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41. Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization

    By William Coleman, Alina Sajed

    Series: Routledge Key Guides

    Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization is an outstanding guide to often-encountered thinkers whose ideas have shaped, defined and influenced this new and rapidly growing field. The authors clearly and lucidly survey the life, work and impact of fifty of the most important theorists of...

    Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
42. Foreign Direct Investment and Human Development

    The Law and Economics of International Investment Agreements

    Edited by Olivier De Schutter, Johan Swinnen, Jan Wouters

    Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

    This book presents original research that examines the growth of international investment agreements as a means to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and considers how this affects the ability of capital-importing countries to pursue their development goals. The hope of countries signing such...

    Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
43. The No-Growth Imperative

    Creating Sustainable Communities under Ecological Limits to Growth

    By Gabor Zovanyi

    More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth. Based on such limits, The No-Growth Imperative discounts current efforts to maintain growth through eco-efficiency initiatives and smart-growth...

    Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
44. Regional Cooperation for Inclusive and Sustainable Development

    South and South-West Asia Development Report 2012–2013

    By United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, South and South-West Asia Office

    South and South-West Asia remains one of the fastest growing subregions in the world even though its economic growth has slowed down in 2012 due to a deteriorating global economic environment. Although the subregion continues to push the world’s economic centre of gravity to the East, as India is...

    Published November 23rd 2012 by Routledge India
45. Japan's 'Lost Decade'

    Causes, Legacies and Issues of Transformative Change

    Edited by W. Miles Fletcher III, Peter W. von Staden

    Understanding the 'lost decade' of the 1990s is central to explaining Japan today. Following a period of record high growth, the chronic downturn after 1990 raised fundamental questions about the course of the world's third largest economy. This crisis also presented Japan with the opportunity for...

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
46. Routledge Handbook of Public Policy

    Edited by Eduardo Araral, Scott Fritzen, Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh, Xun Wu

    This Handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the policy process. Written by an outstanding line up of distinguished scholars and practitioners, the Handbook covers all aspects of the policy process including: Theory – from rational choice to the new institutionalism Frameworks –...

    Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
47. Improving International Investment Agreements

    Edited by Armand De Mestral, Céline Lévesque

    Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

    This book presents the reflections of a group of researchers interested in assessing whether the law governing the promotion and protection of foreign investment reflects sound public policy. Whether it is the lack of "checks and balances" on investor rights or more broadly the lack of balance...

    Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
48. Re-reading Hind Swaraj

    Modernity and Subalterns

    Edited by Ghanshyam Shah

    Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest global icons of all times, is known as much for his successful leadership of India’s non-violent anti-colonial freedom movement as for his virtue and simplicity. His ideals have inspired diverse social and political movements across the world: against apartheid...

    Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge India
49. The Bioregional Economy

    Land, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

    By Molly Scott Cato

    In a world of climate change and declining oil supplies, what is the plan for the provisioning of resources? Green economists suggest a need to replace the globalised economy, and its extended supply chains, with a more ‘local’ economy. But what does this mean in more concrete terms? How large is a...

    Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
50. Governing Health in Contemporary China

    By Yanzhong Huang

    Series: China Policy Series

    The lack of significant improvement in people’s health status and other mounting health challenges in China raise a puzzling question about the country’s internal transition: why did the reform-induced dynamics produce an economic miracle, but fail to reproduce the success Mao had achieved in the...

    Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge