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Series Statement: Asia in Transition Series ; v.26

Note: Intro -- Prologue -- My Research Journey with the Belt and Road Initiative -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- 1 China's Push for the BRI in a Changing World: Origins and Motivations -- 1.1 Unveiling of the Belt and Road Initiative: How Significant Is It? -- 1.2 Motivations and Rationale Behind China's BRI Implementation -- 1.3 Issues and Challenges to China's New Silk Road Initiatives -- 1.4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 2 BRI as China's Platform to Push for Economic Globalisation -- 2.1 Globalisation Characterised by Interconnection and Interconnectivity -- 2.2 Driving Forces Behind China's Push for Economic Globalisation -- 2.3 Infrastructure Development and Connectivity in the BRI Countries -- 2.4 Limitations of China's Push for Economic Globalisation -- 2.5 The Systemic Risks of Globalisation and Call for National Resilience -- 2.6 The Era of Globalisation Calls for a New Type of Global Governance System -- References -- 3 China-ASEAN Cooperation Under the BRI -- 3.1 Southeast Asia and ASEAN -- 3.2 China's Relations with ASEAN: From the Past to Present -- 3.3 China-ASEAN Free Trade Area -- 3.4 The Impacts of China-US Rivalry on ASEAN -- 3.5 The Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia -- 3.6 Challenges for BRI Implementation in Southeast Asia -- References -- 4 Vietnam's Mixed Reactions to China and the BRI -- 4.1 Overview of the China-Vietnam Economic Relations -- 4.2 The Belt and Road Initiative in Vietnam -- 4.3 The Impacts of the China-US Trade War on Vietnam -- 4.4 The Case of Vietnam's Electronics Industry -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- 5 The China-Singapore Chongqing Connectivity Project: A Cornerstone for Bilateral Relations -- 5.1 Literature Review on the Chinese Provinces' Ties with ASEAN. , 5.2 The Role of Chinese Provinces in China-ASEAN Relations -- 5.3 Overview of the China-Singapore Relations -- 5.4 Chongqing Connectivity Project and the Western Corridor -- 5.5 Building the Western Corridor Requires the Participation of More Partners -- References -- 6 Riding on the BRI Train: Issues Relating to China's Strengthening Ties with Cambodia -- 6.1 Bilateral Political Relations Between China and Cambodia -- 6.2 China's Strengthening Economic Ties with Cambodia Under the BRI -- 6.3 Positive Effects of Chinese Investments in Cambodia -- 6.4 Issues and Challenges Under BRI Implementation -- References -- 7 China's Efforts to Deepen Its Ties with the Middle Eastern Countries: The Case of Saudi Arabia and Iran -- 7.1 Xi's Visit to Saudi Arabia -- 7.2 Energy as the Core of the Bilateral Ties Between China and Saudi Arabia -- 7.3 China's Ties with the Middle Eastern Countries Under the BRI -- 7.4 The Saudi Arabia-Iran Deal Mediated by China: A Major Geopolitical Shift in the Middle East -- 7.5 Limitations of the Sino-Saudi Economic Ties -- 7.6 Xi's Call for RMB Settlements for Energy Trading and China's RMB Internationalization Strategy -- 7.7 Sino-Saudi Defence Ties -- 7.8 Conclusion -- References -- 8 G7's Plan for Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment: An Alternative to the BRI? -- 8.1 Sino-US Strategic Competition and the U.S.'s "Indo-Pacific Strategy" -- 8.2 The U.S. To Compete with China on Infrastructure Financing and Construction -- 8.3 What is the PGII All About? -- 8.4 The Infrastructure Investment Push Amidst the China-U.S. Rivalry -- 8.5 Unfolding of Competing Regional and Global Connectivity Initiatives -- References -- 9 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's Role in Regional Infrastructure Financing -- 9.1 Establishment of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. , 9.2 The AIIB's "Asian First" Characteristic -- 9.3 China's Role in the AIIB -- 9.4 The AIIB's Lending Operation in Practice -- 9.5 Moving Forward -- References -- 10 Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 in the Making: How Far Can It Go? -- 10.1 Readjustment of BRI Implementation -- 10.1.1 Renewable Energy Sector -- 10.1.2 Health Care -- 10.2 BRI Implementation in Central Asia -- 10.3 China's Economic Ties with Central Asia: Development and Issues -- 10.4 Readjustment of BRI Implementation in Central Asia -- 10.5 Conclusion -- References -- 11 Reflections on the Belt and Road Initiative at Its 10th Anniversary -- 11.1 BRI Remains Central to China's Foreign Policy Agenda -- References -- Index.

