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• Introduction / Monika Meireles, Bruno De Conti and Diego Guevara
• I. Rethinking Development and Financial Dependency: Theoretical Reflections
• 1. Dependency, Finance and Development: Echoes of the Past That Resonate in the Present / Manuel Felipe Martínez Mantilla and José Daniel Saade Figueroa
• 2. International Division of Finance: Functionality and Dependency of the System's Periphery / Édivo de Almeida Oliveira and Bruno De Conti
• 3. Latin America: Between Regressive Structural Change and the Pandemic / Diego Guevara and Emilia Ormaechea
• II. Financialization and Financial Reconfiguration in the Pandemic-- 4. Dependent Financialization of Latin America: A View from the COVID-19 Crisis / Armando Negrete
• 5. Latin American Development Banks in the Pandemic Crisis / Marcos V. Chiliatto and Daniela M. Prates
• 6. They Win in Mexico: Pension Funds and Financial Benefits during the Pandemic / Lizeth Alanis and Monika Meireles
• III. Economic Policy Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
• 7. Potential of Coordination Between Monetary and Fiscal Policy: The Experience of Latin America during COVID-19 / Leonardo Rojas Rodríguez and Santiago Castaño Salas
• 8. Countercyclical Fiscal Policy and Fiscal Impulses: Post-Pandemic Challenges
• The Cases of Brazil and Mexico / Teresa López González and Eufemia Basilio Morales
• 9. Effects of International Liquidity Cycles on Argentina during the Pandemic / Ezequiel Greco Laplane.

• The remaking of Mexico : the state, economic elite and US capital 1982-1992
• From NAFTA to the PAN's implosion : Mexico remade for US TNCS 1992-2012
• Stagnation & income dispersion sink new PRI and fracture US Labor : 2012-2018
• López Obrador in power, 2018-2022 : a transformational or conformational moment?
• Export-led accumulation : paradoxes of the leading auto sector
• Petroleum : a strategic resource for Houston's TNCs or Mexico?
• Mining and agriculture : supporting pillars of the transnational structure
• Some final reflections on dependence and asymmetry.

"Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of their development. The book pays particular attention to the economics of hunting and gathering societies and their diversity. New ideas are presented about theories of the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, including Childe's theory of this development. The Agricultural Revolution was a major contributor to economic development because in most cases, it generated an economic surplus. However, as shown, income inequality was a necessary condition for the use of this surplus to promote economic development and to avoid the Malthusian population trap. This inequality was evident in the successful operation of the palatial economies of the Minoan and Mycenaean states. Nevertheless, some post-agricultural economies proved to be unsustainable, and they 'mysteriously' disappeared. This happened in the case of the Silesian Únětice culture and population. Economic and ecological reasons for this are suggested. The nature of economic development altered with increased trade, the use of barter, and subsequently the supply of money to facilitate this trade. These developments are examined in the context of the palatial economies of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Elsewhere, multinational business made a substantial contribution to the economic growth of Phoenicia, where international trade was not determined by its natural resource endowments. Thus, Phoenician economic exchange and development provides a different set of insights. The book makes an important contribution to the understanding of the evolution of human societies and will therefore be of interdisciplinary interest including economists (especially economic historians), anthropologists and sociologists, some archaeologists, and historians"-- Provided by publisher.

"Abolishing Poverty argues for a project of relationality that refuses the whiteness of liberal poverty studies and instead centers critiques of the poverty relation and political futures disavowed under liberal governance. In disrupting poverty thinking, the author collective opens space for diverse frameworks for understanding impoverishment and articulating antiracist knowledges and political visions. The book explores new infrastructures of possibilities and political solidarities rooted in accountable relations to each other and from flights to the future that animate diverse communities. This book is boundary and genre crossing, with broad appeal to scholars of such disciplines as human geography, ethnic studies, decolonial theory, and feminist studies. As a volume, the work is unique in its primary field of human geography in the form of its making, its collective authorship, and its investigation of politics that abolish poverty thinking and engage in activism against the poverty relation produced through settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation"-- Provided by publisher.

