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Ryan Short
The Civic Brand

The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place is a bold and practical book that challenges conventional thinking about city-building, tourism, economic development, and community engagement. Au…

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Jason Jackson
Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry

Foreign capital can catalyze economic growth in developing countries but can also be a vehicle for extraction. Jason Jackson shows how Indian officials have navigated this terrain, developing moral discou…

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Ming Hu
Embodied Carbon

The global implications surrounding embodied carbon - the total greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production, transportation, assembly, and deconstruction of building materials - are often over…

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Inequality Around the World

This authoritative two-volume set explores and explains the extent and roots of socioeconomic inequality both within and across nations. Both volumes focus on examining factors that shape the dimensions a…

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Gregory F Randolph
Urbanization from Within

Urbanization is typically narrated as a tale of migration and industrialization--a mass exodus from rural areas to burgeoning cities with centripetal economies. Today, however, many rural settlements are …

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Gregory F Randolph
Urbanization from Within

Urbanization is typically narrated as a tale of migration and industrialization--a mass exodus from rural areas to burgeoning cities with centripetal economies. Today, however, many rural settlements are …

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Peter Sutoris, Uma Pradhan
Reimagining Development

Can development remake itself for today's world?

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Nathan Munier
Zimbabwe's Diamond Trade

What happens when states experience a rapid increase in resource wealth? This book examines the significant diamond find in eastern Zimbabwe in 2006, possibly the largest in over 100 years, and its influe…

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Branko Milanovic
Visions of Inequality

Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key economists, from Quesnay to Kuznets. In their work and lives, we see how differentl…

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Sebastian Edwards
The Chile Project

How Chile became home to the world's most radical free-market experiment-and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globeIn The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the re…

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Naveed Ahmed
The Impact of International Financial Institutions in Pakistan

Naveed Ahmed examines the impact of structural reform strategies of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) on the rule of law, good governance and development in Pakistan.The World Bank, the IMF and …

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Mirya R Holman
The Hidden Face of Local Power

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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Stephanie A Miner
Madam Mayor

Former Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner offers a candid insider look at her trailblazing time in elected office, the pressures and pitfalls of city and state politics, and the true potential of local govern…

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Mirya R Holman
The Hidden Face of Local Power

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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The Domestic Savings Shortfall in Sub-Saharan Africa

Domestic Savings Shortfall in Sub-Saharan Africa aims to increase knowledge about the key drivers of domestic saving rates in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as well as whether alternative approaches, such as p…

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Matt Barlow
Taxing for Development

Taxing for Development shows that tax is a profoundly political problem, associated with debates about the role of the state, the market, and business-state relationships.

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Fragile Aid

This book offers fresh, in-depth understandings of the effectiveness of development cooperation in fragile contexts, and where challenges regarding the effectiveness of development cooperation are most pr…

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You-Tien Hsing
Conserving China's Northwest Frontier

Conserving China's Northwest Frontier offers nuanced accounts of the under-studied and often misunderstood region with fresh perspectives from the ground up.

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Juan Francisco Santini, Flavia Sacco Capurro, Daniel Rogger, Timothy Lundy
Data for Better Governance

This report provides a conceptual framework to assess and provide guidance on the government analytics agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean, and how the region can harvest the benefits of GovTech inv…

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Paul Kellogg
Austerity and Resistance

From December 1995 to summer 1998, Ontario witnessed eleven one-day general strikes and Days of Action across its major cities. These protests were sparked by the so-called Common Sense Revolution associa…

lieferbar ab 30.12.2025.

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