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Peru's self-proclaimed "revolution"--surprisingly extensive reforms initiated by the military government--has aroused great interest all over Latin America and the Third World. This book is the first systematic and comprehensive attempt to appraise Peru's current experiment in both national and regional perspective. It compares recent innovative ap

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Voxi Heinrich Amavilah examines the factors and forces that explain the unexpectedly good performance of Sub-Saharan African countries just before the 2008 global recession, including newer technologies, globalization, governance, and conventional determinants of economic performance.

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In the 1980s some developing countries adopted orthodox market-oriented policies in response to international economic crises, others experimented with alternative programs, and still others failed to develop coherent adjustment strategies of any sort. This title examines the role of the state in the adjustment process.

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It is an inspiring, interdisciplinary study in the field of social sciences that analyses the most important challenges facing the world economy and modern civilization. Grzegorz W. Kolodko explains in a comprehensible way the contradictions of ideas and interests and practical ways of solving them and its implications for our future.

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How can developing countries grow their economies Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin--the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank--focuses on what developing nations can do to help themselves. Lin examines how the co

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It analyses the Chilean experience with a privatised pension system and examines its impact on pension levels for the ageing population, differences in benefits across different groups, impact on local capital markets

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Many scholars of sub-Saharan Africa agree that inward-oriented development policies have hampered economic development in the region.

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This volume presents a perspective on programs and policies designed to enhance the development of local and regional economics.

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The Roots of State Intervention in the Brazilian Economy provides a historical review focusing on the period between 1964's military takeover to today's economic crisis which developed in the late '70s-early '80s.

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The lack of effective leadership and disciplined workforce is a major contributor to the lack of economic development and progress in the Sub-Saharan African countries.

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The Visionary Realism of German Economics forms a collection of Erik S. Reinerts essays bringing the more realistic German economic tradition into focus as an alternative to Anglo-Saxon neoclassical mainstream economics.

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An expert on East European politics and economics analyzes and evaluates Western policies toward the new East European democracies as they struggle to build stable political orders and functioning market economies.

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An expert on East European politics and economics analyzes and evaluates Western policies toward the new East European democracies as they struggle to build stable political orders and functioning market economies.

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Traces the evolution of the international debt crisis from the early 1970s to the late 1980s, examining the reasons why many third world countries are in debt. The changing roles of the IMF and the world bank are discussed, as are the roles of US, European and Japanese commercial banks.

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The Third World in Soviet Perspective consists of translations of a representative selection of essays on numerous aspects of the developing areas by prominent and promising Soviet scholars. They deal with Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and range over such subjects as economic development, class relationships, political forces, and agrarian refor

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