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Content: While polluted surface water is encountered across most of China, few economic valuation studies have been conducted on water quality changes. Limited information about the economic values associated with those potential water quality improvements or deteriorations is a disadvantage for making proper choices in water pollution control and clean-up activities. This paper reports an economic valuation study conducted in Yunnan, China, which aims to estimate the total value of a real investment project to improve the water quality of Lake Puzhehei by one grade level. Located in Qiubei County, which is far from large cities, the lake has been experiencing fast water quality deterioration in the past years. A conservative estimation strategy shows that on average a household located in Qiubei County is willing to pay about 30 yuan per month continuously for 5 years for water quality improvement, equivalent roughly to 3 percent of household income. The elasticity of willingness-to-pay with respect to income is estimated to be 0.21. The economic rate of return of the proposed project is estimated to be 18 percent, indicating a strong demand and high efficiency of investment in water quality improvement in China. This study also demonstrates that previous knowledge about water quality changes and the project may have a significant positive impact on people's valuation, and that the interviewer effect on valuation can be negative.

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Content: This paper has three primary objectives: (i) to investigate potential problems regarding Mozambique's most recent nationally representative household survey on poverty dynamics; (ii) to assess the robustness and reliability of official poverty statistics; and (iii) to provide alternative estimates of poverty and welfare indicators in light of the methodological and analytical issues raised in areas (i) and (ii). It is determined that at least two significant weaknesses affect the official poverty-rate estimates: measurement errors in consumption data and flaws in the methodology used to calculate poverty lines (the cost-of-basic-needs approach based on provincial food bundles with entropy correction). A number of observations appear to be affected by substantial measurement errors, which severely distort the official poverty statistics. The paper provides methods to correct the consumption distribution by recalculating poverty lines based on a single national food basket - as opposed to the current estimates, which are based on province-specific food baskets. The revised poverty statistics differ considerably from the official estimates of poverty across provinces and are far more consistent with other poverty indicators. In addition, poverty appears to be highly concentrated in certain areas, with dramatically higher rates found in Central and Northern Mozambique, as well as in rural areas overall, compared with relatively low rates in Southern Mozambique and in the country's urban centers. These findings substantially contradict the government's official poverty figures, which appear to systematically overestimate poverty rates in Mozambique's Southern provinces and urban areas while simultaneously underestimating the prevalence of poverty in the country's Central and Northern regions and in rural areas nationwide.

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Content: The report seeks to analyze what has been learned about how agricultural interventions influence nutrition outcomes in low-and middle-income countries, focusing on the target populations of the millennium development goals-people living on less than a dollar a day. It also sets out to synthesize lessons from past efforts to improve the synergies between agriculture and nutrition outcomes. The report identifies a number of developments in agriculture and nutrition that have transformed the context in which nutrition is affected by agriculture. The relationship between agriculture and human nutrition is far more complex than the relationship between food production and food consumption or the economic relationship between food supply and food demand. Expanding agriculture's purview and capacity to embrace those contributing factors and determinants of nutrition that are traditionally the province of other disciplines or improving agriculture's interface with other, nonagricultural sectors, suggest themselves as possible ways forward. The limitations of production-focused agricultural programs and interventions in delivering improved nutrition impacts have been recognized by some in the agricultural community for decades. In the early 1980s a number of international development agencies undertook programs that sought to orient agricultural production to nutrition-related objectives, and over time a substantial body of literature developed around the analysis of the programs' results

