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The aim of this book is to establish a sociological
understanding of dyslexia within adulthood. The
research explores the effects dyslexia has on the
lives of individuals within an educational and
employment context. A feature of the study is that
it draws from literature within the social model of
disability rather than employing the psycho-
educational approach that dominates contemporary
research. The study has placed dyslexia within the
field of disability studies in an attempt to
understand how this syndrome can be interpreted
through the concept of disabling barriers. In...

This report examines China's 2011-13 attempt to maintain a high level of price support for its cotton producers, analyzing the policy's motivation, its consequences to date, and the impacts of various adjustment alternatives China might pursue. With China's wages rising rapidly in recent years, cotton production costs there have been rising faster than in the rest of the world. Rising costs both helped motivate China's policymakers to strengthen their price support for cotton production in 2011 and ensured that the policy ultimately proved unsustainable. After several years of sharply lower...