Autore	Dodds Walter
Edizione	[1st ed. 2019.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xi, 146 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Disciplina	519.5
Soggetto topico	Statistics Geoecology Environmental geology Infectious diseases Natural resources Economic development Culture Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences Geoecology/Natural Processes Infectious Diseases Natural Resource and Energy Economics Development and Health Sociology of Culture
ISBN	3-030-30410-8 9783030304102
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Global problems -- Chapter3. Apocalypse -- Chapter4. Disease Now and Potential Future Pandemics -- Chapter5. Hunger -- Chapter6. Nuclear Weapons -- Chapter7. Global environment in the Anthropocene -- Chapter8. By the Numbers: Ranking the Problems -- Chapter9. What do other people think the worst problems in the world are? -- Chapter 10. Progress toward solving the problems and potential costs of solutions -- Chapter11. Technochimp: An African savannah survivor looking for solutions in the modern world Our inability to see the big picture; it never mattered before, why does it now? -- Chapter12. International cooperation -- Chapter13. Consilience, global socioeconomic political enlightenment, and socioenvironmental restoration.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910360848203321

Autore	Adelman Jeremy
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (761 p.)
Disciplina	330.092 B
Soggetto topico	Economists Economics Economic development
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4008-4684-6 1-299-16002-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Garden; 2 Berlin Is Burning; 3 Proving Hamlet Wrong; 4 The Hour of Courage; 5 Crossings; 6 Of Guns and Butter; 7 The Last Battle; 8 The Anthill; 9 The Biography of a File; 10 Colombia Years; 11 Following My Truth; 12 The Empirical Lantern; 13 Sing the Epic; 14 The God Who Helped; 15 The Cold Monster; 16 Man, the Stage; 17 Body Parts; 18 Disappointment; 19 Social Science for Our Grandchildren; 20 Reliving the Present; CONCLUSION; AFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY; INDEX
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452264903321

Autore	Milanović Branko
Edizione	[Course Book]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina	330.9
Soggetto topico	Income distribution Economic development Globalization Equality
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-13479-9 9786613134790 1-4008-4081-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Promise of the Twentieth Century -- Introduction: A Topic Whose Time Has Come -- PART I: SETTING THE STAGE -- Chapter 1. The Three Concepts of Inequality Defined -- Chapter 2. Other Differences between the Concepts -- Chapter 3. International and World Inequality Compared -- PART II: INEQUALITY AMONG COUNTRIES -- Chapter 4. Rising Differences in Per Capita Incomes -- Chapter 5. Regional Convergence, Divergence, or . . . "Vergence" -- Chapter 6. The Shape of International GDP Per Capita Distribution -- Chapter 7. Winners and Losers: Increasing Dominance of the West -- PART III: GLOBAL INEQUALITY -- Chapter 8. Concept 2 Inequality: Decreasing in the Past Twenty Years -- Chapter 9. High Global Inequality: No Trend? -- Chapter 10. A World without a Middle Class -- PART IV: CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- Chapter 11. The Three Concepts of Inequality in Historical Perspective -- Chapter 12. Why Does Global Inequality Matter and What to Do about It? -- Appendixes 1-7 -- Notes -- References -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453283503321

Autore	Sharma Sachin Kumar
Edizione	[1st ed. 2016.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (XXXI, 218 p. 44 illus.)
Disciplina	338.1
Soggetto topico	Agricultural economics Development economics International relations Economic development Public policy Food—Biotechnology Agricultural Economics Development Economics International Relations Development Studies Public Policy Food Science
ISBN	981-10-2179-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Domestic Support Under Agreement on Agriculture -- Chapter 3. Food Security and Agriculture Sector -- Chapter 4. China: Product Specific Support to Wheat under WTO Regime -- Chapter 5. Egypt: Product-Specific Support to Wheat Under WTO Regime -- Chapter 6. India: Product specific Support to Wheat and Rice Under WTO Regime -- Chapter 7. Indonesia: Product specific Support to Rice under WTO -- Chapter 8. Jordan: Product specific Support to Wheat under WTO Regime -- Chapter 9. Kenya: Product specific Support to Maize Under WTO Regime -- Chapter 10. Morocco: Product specific Support to Wheat Under WTO Regime -- Chapter 11. Pakistan: Product specific Support to Wheat Under WTO Regime -- Chapter 12. Tunisia: Product specific Support to Wheat Under WTO Regime -- Chapter 13. Turkey: Product specific Support to Wheat under WTO Regime -- Chapter 14. Zambia: Product specific Support to Maize under WTO Regime -- Chapter 15. Zimbabwe: Product specific Support to Maize under WTO Regime -- Chapter 16. Conclusion and Way Forward.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910254892503321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Canberra, ACT : , : ANU Press, , 2022
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	951.6
Soggetto topico	Economic development Economic history International relations
ISBN	1-76046-495-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910522595603321