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Aspects of Poverty and Inequality in Cameroon
Poverty and inequality remain extremely high for Cameroon despite improvements in poverty figures between 1996 and 2001. To understand the dynamics of poverty and inequality between 1996 and 2001, this book develops a poverty and inequality profile, investigates the sources of inequality along spatial lines and simulates some policies which could be used in the reduction of poverty and inequali…
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- 9783631753514
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- Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics,
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An analysis of current and future electricity production from biogas in Germany
In this work a process simulation model identifies the most profitable German biogas plant types and sizes. Small manure and large-scale biowaste plants are currently the most economically attractive installations whereas the valorization of energy crops turns out to be unprofitable. Future developments are assessed with the help of a regional optimization model under constraints. Capacity expa…
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- 9783731510352
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Asian Transformations
Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, in 1968. He was deeply pessimistic about development prospects in Asia. The fifty years since then have witnessed a remarkable social and economic transformation in Asia – even if it has been uneven across countries and unequal between people – that would have been difficult to imagine, let alone p…
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Asian Economic Integration in an Era of Global Uncertainty
The Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) conference series has been at the forefront of analysing challenges facing the economies of East Asia and the Pacific since its first meeting in Tokyo in January 1968. The 38th PAFTAD conference met at a key time to consider international economic integration. Earlier in the year, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and t…
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- 9781760461768,
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Asian Century… on a Knife-edge
Asian Century; Asia's middle class; Urbanisation in Asia; Asian demographic challenges; Democracy and politics in Asia; Asia's global value chains; Economic crime in Asia; Power transition in Asia; China and US rivalry; Inclusive growth in Asia
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Bioenergy and Biochar: Repurposing Waste to Sustainable Energy and Materials
Dear Colleagues,All types of biomass, and their waste, comprised one the pillars of the preindustrial,pre-fossil fuel, agriculture-based economies of the past. Traditionalpractices of biomass waste management were applied, but not necessarily in asophisticated and efficient way, and included everything from agricultural activitiesto food production, animal feed, natural fiber separation, and pr…
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- 9783036518565, 9783036518558
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Bioeconomy challenges and implementation: the European research organisations…
This book focuses on opportunities and challenges in implementing a bioeconomy strategy from a research and education perspective. It draws on contributions presented during the 30th EURAGRI annual conference held in Tartu (Estonia) in September 2016, as well as on other workshops organised as part of EURAGRI. EURAGRI is an informal gathering of EU research and higher education organisations an…
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- 9782759228355
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- Agricultural and rural economics
Alternative Pathways to Complexity
"[T]he volume represents an important contribution to the examination of issues for which Blanton has furthered scholarship, organized as three sections with cases from Mesoamerica, the Old World, and cross-cultural studies." -American Antiquity. Alternative Pathways to Complexity focuses on the themes of architecture, economics, and power in the evolution of complex societies. Case studies f…
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- 9781607325338
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Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities : Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass…
This open access book focuses on the meanings, agendas, as well as the local and global implications of bioeconomy and bioenergy policies in and across South America, Asia and Europe. It explores how a transition away from a fossil and towards a bio-based economic order alters, reinforces and challenges socio-ecological inequalities. The volume presents a historically informed and empirically r…
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- 978-3-030-68943-8
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Art Cities, Cultural Districts and Museums
The subject of economic valorisation has become a current topic and the idea that culture can be considered a factor of economic production, able to generate wealth, appears to have been generally accepted. The book consists of a series of essays about the economic valorisation of the cultural, artistic and environmental heritage of the art city of Florence using a business economics approach a…
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