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This revised edition examines economic development programmes in the light of economic changes of the past decade. It discusses the role of the state, inter-municipal competition, foreign investment and federal funds and includes a generic PC-based fiscal impact model.

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This revised edition examines economic development programmes in the light of economic changes of the past decade. It discusses the role of the state, inter-municipal competition, foreign investment and federal funds and includes a generic PC-based fiscal impact model.

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How and why democratic governments in Latin America have implemented neoliberal developmental policies such as freeing exchange rates, privatizing state-owned companies, reducing governmental budget deficits through reduction in size of the government, reducing tariffs, and encouraging foreign private investments is discussed in this work.

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Addressing issues of poverty and underdevelopment, this work examines why these problems arise, and how they can be approached and prevented. It aims to bridge the gap between neoclassical models of growth and development and the modern structuralist approaches to the study of economic development.

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This work considers the status of women in the economies of countries at various stages of development.

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Takes the readers into the secretive, chaotic, and brutal worlds inhabited by the economic gangsters. This title uses economics to get inside the heads of these 'gangsters', and proposes solutions that can make a difference to the world's poor. It looks at how economists use the tools to understand, and fight back against, corruption and violence.

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Although not previously well documented, many instances of regional economic integration occur among Third World countries.

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The rapid development of Asian countries has met with mixed reactions among economists. In Eastern Asia, regional interdependence has been important to developing countries. This work discusses the interaction between the regional economies through trade and foreign direct investment, relating interaction to economic growth and development.

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This second volume in the Consortium on Human Rights Development's special studies on adjustment programs in Africa combines theory with empirical evidence and economic with political analysis to provide the most comprehensive multi-disciplinary coverage to date on IMF and World Bank adjustment programs in Africa.

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Reflects on the association between economic liberalization policies and labor markets in a host of developing and transition economies.

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This study examines the relative successes and failures of reform programs in Poland and Czechoslovakia, as well as the causes of these successes and failures.

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Rapid economic changes throughout the world economy offer new possibilities for economic development. Yet the multitude of people in an impoverished underclass often find the burst of economic development in their country continues to exclude them.

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Offers a vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. This book demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society - "embedded autonomy"'.

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Contributors to this volume profile the energy situation in the developing countries, assess the role of energy policy in Third World development, and discuss the global energy situation in relation to these countries' consumption, production, trade, and resource endowment.

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Examines ways that environmental sustainability has been - and might be - incorporated into existing theories of economic development.

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Examines ways that environmental sustainability has been - and might be - incorporated into existing theories of economic development.

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The explanatory theories include the stage-based theories of Marx, Schumpeter, and Rostow, and factor-based theories, including capital-based, human-capital-based, and technology-based theories.

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Discussions of the use and limits of randomized control trials, considering the power of theory, external validity, gaps in knowledge, and what issues matter.

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This book assesses feasible financing strategies for policymakers to follow in pursuance of human development;how to make macroeconomic policies support more effectively sustained growth while reducing widespread poverty and inequalities and other human development gaps in low and middle income countries.

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This book assesses feasible financing strategies for policymakers to follow in pursuance of human development;how to make macroeconomic policies support more effectively sustained growth while reducing widespread poverty and inequalities and other human development gaps in low and middle income countries.

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