. The author splices ... Read more

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    by Jeffrey Mr. Franks, Randa Miss Sab, Valerie Ms. Mercer-Blackman, Roberto Benelli ...
    Following some historical background, this paper describes how corruption is manifested in Paraguay. The paper distinguishes between factors that explain the growth performance of Paraguay since 1960 (where corruption does not directly enter as a significant factor) and factors that explain the relative level of income of Paraguay in the past 40 or 50 years compared with other countries. It then ... Read more

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  • Economic Policy and Human Rights

    Holding Governments to Account

    by Sarah Gammage, Nursel Aydiner-Avsar, Lourdes Colinas, Alberto Serdan-Rosales, Gabriel Lara, James Heintz, Carlos Salas, Daniela Ramirez Camacho, Roberto Constantino, Kristina Parker ...
    Economic Policy and Human Rights presents a powerful critique of three decades of neoliberal economic policies, assessed from the perspective of human rights norms. In doing so, it brings together two areas of thought and action that have hitherto been separate: progressive economics concerned with promoting economic justice and human development; and human rights analysis and advocacy.Focussing ... Read more

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  • Keeping The Promise Of Social Security In Latin America

    by Gill Indermit S. ; Packard Truman G. ; Yermo Juan ...
    Empirical analysis of two decades of pioneering pension and social security reform in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that much has been achieved, but that critical challenges remain. In tackling this unfinished agenda, a great deal can be learned from the reform experience of countries in the region. Keeping the Promise, produced by the chief economist's office in the Latin America and ... Read more

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  • Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy

    A Historical Perspective

    by Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Jaime Ros ...
    This book is the first comprehensive and systematic English-language treatment of Mexico's economic history to appear in nearly forty years. Drawing on several years of in-depth research, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros, two of the foremost experts on the Mexican economy, examine Mexico's current development policies and problems from a historical perspective. They review long-term trends in ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Contemporary Spain

    From Miracle to Mirage

    Edited by Luis Buendía, Ricardo Molero-Simarro ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    The so-called ‘Spanish miracle’, beginning in the mid-1990s, eventually became a nightmare for the majority of the population, culminating in the present-day economic and political crisis. This book explores the main features of the Spanish political-economic model during both the growth and crisis periods.Analyzing the causes and consequences of the continuing economic crisis in Spain, this book ... Read more

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  • Natural Disasters, Foreign Trade and Agriculture in Mexico

    Public Policy for Reducing Economic Vulnerability

    by Sergio O. Saldaña Zorrilla, PhD ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This work responds to the increasing global need of measuring and analyzing impacts, vulnerabilities and coping capacity of countries, regions and communities regarding climate change, extreme weather conditions, natural disasters and institutional constraints. The case of Mexico, analyzed in this work, provides lessons for further developing countries to assess natural disasters vulnerability, ... Read more

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  • Central America: Challenges Following the 2008-09 Global Crisis

    by Marco Mr. Pinon, Alejandro Mr. López Mejía, Mario Garza, Fernando Mr. Delgado ...
    Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic coped well with the global financial crisis of 2008-09. The impact was generally less severe and shorter lived than in previous episodes, the balance of payments adjustment was orderly, and the stability of the financial system was not compromised. This resilience can be attributed to a large extent to the strengthening of the fiscal frameworks, ... Read more

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