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Right to Know
Transparency for an Open World
Av Ann Florini
Inbunden, 2007
436 kr
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The Right to Know is a timely and compelling consideration of a vital question: What information should governments and other powerful organizations disclose? Excessive secrecy corrodes democracy, facilitates corruption, and undermines good public policymaking, but keeping a lid on military …
Privatization
Successes and Failures
Inbunden, 2008
1030 kr
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The privatization of large state-owned enterprises is one of the most radical policy developments of the last quarter century. Right-wing governments have privatized in an effort to decrease the size of government, while left-wing governments have privatized either to compensate for the failures of …
Escaping the Resource Curse
Av Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey D. Sachs m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
316 kr
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The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we have seen the surprising and sobering consequences of this wealth, producing what is now known as the "resource curse." Countries with large …
Taxation in Developing Countries
Six Case Studies and Policy Implications
Av Roger Gordon
Inbunden, 2010
1220 kr
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Taxes are a crucial policy issue, especially in developing countries. Just recently, proposals to raise middle-class taxes toppled the Bolivian government, and plans to extend or increase the value-added tax caused political unrest in Ecuador and Mexico. Despite the impact of tax policy on …
Growth and Policy in Developing Countries
A Structuralist Approach
Av Jose Antonio Ocampo, Codrina Rada m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
350 kr
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Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that …
Reforming the International Financial System for Development
Inbunden, 2011
522 kr
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The 1944 Bretton Woods conference created new institutions for international economic governance. Though flawed, the system led to a golden age in postwar reconstruction, sustained economic growth, job creation, and postcolonial development. Yet financial liberalization since the 1970s has involved …
Macroeconomics and Development
Roberto Frenkel and the Economics of Latin America
Av Mario Damill, Martín Rapetti m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
670 kr
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Latin American neo-structuralism is a cutting-edge, regionally focused economic theory with broad implications for macroeconomics and development economics. Roberto Frenkel has spent five decades developing the theory's core arguments and expanding their application throughout the discipline, …
Industrial Policy and Economic Transformation in Africa
Av Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz
Inbunden, 2015
651 kr
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The revival of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is all the more welcome for having followed one of the worst economic disasters-a quarter century of economic malaise for most of the region-since the industrial revolution. Six of the world's fastest-growing economies in the first decade of this …
Too Little, Too Late
The Quest to Resolve Sovereign Debt Crises
Av Martin Guzman, Jose Antonio Ocampo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
715 kr
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The current approach to resolving sovereign debt crises does not work: sovereign debt restructurings come too late and address too little. Though unresolved debt crises impose enormous costs on societies, many recent restructurings have not been deep enough to provide the conditions for economic …
Efficiency, Finance, and Varieties of Industrial Policy
Guiding Resources, Learning, and Technology for Sustained Growth
Av Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz
Inbunden, 2016
694 kr
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Industrial policy, once relegated to resource allocation, technological improvements, and the modernization of industries, should be treated as a serious component of sustainability and developmental economics. A rich set of complimentary institutions, shared behavioral norms, and public policies …
Welfare State Revisited
Av José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph E. Stiglitz
Inbunden, 2018
694 kr
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The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring …
International Policy Rules and Inequality
Implications for Global Economic Governance
Inbunden, 2019
759 kr
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Over the past decades, the world has seen a dramatic increase in inequality. To what extent have the rules that govern the global economy, formally or informally, affected this trend? How can global governance arrangements be reformed to counteract them?In this book, an interdisciplinary group of …
Quality of Growth in Africa
Av Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
670 kr
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In recent years, concerns about the outcomes and nature of economic growth have given way to a new emphasis on its quality. This volume brings together prominent international contributors to consider a range of interrelated questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa, with a primary focus …
Great Polarization
How Ideas, Power, and Policies Drive Inequality
Av Rudiger von Arnim, Joseph E. Stiglitz
Inbunden, 2022
608 kr
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Inequality of income and wealth has skyrocketed since the 1970s. As the super-rich have grasped the vast majority of the gains from economic growth, labor’s share of income has declined. The middle class has stagnated, and those at the bottom have become even worse off. Persistent structural …
The Future of Work in Developing Countries
Av Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
827 kr
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One of the most pressing issues in development today is the employment challenge in low- and middle-income countries. As more young people enter the labor force—and as structural transformation unfolds amid deindustrialization, technological disruption, and global competition—the question of how to …
From Equity to Growth
Social Discontent in Developing Countries
Av José Antonio Ocampo, Jonathan Malagon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
436 kr
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In many emerging economies, impressive progress in reducing poverty has been overshadowed by persistent inequality and growing frustration with political elites. This widespread social discontent has driven governments to respond with short-term policies aimed at increasing equity that run the risk …
New Perspectives on International Migration and Development
Av Jeronimo Cortina, Enrique Ochoa-Reza
Inbunden, 2013
608 kr
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With contributions from leading scholars in international development, economics, political science, and sociology, this collection draws attention to migration's developmental impacts on sending and receiving societies. Through current case studies, contributors examine the interplay among …
