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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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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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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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"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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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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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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Analyzing global successes and failures, this work argues for the centrality of human factor development to sustainable economic development.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Examines the impact of ideas, through "knowledge networks" of analysts, on Latin American economic policy.

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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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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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'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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This book shifts focus to policy and practical measures relating to implementing the right to development.

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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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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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In more than one hundred developing countries, international organizations continuously offer practical assistance for economic advancement and social change--assistance that in some cases forms a substantial part of national programs. This book examines international aid in three countries-Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia--in order to ascertain how as