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Content: Roman identity is one of the most interesting cases of social identity because in the course of time, it could mean so many different things: for instance, Greek-speaking subjects of the Byzantine empire, inhabitants of the city of Rome, autonomous civic or regional groups, Latin speakers under 'barbarian' rule in the West or, increasingly, representatives of the Church of Rome. Eventually, the Christian dimension of Roman identity gained ground. The shifting concepts of Romanness represent a methodological challenge for studies of ethnicity because, depending on its uses, Roman identity may be regarded as 'ethnic' in a broad sense, but under most criteria, it is not. Romanness is indeed a test case how an established and prestigious social identity can acquire many different shades of meaning, which we would class as civic, political, imperial, ethnic, cultural, legal, religious, regional or as status groups. This book offers comprehensive overviews of the meaning of Romanness in most (former) Roman provinces, complemented by a number of comparative and thematic studies. A similarly wide-ranging overview has not been available so far.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Abbreviations -- , List of figures -- , Preface and acknowledgements -- , Aspects of Romanness in the early Middle Ages -- , Introduction: Early medieval Romanness - a multiple identity / , Transformations of Romanness: The northern Gallic case / , Compelling and intense: The Christian transformation of Romanness / , The Late Antique and Byzantine Empire -- , Romans, barbarians and provincials in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus / , A stone in the Capitol: Some aspects of res publica and romanitas in Augustine / , Remarks on linguistic Romanness in Byzantium / , Byzantine Romanness: From geopolitical to ethnic conceptions / , The City of Rome -- , 'Romanness' and Rome in the early Middle Ages / , The post-imperial Romanness of the Romans / , The Roman past in the consciousness of the Roman elites in the ninth and tenth centuries / , Italy and the Adriatic -- , Looking up to Rome: Romanness through the hagiography from the duchy of Spoleto / , Rome and Romanness in Latin southern Italian sources, 8th-10th centuries / , Between Rome and Constantinople: The Romanness of Byzantine southern Italy (9th-11th centuries) / , Dalmatian Romans and their Adriatic friends: Some further remarks / , Gaul -- , 'Roman' identity in Late Antiquity, with special attention to Gaul / , Roman barbarians in the Burgundian province / , Histories of Romanness in the Merovingian kingdoms / , Romanness in Merovingian hagiography: A case study in class and political culture / , Roman law as an identity marker in post-Roman Gaul (5th‒9th centuries) / , From subordination to integration: Romans in Frankish law / , The Iberian Peninsula -- , Goths and Romans in Visigothic Hispania / , 'Made by the ancients': Romanness in al-Andalus / , Northern peripheries: Britain and Noricum -- , Walchen, Vlachs and Welsh: A Germanic ethnonym and its many uses / , Four communities of pot and glass recyclers in early post-Roman Britain / , Romanness at the fringes of the Frankish Empire: The strange case of Bavaria / , From Roman provinces to Islamic lands -- , When not in Rome, still do as the Romans do? Africa from 146 BCE to the 7th century / , Romanness in the Syriac East / , Bibliography -- , Index , Issued also in print. , In English.

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Content: Professor Jha and Professor Gaiha address important issues of food security in their wide-ranging selection of the most influential published contributions in this area of study. Their comprehensive, original research review discusses each article and places it within the context of twelve distinct themes, from which emerges a cogent view of the developing scholarly literature in this area and of the challenges that still remain. This Research Review analyses major landmark contributions in food security and will thus be of interest to all academics, policymakers, international organizations and students working in this area.

