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The new and enlarged edition of this highly acclaimed reader has been completely revised to reflect the major shift in emphasis in sociological thinking that has resulted from the work and research being done in foreign lands by American sociolo[...]
To hide its dramatic findings, the government released its mandated Climate Assessment Report on Black Friday while everyone was out shopping. Melville House is rushing the report into print - including all its charts, graphs, and illustrations[...]
Presentation: " The occurrence of an international migration episode is often associated with a change in the composition of the household of origin of the migrants. We draw on data from Mexico to show how these variations in co-residence choice[...]
4e de couv : "We are told that simply by sipping our morning cup of organic, fair-trade coffee we are encouraging environmentally friendly agricultural methods, community development, fair prices, and shortened commodity chains. But what is the [...]
Back cover: During the 1980s, Chile emabarked on a ground-breaking approach to social policy. Using vouchers, private service providers, and decentralized control of social programs, the country launched bold reforms in education, helath and nut[...]
Alvin W. Gouldner’s new work is a magisterial, critical investigation of the intellectual traditions that now dominate sociology in the United States and Western Europe. It also provides a searching analysis of the Marxist sociological tradition[...]
S. M. Ravi Kanbur ; Antonio Salazar P. Brandao, Author ; Jeffrey Hammer, Author ; Mauro De Rezende Lopes, Author ; Alexandra Tan, Author ; Avishay Braverman, Author | Washington : World Bank | World Bank regional and sectoral studies, ISSN 1564-7838 | 1992Abstract: This is a report on the findings of a World Bank research project on agricultural price stabilization in Brazil. The research proposal was motivated by one policy concern and two sets of methodological issues. The policy concern was ag[...]
Rabah Arezki, Editor ; Catherine Patillo, Editor ; Marc Quintyn, Editor ; Min Zhu, Editor | Washington : International Monetary Fund (IMF) | 2012In the years following the global financial crisis, many low-income countries experienced rapid recovery and strong economic growth. However, many are now facing enormous difficulties because of rapidly rising food and fuel prices, with the thre[...]
Ramiro Pizarro, Author ; United Nations, Editor | Santiago : United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, International Trade and Development Finance Division | 1999The growing participation of developing countries in multilateral trade liberalization, as well as the boom of free trade agreements that grant exclusive preferences to its members, are both closely related to what has been denominated as 'open [...]
Gill, B. I., Publishing director ; Danns, G. K., Publishing director | New York : Lexington Books | 20234th cover on publisher's website: "Using a comparative framework, this edited volume evaluates pressing social issues facing African, Latin American, and Caribbean countries. Unique in its comparative and multi-regional perspective, this book p[...]
Pascale Phelinas ; Camille Ciriez | Clermont-Ferrand : Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international (Cerdi) | Études et Documents Cerdi, ISSN 2114-7957 | 2021-08The objective of this work is to explore the perceptions and attitudes of Brazilians towards the COVID-19 epidemic and to determine the factors that explain what leads individuals to comply with the social distancing measures and b[...]
Ricardo Hausmann, Editor ; Helmut Reisen, Editor | Paris : Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE) | 19964e de couv. : L'Amérique latine est sujette à des chocs économiques qui tendent à compromettre les efforts de développement et introduisent un élément d'incertitude dans la planification économique. Des spécialistes latino-américains et européen[...]
