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By: Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka

ISBN: 9781839991974
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Anthem Press
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By: Peter Tamas Bauer

ISBN: 9780691117829
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Shows the impact of people's conduct, their cultural institutions, and the policies of their governments on economic progress. This book includes the process that transforms a subsistence economy into an exchange economy, the correlation between poverty and population density, and the alleged responsibility of the West for Third World poverty.


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By: Peter Marber

ISBN: 9780738201320
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1999
Publisher: Basic Books
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In this analysis of developing nations, investment, and global business expansion, Peter Marber identifies the risks and rewards of investing in emerging markets, and reveals new sources of conflict as value systems clash in a game of global economic integration.


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By: Sylvia Maxfield

ISBN: 9780691002439
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Central banks can shape economic growth, affect income distribution, influence a country's foreign relations, and determine the extent of its democracy. This book focuses on central banking in emerging market countries. It suggests that central bank independence in emerging market countries does not spring from law but rather from politics.


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By: Charles Kenny

ISBN: 9780465031030
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Basic Books
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"Elegant and deeply researched... a powerful antidote to overly gloomy assessments of development aid...Charles Kenny shines a light on the real successes of aid, and he shows us the benefits that additional smart investment can bring."-Bill Gates, Wall Street Journal


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By: Laurence Chandy

ISBN: 9780815724193
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The global development community is teeming with different ideas and interventions to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. This book explores what it takes to expand the reach of development solutions beyond an individual village or pilot program so they serve poor people everywhere.


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By: Lael Brainard

ISBN: 9780815713937
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The fight against global poverty has quickly become one of the hottest tickets on the global agenda with rock stars, world leaders, and multibillionaires calling attention to the plight of the poor at international confabs such as the World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative.


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By: Senyo B-S. K. Adjibolosoo

ISBN: 9780275959661
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Analyzing global successes and failures, this work argues for the centrality of human factor development to sustainable economic development.


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By: John A. Mathews

ISBN: 9781783086412
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Anthem Press
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The greening of industry is described as a global process driven not so much by Western countries concerned with climate change as by China, India and other industrializing countries responding to economic imperatives as they scale up their industrial systems. This is described as economics meeting ecology, or Ceres meeting Gaia.


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By: John A. Mathews

ISBN: 9781783086405
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Anthem Press
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The greening of industry is described as a global process driven not so much by Western countries concerned with climate change as by China, India and other industrializing countries responding to economic imperatives as they scale up their industrial systems. This is described as economics meeting ecology, or Ceres meeting Gaia.


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By: Marcelo Olarreaga

ISBN: 9780815736714
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This thoughtful volume assesses the likely impact of reformed trade policies on the poorest of the poor those on the bottom economic rungs in developing nations.


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By: Felix M. Edoho

ISBN: 9780275955175
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Globalization presents a paradox in light of the tendency toward regionalization in world trade and investment, and the emergence of the three economic super blocsthe Asia-Pacific Rim, North America, and the European Economic Community.


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By: James Riedel

ISBN: 9780691125626
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Is China's growth sustainable, or has China relied too much on investment, which is subject to diminishing returns, and not enough on technological change Dealing with the relation between investment, finance, and growth in China, this book dismisses this concern.


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By: James Riedel

ISBN: 9780691248066
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Is China's growth sustainable, or has China relied too much on investment, which is subject to diminishing returns, and not enough on technological change Dealing with the relation between investment, finance, and growth in China, this book dismisses this concern.


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By: Anders slund

ISBN: 9780815704256
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Provides a detailed and insightful assessment of the Russian transformation from a socialist economy to a market economy. Anders Aslund discusses the preconditions of economic reform, the formation of a reform program, relations with other former Soviet republics, liberalization, macroeconomic stabilization, and privatization.


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By: Senyo B-S. K. Adjibolosoo

ISBN: 9780275954918
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Properly articulated, implemented, and operated, educational and training programs can help develop the necessary human qualities and skills required for economic development.


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By: Catherine Weaver

ISBN: 9780691138190
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The World Bank has attracted equal amounts of criticism and praise. Critics are especially quick to decry the World Bank's hypocrisy - the pervasive gaps between the organization's talk, decisions, and actions. This book explores how the characteristics of change in a complex international organization make hypocrisy difficult to resolve.


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By: Anil Hira

ISBN: 9780275962692
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examines the impact of ideas, through "knowledge networks" of analysts, on Latin American economic policy.


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By: Pradip K. Ghosh

ISBN: 9780313241376
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1984
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book documents and analyzes current trends in the industrialization and industrial development of Third World countries, and evaluates the progress they have made in the past decade in attaining the long term objectives of sustained economic growth and improvement in the quality of life for future generations.


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By: Jean-Marie Baland

ISBN: 9780691128795
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Would improving the economic, social, and political condition of the world's disadvantaged people slow - or accelerate - environmental degradation This book provide answers to this difficult question, using research on the impact of inequality on environmental sustainability.


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By: Alberto Chong

ISBN: 9781785271991
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Anthem Press
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'Information Technologies in Latin America' provides a collection of rigorous empirical studies that contributes to a better understanding of the role and impact of old and new information technologies on Latin American economic development through the use of randomized and quasi-experimental methods.


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By: Carol Chi Ngang

ISBN: 9781538144534
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book shifts focus to policy and practical measures relating to implementing the right to development.


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By: Mark Gradstein

ISBN: 9780262526371
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Experts address the development puzzleunprecedented growth coupled with unequal distribution of that growth across different countriesand focus on the importance of institutional arrangements and norms and culture.


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By: P. Kumar

ISBN: 9780899304618
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book identifies four sources of internal finance--tax policies, capital markets, specialized financial institutions (such as development banks), and privatization of the public sector. The author surveys the conceptual foundations of financial intermediation and then examines the role of capital markets and specialized financial institutions.

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