Note: The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings. , Recommended readings (Machine generated): Thomas Malthus ([1798] 1998), 'Question Stated - Little Prospect of a Determination of it, from the Enmity of the Opposing Parties - The Principal Argument Against the Perfectibility of Man and of Society has Never Been Fairly Answered - Nature of the Difficulty Arising from Population - Outline of the Principal Argument of the Essay', and 'The Different Ratio in which Population and Food Increase - The Necessary Effects of these Different Ratios of Increase - Oscillation Produced by them in the Condition of the Lower Classes of Society - Reasons why this Oscillation has Not Been so Much Observed as Might be Expected - Three Propositions on which the General Argument of the Essay Depends - The Different States in which Mankind have been Known to Exist Proposed to be Examined with Reference to these Three Propositions', in An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr Godwin, M. Condorcet and Other Writers, Chapters 1 and 2, Electronic Scholarly Publishing [originally published by London, UK: J. Johnson], 1-5, 6-11 -- David Ricardo ([1817] 1988), 'Ricardo on Population', Population and Development Review, 14 (2), June, 339-46 -- Ronald L. Meek (1954), Malthus - Yesterday and Today', Science and Society, 18 (1), Winter, 21-51 -- Robert Dorfman (1989), 'Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 3 (3), Summer, 153-64 -- Amartya Sen (1982), 'The Food Problem: Theory and Policy', Third World Quarterly, 4 (3), July, 447-59 -- Oded Galor and David N. Weil (2000), 'Population, Technology and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and Beyond', American Economic Review, 90 (4), September, 806-28 -- Amartya Sen (1981), 'Ingredients of Famine Analysis: Availability and Entitlements', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 96 (3), August, 433-64 -- Martin Ravallion (1997), 'Famines and Economics', Journal of Economic Literature, XXXV (3), September, 1205-42 -- Basil Ashton, Kenneth Hill, Alan Piazza and Robin Zeitz (1984), 'Famine in China, 1958-61', Population and Development Review, 10 (4), December, 613-45 -- Justin Yifu Lin and Dennis Tao Yang (2000), 'Food Availability, Entitlements and the Chinese Famine of 1959-61', Economic Journal, 110 (460), January, 136-58 -- Cormac Ó'Gráda (2008), 'The Ripple that Drowns? Twentieth Century Famines in China and India as Economic History', Economic History Review, Special Issue: Feeding the Masses: Plenty, Want and the Distribution of Food And Drink in Historical Perspective, 61 (S1), August, 5-37 -- Helmut Kloos and Bert Lindtjørn (1994), 'Malnutrition During Recent Famines in Ethiopia', Northeast African Studies, 1 (1), 121-36 -- Marcus Noland, Sherman Robinson and Tao Wang (2001), 'Famine in North Korea: Causes and Cures', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 49 (4), July, 741-67 -- Cormac Ó Gráda (2007), 'Making Famine History', Journal of Economic Literature, XLV (1), March, 5-38 -- Christopher B. Barrett (2010), 'Measuring Food Insecurity', Science, 327 (5967), February, 825-8 -- C. Peter Timmer (2012), 'Behavioral Dimensions of Food Security', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (31), July, 12315-20 -- Hartwig de Haen, Stephan Klasen and Matin Qaim (2011), 'What Do We Really Know? Metrics for Food Insecurity and Undernutrition', Food Policy, 36 (6), December 760-9 -- T.N. Srinivasan (1981), 'Malnutrition: Some Measurement and Policy Issues', Journal of Development Economics, 8 (1), February, 3-19 -- David E. Sahn and David C. Stifel (2002), 'Robust Comparison of Malnutrition in Developing Countries', American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 84 (3), August, 716-35. , Peter Svedberg (2002), 'Undernutrition Overestimated', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 51 (1), October, 5-36 -- Lisa C. Smith and Lawrence Haddad (2002), 'How Potent is Economic Growth in Reducing Undernutrition? What are the Pathways of Impact? New Cross-Country Evidence', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 51 (1), October, 55-76 -- Partha Dasgupta (1997), 'Nutritional Status, the Capacity for Work, and Poverty Traps', Journal of Econometrics, 77 (1), March, 5-3 -- Raghbendra Jha, Ragjha Gaiha and Anurag Sharma (2009), 'Calorie and Micronutrient Deprivation and Poverty Nutrition Traps in Rural India', World Development, 37 (5), May, 982-91 -- T.N. Srinivasan (1994), 'Destitution: A Discourse', Journal of Economic Literature, XXXII (4), December, 1842-55 -- Andrew D. Foster (1995), 'Nutrition and Health Investment', American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 85 (2), May, 148-52 -- Gary Becker (1981), 'Altruism in the Family', in A Treatise on the Family, Chapter 8, Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University Press, 277-306, references -- Harold Alderman, Pierre-André Chiappori, Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott and Ravi Kanbur (1995), 'Unitary versus Collective Models of the Household: Is It Time to Shift the Burden of Proof?', World Bank Research Observer, 10 (1), February, 1-19 -- Angus Deaton (1987), The Allocation of Goods within the Household: Adults, Children and Gender and Appendix, LSMS Working Paper: LSM 39, Washington, DC, USA: The World Bank, August, i-v, 1-28, A-1-A-5 -- Mark M. Pitt, Mark R. Rosenzweig and Md. Nazmul Hassan (1990), 'Productivity, Health, and Inequality in the Intrahousehold Distribution of Food in Low-Income Countries', American Economic Review, 80 (5), December, 1139-56 -- Agnes R. Quisumbing and Lisa C. Smith (2007), 'Intrahousehold Allocation, Gender Relations, and Food Security in Developing Countries', in Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Fuzhi Cheng (eds), Food Policy for Developing Countries: The Role of Government in the Global Food System, Case Study 4-5, Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell University, 1-13 -- Wei Luo, Fengying Zhai, Shuigao Jon and Keyou Ge (2001), 'Intrahousehold Food Distribution: A Case Study of Eight Provinces in China', Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 10 (Supplement 1), June, S19-S28 -- Gustavo J. Bobonis (2009), 'Is the Allocation of Resources within the Household Efficient? New Evidence from a Randomized Experiment', Journal of Political Economy, 117 (3), June, 453-503 -- Benjamin Senauer, Marito Garcia and Elizabeth Jacinto (1988), 'Determinants of the Intrahousehold Allocation of Food in the Rural Philippines', American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 70 (1), February, 170-80 -- Sonia Bhalotra and Cliff Attfield (1998), 'Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Rural Pakistan: A Semiparametric Analysis', Journal of Applied Econometrics, Special Issue: Application of Semiparametric Methods for Micro-Data, 13 (5), September-October, 463-80 -- Ellen Messer (1984), 'Anthropological