Sistema Bibliotecario Area Metropolitana

Abstract: Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is around 70 years old if we date its first practical application to water resources developments in the USA in the 1930s. The theory of CBA is much older and its origins can be more precisely set in the 1840s with the writings of the French engineer and economist Jules Dupuit.

Abstract: Using a multidisciplinary approach that draws on their in-depth experience in the field of energy, environment, and economics, the authors develop a comprehensive analytical framework. They applay their methodology to four detailed studies of Sri Lanka's energy sector, wich illustrate how to address key energy and environmental policy issues found in many developing counties today. Supplementary case ezamples are presented which also draw on many other countries in Asia and Africa.

Abstract: In this book the two authors assert that MNCs have the critical combination of capabilities required to build investment, grow economies, and create jobs in poor countries, and thus to reduce poverty. Furthermore, they contend, MNCs can do so profitably and thus sustainably.

Abstract: In this book the author provides an antidote: take fifty of today's top economic issues and explain their mening, implications, and potential solutions in a logical, straightforward, commonsense, and non-partisan way.

Abstract: Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the worls. But is it working? This vivid study of indigenous coffee farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico, offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of fair trade. It explorers the changing politics of the international fair international fair trade, illuminating the complex dynamic of this alternative market and its relationshio to the global economy.

Abstract: How can the poorer countries of the world be helped themselves trough freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book, Nobel prize-winning economist Stiglitz and his co-author Charlton present a radical new economic model, designed to open up markets in a way that will allow them to flourish.

Abstract: This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world's most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and sustainability through market-based social change.

Abstract: Fair Trade is at a crucial moment in its evolution from alternative trading mechanism to mainstream economic model. The strategic future of Fair Trade is put under careful scrutiny in this timely and thoughtful book. This book will interest advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students taking courses on business ethics, retail, marketing management ang development economics.

Abstract: The book presents series of interdisciplinary, empirically rich case studies showing how small-scale farmers manage ecosystems and organize collectively as they seek useful collaborations with international NGOs and coffee companies to create opportunities for themselves in the coffee market. The findings demonstrate the interconnections among farmer livelihoods, biodiversity, conservation, and changing coffee market.

Abstract: This reader brings together fourteen of the most important articles on microfinance to have been published since 1990. These contributions illustrate the major developments in microfinance during the period and, together with the editor's introductory analysis, provide an invaluable overview of the field.

Abstract: Microfinance is a powerfull tool for alleviating poverty, enabling poor people to earn a living and take control of their lives. This book provides material and detailed step-by-step guides for twenty-two sessions, including case studies, quantitative exercises and field trips. The sessions cover topics such as sustainability, interest rates, the choice of delivery methodologies and institutiona, impact assessment and delinquency management.

Abstract: This book allows us to understand more clearly the history and content of the current debates about corporate-led economic globalization. But, more than that, it tells what we can do about it -what peolple are already doing about it.

Abstract: Cinque favole che provengono da diversi stati dell'India: I dolcetti di Ganesh dal Maharashtra; La festa del riso dall'Andhra Pradesh; Avanti zucca muoviti dal Madhya Pradesh; Il fantasma goloso dal Kashmir e Shiva e la Vecchia dal Karnataka.

Abstract: The paper explores whether and how current lending-of-last-resort practice can be extended beyond national borders. It argues that what makes lending of last resort effective at the national level is a blend of resources availability, technical discretion, ex-ante supervision, and powers of enforcement.

Abstract: The paper examines the evolution of consumer and business confidence indexes in France, Germany and Italy since the mid-eighties, using regressions of the indexes on a set of common macroeconomic variables for each country. Comparison of the results across agents and across countries highlights some differences in behaviour that have emerged in the last 50 years.

Abstract: This paper analizes the determinants of Italian households' participation in the debt market, considering both demand and supply effects and using the Bank of Italy's Surveey of HouseholdIncome and Weath. The probability of bebt is positively influenced by age (until 35 years), wich essentially acts as a demand factor

Abstract: Credit purchases of consumers goods are commonly made upon terms governed by an agreement between the lender and the seller. This type of purchase is generally subject to a legal principle of joint responsability under which the lender and the seller are jointly liable to the consumer for breach of the sale contract by the seller. Here its show tha joint responsability increases welfare and reduces the incentives of sellers to misrepresent the quality of their products.