• Forecasting Methods as a Tool for Strategic Planning of Sustainable Development of an Agrarian Enterprise
• Development of a Model for System Management of the Regional Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Factors
• Achieving Sustainable Growth of the Grain Product Subcomplex Production on the Basis of the Formation and Development of the Integrated Structures
• Designing a Model of Cryptosecurity of Information in the System of Countering the Spread of COVID-19
• Ensuring Economic Security and Sustainable Development of the Southern Region of Russia
• The Increase of Labour Efficiency and Innovative Regionalization in Russia
• The Development of Social and Industrial Infrastructure of the Agro-Industrial Complex as a Significant Indicator of the Sustainable Development of the Industry
• Informational and Analytical Support for the Sustainable Development of Agribusiness Enterprises
• Human capital development in rural areas from the standpoint of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Economic development, social sustainability, and environmental protection play a major role in terms of efforts for innovation, digitalization, business, and global development. Today, nations all over the world attempt to accomplish the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to ensure sustainable patterns. Combining empirical and theoretical information, this book demonstrates advanced initiatives and concrete examples from universities, research institutes, and companies, regarding cross-cutting issues in sustainable development of a wide range of fields. The major focus in the book is the promotion of quality of life, by means of a more sustainable food production, and improved food security. Additionally, the importance of digital technologies, business policy, social aspects, and corporate governance in ensuring sustainable regional development is studied. This book is a truly interdisciplinary publication, useful to scholars, social movements, practitioners, and members of governmental agencies and private companies.

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Aid Effectiveness, International Policy Transfer and Development and Post-Development Theory
• Chapter 3: The Aid Effectiveness Architecture and Kenya's Agriculture Sector
• Chapter 4: Aid Effectiveness and Kenya's Agricultural Policy and Strategy making processes
• Chapter 5: Aid Effectiveness and Perspectives and Practices of Donors
• Chapter 6: Aid and Agriculture Sector in Kenya: a Focus on Major Stakeholders
• Chapter 7: Overall Conclusions

"With the rise of new technologies and disruptive innovations reshaping the global economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been characterized as a fusion between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. From the increasing adoption of mobile devices to the entrepreneurial use of 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and robotics, trends across Africa speak to the continent's potential for growth and sustainable development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In this innovative and timely study, Landry Signé examines the meaning, drivers, and implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for Africa. Drawing upon comparative, continent-wide analysis, Signé powerfully challenges our understandings of Africa's transformation, and sheds light on the potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to change and shape the Global South. By defining and investigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Signé develops a valuable framework for further study and suggests strategies that Africans and their global partners can use to capitalize upon this rapidly evolving technological landscape"-- Provided by publisher.

"With the rise of new technologies and disruptive innovations reshaping the global economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been characterized as a fusion between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. From the increasing adoption of mobile devices to the entrepreneurial use of 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and robotics, trends across Africa speak to the continent's potential for growth and sustainable development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In this innovative and timely study, Landry Signé examines the meaning, drivers, and implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for Africa. Drawing upon comparative, continent-wide analysis, Signé powerfully challenges our understandings of Africa's transformation, and sheds light on the potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to change and shape the Global South. By defining and investigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Signé develops a valuable framework for further study and suggests strategies that Africans and their global partners can use to capitalize upon this rapidly evolving technological landscape"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The Great Climate Transformation
• Chapter 3: Shift in Global Climate Discourse
• Chapter 4: The Evolving Geopolitics of Climate Change
• Chapter 5: Dynamic Differentiation
• Chapter 6: The Rise of Non-state Actors
• Chapter 7: Emergent Climate-related Policy Issues
• Chapter 8: Governing Complexity
• Chapter 9: Conclusion

This book examines how Africa can secure a just transition to low-carbon, climate-resilient economies. Kennedy Mbeva is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Reuben Makomere is a Research Associate at the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) Joanes Atela is the Convenor of the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) Victoria Chengo is a Research Fellow at the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) Charles Tonui is the Policy Convenor at the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN)

