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  • Place, Productivity, and Prosperity

    Revisiting Spatially Targeted Policies for Regional Development

    by Arti Grover, Somik Lall, William Maloney ...
    Place matters for productivity and prosperity. Myriad factors support a successful place, including not only the hard infrastructure such as roads, but also the softer elements such as worker skills, entrepreneurial ability, and well-functioning institutions. History suggests that prosperous places tend to persist, while "left-behind" regions—or those hurt by climatic, technological, or commercial ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Place, Productivity, and Prosperity

    Revisiting Spatially Targeted Policies for Regional Development

    by Arti Grover, Somik Lall, William Maloney ...
    Place matters for productivity and prosperity. Myriad factors support a successful place, including not only the hard infrastructure such as roads, but also the softer elements such as worker skills, entrepreneurial ability, and well-functioning institutions. History suggests that prosperous places tend to persist, while “left behind†? regions, or those hurt by climatic, technological, or ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It

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    Since the financial crisis of 2008, many of us have had to reexamine our beliefs about markets and globalization. How integrated should economies really be? How much regulation is right?Many people fuse these two dimensions of choice into one, either favoring both globalization and deregulation-or opposing both of them.It doesn’t have to be that way.In World 3.0, award-winning author and economist ... Read more

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  • One Economics, Many Recipes

    Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth

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  • Beating the Odds

    Jump-Starting Developing Countries

    by Célestin Monga, Justin Yifu Lin ...
    How poor countries can ignite economic growth without waiting for global action or the creation of ideal local conditionsContrary to conventional wisdom, countries that ignite a process of rapid economic growth almost always do so while lacking what experts say are the essential preconditions for development, such as good infrastructure and institutions. In Beating the Odds, two of the world's ... Read more

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  • Development Economics Through The Decades: A Critical Look At Thirty Years Of The World Development Report

    by Yusuf. Shahid ...
    Since 1978, the World Bank's annual World Development Report (WDR) has provided in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on a specific and important aspect of international development from agriculture, the role of the state, economic growth, and labor to infrastructure, health, the environment, and poverty. In the process, it has become a highly influential publication that is consulted by ... Read more

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  • Efficiency, Finance, and Varieties of Industrial Policy

    Guiding Resources, Learning, and Technology for Sustained Growth

    Edited by Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    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 have sustained economic growth from Britain's industrial revolution onwards. This volume revisits the ... Read more

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  • Gender and Climate Change Financing

    Coming out of the margin

    by Mariama Williams ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    This book discusses the state of global climate change policy and the financing of climate resilient public infrastructure. It explains the sources of tensions and conflict between developing and developed countries with regard to global climate protection policies, and highlights the biases and asymmetries that may work against gender equality, women’s empowerment and poverty eradication.Gender ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation

    Edited by Célestin Monga, Justin Yifu Lin ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation addresses the economics of structural transformation around the world. It deals with major themes, which include history and context, critical issues and concepts, methodological foundations, main theoretical approaches, policy issues, some illuminating country experiences of structural transformation, and important debates on the respective roles ... Read more

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  • The Last Mile in Ending Extreme Poverty

    Edited by Laurence Chandy, Hiroshi Kato, Homi Kharas ...
    Viewed from a global scale, steady progress has been made in reducing extreme poverty-defined by the $1.25-a-day poverty line-over the past three decades. This success has sparked renewed enthusiasm about the possibility of eradicating extreme poverty within a generation. However, progress is expected to become more difficult, and slower, over time. This book will examine three central changes ... Read more

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    This book analyzes the adverse effects of globalization and liberalization — acutely manifest in the increased financialization of capital and the concomitant global financial crisis of 2008–09 — on the labour force, especially in the developing countries. Drawing upon case studies from several countries including India, Columbia, Malawi, Brazil and Thailand, it highlights the worsening plight of ... Read more

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  • Envisioning 2060

    Opportunities and Risks for Emerging Markets

    Edited by Harinder Kohli, Rajat Nag, Ieva Vilkelyte ...
    Envisioning 2060 is a collection of articles by some of the world's greatest economists and authors. Its carefully planned chapters encompass all major aspects of the evolving global economy-with a particular emphasis on emerging markets and economies-painting a wholesome picture for the contemporary reader, of what our world might grow to look like in the next forty years if we succeed or fail at ... Read more

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