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  • The Missing Billions: National Treasury Funds That Disappeared Between Budget Allocation and Project Completion

    by Corwin Ashfeld Vance ...
    A general is dying in exile with four billion dollars scattered across bank vaults on three continents. A finance minister signs a completion certificate for a hospital that was never built. A Swiss banker opens a numbered account and asks no questions, because the fee for asking none is exactly why the money is there. This is not fiction. Every name, every figure, and every vanished fortune in ... Read more

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  • Dead Aid

    Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Fastest Billion

    The Story Behind Africa's Economic Revolution

    by Charles Robertson ...
    From the vantage point of many in the West, Africa remains a continent of woe – a place stalked by ethnic conflict, corrupt dictatorships, religious strife, war and famine. But today, at last, the flawed mythology that treats Africa as a homogenous disaster area is being challenged by investors, economists, fund managers and academics. Age is not often associated with speed; but Africa, the cradle ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oil Curse

    How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations

    by Michael L. Ross ...
    Explaining—and solving—the oil curse in the developing worldCountries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael L. Ross looks at how developing nations are shaped by their mineral wealth—and how they can turn oil from a ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Tax Havens

    How Globalization Really Works

    by Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, Christian Chavagneux ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Money
    If you are looking to understand how tax havens and offshore financial centers work, how they are governed (or not!), and what kind of economic and political impacts they have, then this book is for you! This recent text by well-recognized experts in the field is a most welcome addition to the literatures.... It fills an important void, since there was not until now a general but nevertheless ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Fiscal Federalism

    by George Anderson ...
    A concise introduction to the ways in which the world's federations manage their finances. Topics covered include the distribution of taxation powers among different levels of government; regional equalization schemes; authority over natural resource revenues; and the impact of federal systems of government on pension, welfare, and income assistance programs. The book targets second-, third-, and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The BRIC Road to Growth

    by Jim O'Neill ...
    Series series Perspectives
    The idea that Brazil, Russia, India and China (the "BRICs") are the rising stars of the world economy is now widely accepted. However, the "old" developed nations have not adjusted to the new world order as they struggle with the legacy of the financial crisis. The BRICs and others (especially Korea) have already ‘emerged’ as economic powers. This requires rapid adjustment in economic policies and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The United States and the Global Economy

    From Bretton Woods to the Current Crisis

    by Frederick S. Weaver ...
    Financial collapse. Global recession. The revival of free-market policies. Massive and increasing inequalities. Housing bubbles and record foreclosures. Severe strain in the European Union. Emergence of China and other major players on the international economic scene. Every day, media outlets bombard us with news and possible explanations for the financial, economic, and political crises. In The ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank

    Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers

    by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet ...
    Mainstream economists tell us that developing countries will replicate the economic achievements of the rich countries if they implement the correct “free-market”policies. But scholars and activists Toussaint and Millet demonstrate that this is patently false. Drawing on a wealth of detailed evidence, they explain how developed economies have systematically and deliberately exploited the less ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Agricultural Trade Reform And The Doha Development Agenda

    by Anderson Kym; Martin Will ...
    Agricultural trade reform is critical to a favorable development outcome from the Doha Development Agenda. But agricultural policies and the policy reforms being contemplated are fiendishly complicated, and the devil is in the details. Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda builds up from the essential detail of the tariffs and other protection measures, and uses this ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Remedy and Reaction

    by Paul Starr ...

    $27.99 CAD

  • Should Britain Leave the EU?

    An Economic Analysis of a Troubled Relationship, Second Edition

    by Patrick Minford, Vo P.M. Le, Vidya Mahambare, Yongdeng Xu ...
    Placed in the context of the upcoming referendum, this second edition brings up to date a thorough review of all economic aspects of the UK's membership of the EU. It notes the intention of the EU to move to 'ever closer union' and the nature of the regulatory and general economic philosophy of its dominant members, whose position is enforced by qualified majority voting. The book highlights the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD