This collection explores the impact of economic reforms in developing and transitional economies across the world. It examines such issues as: pressures for global integration; labour costs and their determinants - crucial factors in the success of economic strategies in attracting investment; and how wage levels, poverty and the important role of workers as part of a civil society are linked with the consequences of global integration. This text is useful reading for all those involved in labour and development economics as well as being of interest to policy makers.

All geologists need a broad understanding of science to understand the processes they are studying and the analytical techniques they use. In particular, geology students need to grasp the basic physics that lies behind these processes, which this book provides in plain language and simple mathematics. It also gives the reader enough background physics to allow them to make up their own minds about the validity of what they read in the scientific literature or hear. There is an emphasis on water, an essential component of geology This up-dated and revised edition of Richard Chapman's Physics...