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Provides new ideas to address today's global development challenges, evaluating past experience and exploring answers for the future.

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Challenging conventional wisdom, this work argues that the US federal government, not the private sector, created the dynamic New Economy. It aims to help readers who want to discover the causal factors that created the conditions for the unprecedented economic boom of the 1990s.

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An examination of theoretical development economics that points the way to further empirical work.

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This expert analysis looks at what the increasing economic and political prominence of China and other Asian nations means to the West and the rest of the world.

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Looking into the future is always difficult and often problematic - but sometimes its useful to imagine what innovations might resolve todays problems and make tomorrow better. In this book, 15 distinguished international experts examine how technology will affect the human condition and natural world within the next ten years.

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Broken Promises of Globalization: The Case of the Bangladesh Garment Industry contributes to the contemporary debate on the limits and possibilities of globalization to the global south. It examines how a Least Developed Country is dealing with both domestic and external pressures in its response to neo-liberalization.

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The Marshall Plan has been widely regarded as a realistic yet generous policy, and a wise construction of the national interest. But how was the blend of interest and generosity in the minds of its initiators transformed in the process of bureaucratic administration Hadley Arkes studies the Marshall Plan as an example of the process by which a nat

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Business finance in less developed economies cannot be analyzed or measured by the approaches utilized in countries, such as the United States and Great Britain, where stock markets can assess worth and channel capital with reasonable accuracy.

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Why does capital formation often fail to occur in developing countries This work explores the political incentives that either foster growth or steal nations' growth prospects. It examines the frontier between risk and uncertainty, analyzing the forces driving development in both developed and undeveloped regions.

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Examines the theory and practice of government interventions in the financial sector of two newly-industrialising countries, Brazil and South Korea. Findings explain the widespread use of such interventions, despite the generally negative predictions which derive from more prominent theories.

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Explores how Latin America has handled the 1994 Mexican crisis and the debt crisis of the 1980s, revealing the full extent of the "tequila effect."

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China and Sustainable Development in Latin America documents the social and environmental impacts of the China-led commodity boom in Latin America. It also highlights important areas of innovation where governments, communities and investors have worked together to harness the commodity boom for the benefit of the people and the planet.

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China and Sustainable Development in Latin America documents the social and environmental impacts of the China-led commodity boom in Latin America. It also highlights important areas of innovation where governments, communities and investors have worked together to harness the commodity boom for the benefit of the people and the planet.

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This book provides a complete picture of the Chinese economy over the past six decades, focusing on the recent comprehensive reform program and current international evaluations of China's long-term economic prospects.

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This book provides a complete picture of the Chinese economy over the past six decades, focusing on the recent comprehensive reform program and current international evaluations of China's long-term economic prospects.

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The study supports the idea that entrepreneurship is the key to economic development, but it also shows that private entrepreneurship influences government policy and traditional values. It also points out the vital role of the consumer.

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Climate change threatens all people, but its adverse effects will be felt most acutely by the world's poor. Absent urgent action, new threats to food security, public health, and other societal needs may reverse hard-fought human development gains.

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Until the past decade, development experts shared a conception of how to facilitate development in the Third World countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Instead, scholars and development planners began to search for alternative models of development and for other conceptions of development communication.