Perspectives on Diet', Annual Review of Anthropology, 13, 205-49 -- Mark M. Pitt (1983), 'Food Preferences and Nutrition in Rural Bangaladesh', Review of Economics and Statistics, 65 (1), February, 105-14 -- Jere R. Behrman, Anil B. Deolalikar and Barbara L. Wolfe (1988),'Nutrients: Impacts and Determinants', World Bank Economic Review, 2 (3), September, 299-320 -- Jere R. Behrman and Anil Deolalikar (1989), 'Is Variety the Spice of Life? Implications for Calorie Intake', Review of Economics and Statistics, 71 (4), November, 666-72. , C. Peter Timmer (1981), 'Is There "Curvature" in the Slutsky Matrix?', Review of Economics and Statistics, 63 (3), August, 395-402 -- Barry M. Popkin, Linda S. Adair and Shu Wen Ng (2012), 'Global Nutrition Transition and the Pandemic of Obesity in Developing Countries', Nutrition Reviews, 70 (1), January, 3-21 -- Barry M. Popkin (2006), 'Global Nutrition Dynamics: The World is Shifting Rapidly toward a Diet Linked with Noncommunicable Diseases', American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 84 (2), August, 289-98 -- Xiaoyong Zhang, Hans Dagevos, Yuna He, Ivo van der Lans and Fengying Zhai (2008), 'Consumption and Corpulence in China: A Consumer Segmentation Study based on the Food Perspective', Food Policy, 33 (1), February, 37-47 -- Eileen T. Kennedy (2005), 'The Global Face of Nutrition: What Can Governments and Industry Do?', Journal of Nutrition, 135 (4), April, 913-15 -- Alan D. Lopez, Christopher J L Murray, Emmanuela Gakidou et al (2014), 'Global, Regional, and National Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adults during 1980-2013: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013', The Lancet, 384, August, 766-81 -- Lawrence Haddad, Harold Alderman, Simon Appleton, Lina Song and Yisehac Yohannes (2003), 'Reducing Child Malnutrition: How Far Does Income Growth Take Us?', World Bank Economic Review, 17 (1), June, 107-31 -- Farzana Afridi (2010), 'Child Welfare Programs and Child Nutrition: Evidence from a Mandated School Meal Program in India', Journal of Development Economics, 92 (2), July, 152-65 -- C. Peter Timmer (2010), 'Reflections on Food Crises Past', Food Policy, 35 (1), February, 1-11 -- Eugenio Bobenrieth, Brian Wright and Di Zeng (2013), 'Stocks-to-use Ratios and Prices as Indicators of Vulnerability to Spikes in Global Cereal Markets', Agricultural Economics, 44 (S1 Supplement), November, 43-52 -- Kym Anderson, Maros Ivanic and William J. Martin (2013), 'Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation, and Poverty', in Jean-Paul Chavas, David Humels and Brian D. Wright (eds), The Economics of Food Price Volatility, Chapter 8, Chicago, IL, USA and London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 311-44 -- Maros Ivanic and Will Martin (2008), 'Implications of Higher Global Food Prices for Poverty in Low-Income Countries', World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4594, Washington, DC, USA: World Bank, i, 1-54 -- Emmanuel Skoufias, Sailesh Tiwari and Hassan Zaman (2012), 'Crises, Food Prices, and the Income Elasticity of Micronutrients: Estimates from Indonesia', World Bank Economic Review, 26 (3), 415-42 -- David Dawe (2008), 'Have Recent Increases in International Cereal Prices been Transmitted to Domestic Economies? The Experience in Seven Large Asian Countries', ESA Working Paper No. 08-03, Agricultural Development Economics Division: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, August, 2-11 -- Kelvin Balcombe, Alastair Bailey and Jonathan Brooks (2007), 'Threshold Effects in Price Transmission: The Case of Brazilian Wheat, Maize, and Soya Prices', American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89 (2), May, 308-23 -- Benjamin Senauer (2008), 'Food Market Effects of a Global Resource Shift Toward Bioenergy', American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 90 (5), December, 1226-32 -- C. Peter Timmer (2009), 'Do Supermarkets Change the Food Policy Agenda?', World Development, 37 (11), November, 1812-9. , John Toye (2009), 'Development with Dearer Food: Can the Invisible Hand Guide Us?', Journal of International Development, Special Issue: Development Studies Association Conference 2008: Development's Invisible Hands, 21 (6), August, 757-64 -- J.M. Keynes (1938), 'The Policy of Government Storage of Foodstuffs and Raw Materials', Economic Journal, 48 (191), September, 449-60 -- D.M.G. Newbery and J.E. Stiglitz (1979), 'The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilisation Rules: Welfare Impacts and Supply Responses', Economic Journal, 89 (356), December, 799-817 -- Odin Knudsen and John Nash (1990), 'Domestic Price Stabilization Schemes in Developing Countries', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 38 (3), April, 539-58 -- Brian D. Wright (2012), 'International Grain Reserves and Other Instruments to Address Volatility in Grain Markets', World Bank Research Observer, 27 (2), August, 222-60 -- A.C. Pigou (1948), 'The Food Subsidies', Economic Journal, 58 (230), June, 202-9 -- Timothy Besley and Ravi Kanbur (1988), 'Food Subsidies and Poverty Alleviation', Economic Journal, 98 (392), September, 701-19 -- Harold Alderman and Kathy Lindert (1998), 'The Potential and Limitations of Self-Targeted Food Subsidies', World Bank Research Observer, 13 (2), August, 213-29 -- Robert T. Jensen and Nolan H. Miller (2011), 'Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?', Review of Economics and Statistics, 93 (4), November, 1205-23 -- David E. Sahn and Harold Alderman (1996), 'The Effect of Food Subsidies on Labor Supply in Sri Lanka', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 45 (1), October, 125-45 -- Arnab K. Basu and Matin Qaim (2007), 'On the Adoption of Genetically Modified Seeds in Developing Countries and the Optimal Types of Government Intervention', American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89 (3), August, 784-804 -- Ronald J. Herring (2005), 'Miracle Seeds, Suicide Seeds, and the Poor: GMOs, NGOs, Farmers, and the State', in Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein (eds), Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power and Politics, Chapter 8, Lanham, MD, USA: Rowman and Littlefield, 203-32 -- Ronald J. Herring (2007), 'The Genomics Revolution and Development Studies: Science, Poverty and Politics', Journal of Development Studies, Special Issue: Transgenics and the Poor: Biotechnology in Development Studies, 43 (1), Special Issue, January 1-30 -- C. Peter Timmer (2003), 'Biotechnology and Food Systems in Developing Countries', Journal of Nutrition, 133 (11), November, 3319-22. , John W. Mellor (1980), 'Food Aid and Nutrition', American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 62 (5), December, 979-83 -- Foresight Project (2011), 'Challenge C: Ending Hunger', in The Future of Food and Farming. Final Project Report, Chapter 6, London, UK: Government Office for Science, 115-28.

