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This annual series provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and economics. Contents include: Boom Towns and Ghost Countries: Geography, Agglomeration, and Population Mobility, Global Wage Differences and International Worker Flows, What's Wrong with Plan B? International Migration as the Alternative to Development, Global Labor Markets: Issues and Implications.

Ride off into the sunset with six sensual desert collections...

The book reviews the theory and concepts of happiness, explaining how these concepts underpin a line of research that is both an attempt to understand the determinants of happiness and a tool for understanding the effects of a host of phenomena on human well being.

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The quality of life concept of quality of life is a broad one. It incorporates basic needs but also extends beyond them to include capabilities, the livability of the environment, and life appreciation and happiness. Latin Americas diversity in culture and levels of development provide a laboratory for studying how quality of life varies with a number of objective and subjective measures. These measures range from income levels to job insecuri...

Economists are increasingly using happiness surveys to study a host of questions, ranging from the happiness effects of health and marriage to the unhappiness effects of unemployment, divorce, and even commuting time.

This book makes concrete recommendations on crafting a new blueprint for distributing and delivering aid to make the Millenium Challenge Account an effective tool, not only in its own right, but also in transforming U.S. foreign aid and strengthening international aid cooperation more generally.

A fascinating story of the first Anglican Indian bishop to be consecrated, who played a great part in the extension of Christianity in India and in the cause of Christian unity both there and throughout the world. Contents Include: Foreword by the Archbishop of York - Hail - The Early Years - The Indian Evangelist - The Bishop of Dornakal - The Mass Movement - Building up the Church - Twenty-Five Years a Bishop - The Apostle of India - The Pro...

Economist Carol Graham explores what we know about the determinants of happiness and clearly presents both the promise and the potential pitfalls of injecting the "economics of happiness" into public policymaking. While the book spotlights the innovative contributions of happiness research to the dismal science, it also raises a cautionary note about the issues that still need to be addressed before policymakers can make best use of them.

Subjective well being, or happiness, has been analyzed in detail by psychologists for decades. Yet only recently has it become the subject of economic analysis.

This book studies the effects of incorporating market incentives into the public goods arena. Author Carol Graham examines reforms in education, health, social security, and state-owned enterprises across a range of country and income contexts, with case studies from Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Graham's studies show that market incentives can have positive effects on the performance of public institutions.

In "Happiness and Hardship, " Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing the relationship between subjective well being and the political sustainability of market-oriented economic growth in 17 Latin American countries and Russia.

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McNeeley the Mouse lives under the stairs in the Turley's house. All is well, except that the Turleys like to eat a lot and don't like to exercise. Each time they go up or down the stairs, the boards creak more than the last time, and McNeeley is afraid that the roof of his own little house will cave in one day. So, McNeeley and his cousins must devise a plan to save his house, and maybe even save the Turleys at the same time!

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Illustrated by cartoons, this book is intended to help parents and teachers of depressed children and teenagers. Young people themselves will also find it useful, as should school nurses, social workers, health visitors, family doctors and anyone who works with children. The aim is to help those involved to recognise the signs of depression in children and to understand the possible causes.

Today, more and more students are choosing to study overseas. Most relish this opportunity to become student ambassadors for their country and community, and eagerly anticipate engaging with the people at their chosen destination. In many cases, however, they quickly encounter obstacles.In Coping with Anti-Americanism, Carol Madison Graham shows students how to break out of their comfort zone, thrive in another society, and handle the anti-Ame...