The design and use of political economy indicators

challenges of definition, aggregation and application

This book addresses a need: the most commonly employed Political Economy Indicators (PEIs) frequently give little useful information and lead to problematic results. This volume will examine measurement issues, relate PEIs to economic theory, and suggest better measures than at present.It is relevant for ...

Las cuentas de la nación I

introducción a la economía aplicada

En el año 1987, Cándido Muñoz publicaba la primera edición de Las cuentas de la nación. Introducción a la economía aplicada. Se pretendía introducir al estudiante de Economía en los conceptos y métodos de las cuentas nacionales. Tal introducción se concebía, siguiendo a J. R ...

Creating food futures

trade, ethics and the environment

Eds. Cathy Rozel Farnworth, Janice Jiggins, Emyr Vaughan Thomas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A global transformation in food supply and consumption is placing our food security at risk. What changes need to be made to the ways we trade, process and purchase our food if everyone in the world ...

Feeding the world

an economic history of agriculture, 1800-2000

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. It has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the ...

Agricultura para el desarrollo

Informe sobre el Desarrollo Mundial 2008

Como viene claramente descrito en el título, el Informe anual de Desarrollo Mundial para el año 2008 del BM está dedicado íntegramente a la Agricultura. Así en el informe se insta a incrementar la inversión en agricultura en los países en desarrollo. Asimismo se advierte ...

The sushi economy

globalization and the making of a modern delicacy

Jumping from Mediterranean docks to the multimillion-dollar tuna auctions of Japanese fish markets, "The Sushi Economy" traces sushi's journey from Tokyo street snack to global delicacy. 8-page photo insert.

Global rice and agricultural trade liberalisation

poverty and welfare omplications for South Asia

Rice has long been one of the most protected commodities in world trade. Now the probable significant liberalisation of trade in rice is likely to have huge welfare implications for many countries dependent on its production and trade, particularly those in South Asia. This book ...

Obesos y famélicos

el impacto de la globalización en el sistema alimentario mundial

Cómo es posible que, si producimos más alimentos que nunca, haya también más hambre que en toda la historia? ¿Cómo es posible que, al mismo tiempo, una epidemia de sobrepeso afecte especialmente a los más pobres del planeta? ¿Por qué hay soja en casi todos ...

El hambre estacional

la lucha silenciosa por los alimentos en el mundo rural más empobrecido

Todos los años, millones de personas que viven en las zonas rurales pobres se ven afectadas por la predecible y evitable hambre estacional. En El hambre estacional se analizan las razones por las que el mundo no reacciona ante una crisis que sabemos se va ...

Sustainability and the civil commons

rural communities in the age of globalization

Often used but little understood, the word 'sustainability' is potent in its ability to evoke a better world based on economic, social, and environmental justice. The concept of sustainability, however, has been strikingly under-theorized. "Sustainability and the Civil Commons" provides what has been lacking since ...

Beyond relief

food security in protracted crises

Eds. Luca Alinovi, Günter Hemrich, Luca Russo. In many countries, prolonged conflicts result in food emergencies that recur over years or even decades. Initial humanitarian relief efforts are rarely replaced by programmes that offer a longer-term perspective on food security. This book provides examples of ...

The Banana

empires, trade wars, and globalization

The banana is the world's most important fresh fruit commodity. The global banana industry began in the late 1880s as a result of technological advances such as refrigerated shipping, which facilitated the transportation of this highly perishable good to distant markets. Since its inception ...

The dragon and the elephant

agricultural and rural reforms in China and India

China and India are the most extraordinary economic success stories of the developing world. Both nations' economies have grown dramatically over the past few decades, elevating them from two of the world's poorest countries into projected economic superpowers. As a result, the numbers of ...

Seasons of hunger

fighting cycles of quiet starvation among the world's rural poor

Every year, millions of the rural poor suffer from predictable and preventable seasonal hunger. This hunger is less dramatic but no less damaging than the starvation associated with famines, wars and natural disasters. "Seasons of Hunger" explores why the world does not react to a ...

Lecciones de economía pesquera

Ed. Fernando González Laxe. Los estudios sobre la economía pesquera nacen como complemento de las investigaciones científicos, para servir de apoyo a las acciones públicas y actuar como soporte de las decisiones empresariales con el fin de determinar los rendimientos y las opciones de inversión ...

Global warming

implications for freshwater and marine fish

Eds. C.M. Wood, D.G. McDonald. Global warming and climate change are growing environmental concerns which are much in the scientific, governmental and public eye. The potential impact on freshwater and marine fishes is immense, because most fish have no physiological ability to regulate ...

Slipping away

banana politics and fair trade in the Eastern Caribbean

During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region's rural communities was ...

El mundo según Monsanto

de la dioxina a los OGM una multinacional que les desea lo mejor

Con una destacada presencia en más de 46 países y unos beneficios impresionantes, Monsanto se ha convertido en la empresa líder de los organismos genéticamente modificados (OGM), así como en una de las compañías más controvertidas de la industria mundial por la fabricación de PCB ...

La nueva ruralidad en América Latina

avances teóricos y evidencias empíricas

Compiladores: Edelmira Pérez C., María Adelaida Farah Q., Hubert C. de Grammont. ¿Una nueva ruralidad en América Latina? expresa, desde su propio título, interrogantes acerca de las impresionantes transformaciones de los procesos agrarios y mundos rurales de estos tiempos neoliberales. El Grupo de Trabajo de ...

Energy in nature and society

general energetics of complex systems

This is a comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthesis to our fossil fuelled civilization and its environmental consequences."Energy in Nature and Society" is a systematic and exhaustive analysis of all the major ...