• Introduction
• Is it Feasible to Reduce Inequality? Income Tax and Market Regulations
• Is it Feasible to Reduce Inequality? Wealth Taxes and Tax Havens
• Should We Aim for High Taxes and Low Inequality? Weighing Costs and Benefits
• Do Rich People Deserve Their Income?
• Do the Skilled and Hard Working Deserve More Than Others?
• Does Voluntary Exchange of Private Property Justify Inequality?
• How Much Inequality is Acceptable? The Case for Maximum Limits on Income and Wealth
• Conclusion

"Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and the richest person in the world, currently possesses $270 billion dollars. An average American worker would have to work for seven-and-a-half million years to earn this much. To put the matter the other way round, the total amount of money that a typical American will earn in their whole life - after, say, forty years of work - is the same as would be earned by Musk in just fourteen minutes. During the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, 250,000 Americans died and 20 million lost their jobs in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, yet the country's 614 billionaires saw their wealth actually increase by a third, from $2.95 trillion to almost $4 trillion (Manjoo, 2020). Across the world, the richest eight individuals possess the same amount of wealth as half the entire planet - three and a half billion people (Oxfam, 2017). Never across the entire expanse of human history has such a level of inequality been seen before"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Is it Feasible to Reduce Inequality? Income Tax and Market Regulations
• Is it Feasible to Reduce Inequality? Wealth Taxes and Tax Havens
• Should We Aim for High Taxes and Low Inequality? Weighing Costs and Benefits
• Do Rich People Deserve Their Income?
• Do the Skilled and Hard Working Deserve More Than Others?
• Does Voluntary Exchange of Private Property Justify Inequality?
• How Much Inequality is Acceptable? The Case for Maximum Limits on Income and Wealth
• Conclusion

"Cut through the hype and unlock the game-changing potential of conversational AI. In Age of Invisible Machines, celebrated tech leader Robb Wilson delivers an eye-opening and startlingly insightful blueprint for leveraging conversational AI in order to make your organization self-driving--with a growing ecosystem of interconnected automations accelerating all aspects of your business. Conversational AI is changing the nature of every job at every company (starting yesterday) and this book is relevant for anyone who will be affected by the acceleration of these technologies. You'll learn how to develop a strategy for hyperautomation by identifying the outdated processes and systems holding your organization back. You'll discover ways of internalizing and orchestrating new technologies that are force-multipliers for rapid growth. A must-read for every business leader, Wilson's book debunks common myths about conversational AI while laying bare the inevitable complexity of restructuring your business to unlock the massive opportunities this new era affords"-- Provided by publisher.

"What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these commodities transformed the period's literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness. Tracing exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of authors and genres, the book considers how, why, and whither writers used scenes of eating, drinking, and smoking to diagnose and interrogate their own solipsistic constructions of the Orient. As national and cultural boundaries became increasingly porous, such self-reflexive inquiries into the nature and role of otherness provided an unexpected avenue for British imperial subjectivity to emerge and coalesce"-- Provided by publisher