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Content: This volume documents the practice of bringing enslaved people to early modern Europe not only as a side effect of overseas colonial regimes but as a pan-European experience that even developed its own dynamics on the continent. Drawing on examples from France, Scotland, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the Holy Roman Empire, the contributors show how slavery affected both the enslaved and the enslavers' societies, changing European notions of freedom, dependence, and subjugation. At the same time, Afro-European families and cultural productions challenge the view of the Black diaspora as Europe's "other." The volume thus reveals not only the roots of present-day racism extending far back into the past, but also a common heritage yet to be discovered.

Note: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- 1 The European Experience in Slavery 1650-1850: Parallels and Entanglements -- 2 Barriers to Accessing France's Sol Libre in Early Modern France -- 3 Escaping Enslavement in Eighteenth- Century Scotland -- 4 Variations of African Life in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands: Between a Boy Servant at the Court of Orange-Nassau and a Lord of the Manor in the Province of Groningen -- 5 Race, Slavery, and the Market: African Lives in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen -- 6 Free Through Membership in the Imperial Trumpeters' Guild? On the Legal and Social Position of Black Court Trumpeters in the Holy Roman Empire -- 7 Iconography and the Law: Slaves at the Dresden Court -- 8 On Intimate Terms - An Afterword. , Issued also in print.

