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The state and economic growth : papers of a conference held on October 11-13, 1956, under the auspices of the Committee on Economic Growth

Value-form, and the state : the tendencies of accumulation and the determination of economic policy in capitalist society / by Reuten, G. A.

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The state of food and agriculture 2002

Table of Contents: “…Foreword v Glossary xvii Explanatory note xx PART I World review Current Agricultural Situation - Facts and Figures 3 (35) Trends in undernourishment 3 (3) Crop and livestock production 6 (5) Food shortages and emergencies 11 (3) World cereal supply situation 14 (3) External assistance to agriculture 17 (3) Food aid flows 20 (3) Commodity price trends 23 (6) Fisheries: production, disposition and trade 29 (4) Production and trade of forest products 33 (5) The Global Economy and Agriculture 38 (13) World economic environment 38 (13) World trade and commodity prices 39 (3) Implications of the Fourth World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference for agriculture 42 (6) Notes 48 (3) PART II Regional review Africa 51 (21) Regional overview 51 (6) General economic performance 51 (3) Agricultural performance 54 (3) Women farmers' productivity in sub-Saharan Africa 57 (8) Introduction 57 (1) The role and importance of women farmers 57 (5) Gender differentials in agricultural productivity and constraints facing women farmers 62 (2) Conclusion and policy implications 64 (1) Tsetse and trypanosomiasis control 65 (7) Introduction 65 (1) The direct impact of trypanosomiasis 65 (1) The indirect impacts of the disease 66 (2) Cost-benefit ratios for tsetse control 68 (1) Conclusion 69 (3) Asia and the Pacific 72 (24) Regional overview 72 (5) General economic performance 72 (1) Agricultural performance 73 (4) China's accession to the World Trade Organization and implications for Chinese agricultural policies 77 (19) The changing role of agriculture in the Chinese economy 78 (2) Agricultural policy in the reform period 80 (4) China's WTO accession commitments and provisions related to agriculture 84 (3) Recent policy shifts and likely changes as a result of accession to the WTO 87 (8) Conclusions 95 (1) Latin America and the Caribbean 96 (26) Regional overview 96 (5) General economic performance 96 (1) Recent agricultural performance 97 (4) Changing patterns in agricultural trade 101 (21) Growing importance of agricultural trade relative to production 101 (2) Declining role of agriculture in total merchandise trade 103 (1) Stable regional share in world agricultural trade 104 (1) Diversified product composition of agricultural trade 104 (6) Geographic diversification of markets 110 (1) Agricultural trade balances and their economic significance 111 (6) The price factor 117 (2) Conclusions 119 (3) Near East and North Africa 122 (19) Regional overview 122 (7) General economic performance 122 (1) Agricultural performance 123 (6) Climate variability, aridity and vulnerability to drought 129 (12) Drought -- a structurally recurrent phenomenon in the region 130 (3) Water and land resource issues 133 (1) Impact of recent droughts on crop and livestock production 134 (1) Impact on population livelihood, household income and rural poverty 134 (2) Impact on the environment 136 (1) Government measures for drought prevention and relief of affected groups 137 (2) From reactive crisis management to proactive risk management in agriculture 139 (2) Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States 141 (14) Regional overview 141 (3) Macroeconomic trends and agricultural performance 141 (3) Land and farms in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS in the period of central planning 144 (1) Land and farm reform in Central and Eastern European and CIS countries 145 (10) The establishment of clear and secure rights of land tenure 147 (3) The creation of farms with an efficient ownership and management structure 150 (1) The formation of a class of mid-sized commercial farms 151 (2) Conclusions 153 (2) Developed Market Economies 155 (20) Overview 155 (20) General economic performance 155 (1) Agricultural performance 155 (5) Agricultural policy changes 160 (4) Notes 164 (11) PART III Agriculture and global public goods ten years after the Earth Summit The Role of Agriculture and Land in the Provision of Global Public Goods 175 (14) Introduction 175 (1) Economic concept of local and global public goods 176 (1) Public goods associated with the land-cluster chapters of Agenda 21 177 (1) Progress in the provision of global public goods since Rio-92 178 (4) Financing global public goods 182 (2) The need to increase international financial cooperation for promoting global public goods 184 (4) Conclusions 188 (1) Harvesting Carbon Sequestration Through Land-Use Change: A Way Out of Rural Poverty? …”

Economic valuation with stated preference techniques : a manual /

Transportation : science, technology and development

Markets and states in Tropical Africa by Bates, R.

The welfare state in Europe : challenges and reforms /

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State and local public finance / by Fisher, Ronald C.

Table of Contents: “…PART I Introduction1 Why study state and local government finance?2 Microeconomic analysis: market effiiency and market failurePART II Public choice and fiscal federalism3 Demand for state and local government goods and services4 Public choice without mobility: voting5 Public choice through mobility6 Organization of subnational governmentPART III Provision of state and local goods and services7 Supply of state and local goods and services8 Pricing of government goods: user charges9 Intergovernmental grants10 Capital investment, borrowing, and debtPART IV Revenue for state and local governments11 Principles of tax analysis12 The property tax13 Sales and excise taxes14 Individual income taxes15 Business taxes16 Revenue from government monopoly and regulationPART V Applications and policy analysis17 Education18 Transportation19 Health and welfare20 Economic development…”

Business statistics of the United States, 2010 : patterns of economic change

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NGOs, states, and donors revisited, still too clse for confort

Between power and plenty : foreign economic policies of advanced industrial states /

Economic valuation with stated preference techniques : a manual

Table of Contents: “…The foundations of economic valuation 13 (48) 1.1 The uses of economic valuation 13 (3) 1.2 The nature of economic valuation and economic efficiency 16 (2) 1.3 Economic valuation and other values 18 (2) 1.4 Economic valuation when there are no markets 20 (2) 1.5 Economic valuation and the demand curve 22 (2) 1.6 Willingness to pay and willingness to accept 24 (4) 1.7 Total economic value and aggregation 28 (10) 1.8 Stated preferences and public participation 38 (4) ANNEX 1.1 Benefits transfer and stated preference techniques 42 (10) ANNEX 1.2 Use of stated preference in UK environmental policy: the case of the aggregates levy 52 (3) ANNEX 1.3 Discounting 55 (6) 2. …”

Labor economics by Borjas, Gerge J.

Subjects: “…Labor economics United States…”

The language of trade by Blakeslee, Merritt R., 1946-

The economics of poverty and discrimination by Schiller, Bradley R.

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The poverty of power : energy and the economic crisis by Commoner, Barry

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Essentials of health economics / by Dewar, Diane M.

Subjects: “…Economics, Medical United States.…”

Economics and the American system / by Davies, J. Kenneth

Subjects: “…Economic history United States…”

Economics of the public sector / by Stiglitz, Joseph E.

Economics of the public sector / by Stiglitz, Joseph E.