• Chapte
• r1. Flood Susceptibility Mapping Using a Frequency Ratio Model: A Case Study of Chai Nat Province, Thailand.- Chapte
• r2. Influence of Hydrosphere Material Knowledge on the Attitude of High School Students in Conducting Water Conservation in Brebes Regency, Indonesia.- Chapte
• r3. Optimizing multi-reservoir systems with the aid of genetic algorithm: Mahanadi reservoir project complex, Chhattisgarh.- Chapte
• r4. Monitoring of Morphological Change in Lam Phachi River Using Geo-Informatics System.- Chapte
• r5. Developing Scenario of Plastic Waste Leakage in Jakarta Hydrology Environment using Seasonal Data Condition and Socio-Economic Aspects.- Chapte
• r6. Measurement of PM10, PM2.5, NO2, and SO2 Using Sensors.- Chapte
• r7. Encoding Social Media Wording Indexes to Analyse PM2.5 Problem Perception.- Chapte
• r8. Noise mapping of different zones in an urban area during Deepawali festival.- Chapte
• r9. Digital Twins in farming with the implementation of agricultural technologies.- Chapte
• r10. A cross-comparison between Rice Crop Monitoring System: GISTDA and International Asian Harvest mOnitoring system for Rice (INAHOR): JAXA.- Chapte
• r11. Evaluation MODIS and Sentinel-2 data for detecting crop residue burned area.- Chapte
• r12. Machine Learning Approach with Environmental Pollution and Geospatial Information for Mapping Poverty in Thailand.- Chapte
• r13. Integration of Machine Learning Algorithms and Time-series Satellite images on Land Use/Land Cover Mapping with Google Earth Engine.- Chapte
• r14. Sugarcane and Cassava Classification using Machine Learning Approach based on Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Data Analysis.- Chapte
• r15. Google Earth Engine algorithm for Evaluating the Performance of Landsat OLI-8 and Sentinel-2 in Mangrove Monitoring.- Chapte
• r16. Estimation of Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Stock using Remote Sensing Data for Sakaerat Environmental Research Station, Thailand.- Chapte
• r17. Determination of Land Suitability for Oil Palm with Multi-Dimension Decision Support using Analytic Network Process (ANP) in Southern Thailand.- Chapte
• r18. Land use change and ecosystem service variations in Huai Luang River basin, Udon Thani province, Thailand.- Chapte
• r19. The Ability to Access Attractions for the Elderly from Public Transport in Bangkok Metropolis.
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This volume presents the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Geography and Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development (ICGGS), held in Phuket, Thailand, April 7-8, 2022. The collection focuses on the importance of spatial thinking and planning by applying geography concepts and geospatial technology innovations in solving global problems such as environmental degradation, urban pollution, and climate change. The proceedings consist of case studies on wide-ranging spatial issues in developing countries, addressing challenges in mainstreaming sustainable development paradigms into their economies to improve natural resource and environmental management. One of the main goals of the volume is to share and exchange different points of view regarding global, regional, and local spatial issues and how to use geography and geoinformatics for building resilience in multiple sectors, e.g., water, ecosystems, agriculture, and health. It offers the opportunity to learn about how geospatial concepts and technologies can contribute to environmental sustainability, while advancing education and research related to geography and geoinformatics. It will be a useful resource for students and researchers to initiate research ideas related to geospatial topics in regional and local scales.
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"This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia. Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the understanding of the historical processes of cultural, social, political, and economic transformation throughout the long twentieth century. Presenting a broad range of topics - from the changing sounds of the Kyoto kimono making industry to radio in late colonial India - the book explores how the study of Asian sound cultures offers greater insight into historical accounts of local and global transformation. Challenging us to rethink and reassemble important categories in sound studies, this book will be a vital resource for students and scholars of sound studies, Asian studies, history, postcolonial studies, and media studies"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction : A Refugee Boom Town
• Building the Working Man's Dream
• Mineral Meets Migrant Metallurgies
• Securing the Offshore Industry
• Resource Frictions
• Ekamawir Omo : Connecting Communities
• Bitter Money

"This book focuses on the production and impacts of the phosphate and asylum industries in the Republic of Nauru."-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• The rise of China's authoritarian economic statecraft
• The global rush for masks
• Dual-function strategy and China's core interests
• Spies and sister cities
• Zooming in
• The WHO and the Party man
• China adopts Russia's disinformation playbook
• "Chewing gum stuck to the bottom of China's shoe"
• Hong Kong outlaws global activism
• China vaccinates the world
• Building a democratic economic statecraft.

"Beijing Rules is a superb expose which reveals how China learned to master capitalism which it now wields in its own authoritarian form to achieve global dominance. As Bethany Allen, the China reporter for Axios, reveals, the long-standing belief that free-trade capitalism is a democratizing force--the assumption underlying much of American and Western policy since World War II--is demonstrably false. Capitalism is actually a two-way street: if democratic values can travel in one direction, authoritarianism can travel in the other. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has successfully engineered what Cold War champions believed to be impossible: an unabashedly Communist Party leading a prosperous capitalist state. Written by the first American journalist to expose covert Chinese influence operations in the United States, Beijing Rules includes headline-making stories of western institutions bowing to Beijing's coercion--a glimpse of what American's future might look like should liberal democracy come firmly under the thumb of authoritarian capitalism. Grounded in deep investigative reporting, it sounds the alarm about what we must do to prevent the loss of freedoms we now take for granted"-- Provided by publisher.