This report's focus is making global value chains (GVCs) more inclusive. To achieve inclusiveness is by overcoming participation constraints for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and facilitation access for Low Income Developing Countries (LIDCs). The underlying assumption is …
Introduction and methodology; Crop studies; Country studies; Synthesis.
This book reports on the productivity impacts of varietal improvement research conducted at a number of international centres affiliated with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Such centres have been at the forefront of a 40-year effort to breed new v…
In his new book, Bill Killingsworth documents the decline of economicand intellectual wealth caused by the loss of U.S. Manufacturing. His thought provoking analysis of this empirical dataleads us back to the answers to save ourselves and generationsto come.-Rick Jarman, Preside…
This book provides a practical approach to garden centre management that is backed up by management theory. The text covers consumer behaviour, staff management, security management, stock management, marketing and productivity. The book has 10 chapters and a subject index.
Carles Boix shows that an increasingly interdependent world economy and recent technological shocks have exacerbated the dilemmas faced by governments in choosing amongst various policy objectives, like job creation and reducing income inequality.
Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering
This 288-page-book consists of eight chapters and is a practical manual for goat production systems covering: breeding and selection (chapters 1-3), feeding based on available crops and resources (chapter 4), and targeted preventative health care for increased productivity and i…
As an extension of Volumes I and II of this series, this book contains a very detailed elaboration of the Tesla story, in a way that also serves to examine the interaction of technology and economic forces that determine the evolution of the structural profitability of any indus…