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Content: The NE Pacific Ocean is considered the birthplace of many fundamental ideas for modern plate tectonics theory. In this book the orogenic belts of this region are discussed in a single, internally consistent tectonic concept. Geological information is considered the most reliable. Geophysical models are tested for compatibility with observable geological data. The new concept avoids force-fitting interpretations to preconceived assumptions regarding accreted far-traveled terranes in the Cordillera and continental-oceanic plate interactions in the entire region.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Outstanding issues in studies of continental margins -- Evaluation of the data base -- Pre-cenozoic geologic framework of western Cordillera -- Tertiary stratigraphic framework of coastal provinces in Washington and British Columbia -- Significance of the trans-cordilleran olympic-wallowa zone in geologic evolution of the Washington and British Columbia coastal regions -- Continental marging off Southeastern Alaska, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and Northern Vancouver Island -- Crustal blocks under Vancouver Island and the exterior shelf -- Structure of continental slope off Vancouver Island -- Interlocking of continental and oceanic crustal blocks along the continental margin and non-rigid behavior of Northern Juan de Fuca Plate -- Concluding remarks. , English

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Series Statement: City Development Strategy

Content: Durban is located within a global biodiversity hotspot, and still contains a wealth of biodiversity. Some of this is protected in nature reserves, but much of it is in private hands or in communal lands on the city's periphery. City managers are divided over the level of attention that should be given to preserving these remaining natural areas. While it is argued that they make a significant contribution to biodiversity conservation in the province, provide valuable ecosystem services and will contribute to the city's resilience in the face of climate change, the counter argument is that much of this area should make way for development to alleviate the escalating problem of unemployment. The study of ecosystem services and their value to society has made significant advances since an estimate was made of Durban's ecosystem services in the 1990s using early values from the international literature. The aim of this study was to provide estimates of the value of ecosystem services provided by natural open space areas within the eThekwini Municipal Area (EMA), and to map the geographic variation in these values as far as possible so as to be able to compare both areas and types of value, using available and locally-relevant data. This study was carried out as a desktop study based on available data. Modelling assumptions were based on data from within the study area, drawing on the regional, national or international literature only where necessary. The study focused on the direct values associated with the provision of natural resources, indirect use values associated with regulating services generated by ecosystem functioning, and the amenity values generated by ecosystem attributes

Language: English

DOI: 10.1596/26765

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Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive

Content: Sindh has the potential to become a high middle-income province in Pakistan, but it lags far behind in terms of economic, social and development indicators. Sindh is also the most industrialized province, resource-rich and endowed with the country's largest natural gas and coal reserves. In sum, it has the potential to become a high-growth and high-income region. Nonetheless, Sindh has yet to translate this potential into commensurate economic and social development. The province faces major developmental challenges. Sindh's weak social indicators are partly the result of the inadequate reach and low quality of public service delivery. This Public Expenditure Review focuses on provincial finances and their utilization with the objective of identifying possible reforms to expand the resource envelope and ensure better value for money by improving the management and efficiency of public spending. It includes two important components: (i) a detailed analysis of the major revenue challenges and the various expenditures, including development spending and; (ii) and in-depth assessment of how some of the key government priorities are undertaken, such as education, health, and social protection. The hope is that by better understanding the constraints, reforms can be designed and implemented to maximize Sindh's potential and promote a more equitable and productive path

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DOI: 10.1596/29264

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