With the widespread interest in the role that international trade can play in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, increasing attention is being given to the poverty impacts of trade liberalisation. The high level of public interest has stimulated renewed research activity aimed at...

Significant advances have been made in measuring the stringency of environmental policies, and understanding the relationship between environmental action and economic dynamics, particularly in high-income countries. Despite this, unequivocal empirical evidence on the impact of environmental...

‘Greening' economic growth discourses are increasingly replacing the catchword of ‘sustainable development' within national and international policy circles. The core of the argument is that the growth of modern economies may be sustained or even augmented, while policy intervention...

1. Introduction : a development issue -- 2. A story of communism and rural societies -- 3. Post-communist economic dynamics of agricultural systems -- 4. Transition and transformations in the agriculture-nature nexus -- 5. Common Agricultural Policy reforms and European Union enlargement -- 6....