Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
In Good Company	Rebecca Jordan	Helps women of all ages and backgrounds to gain the confidence, contacts and knowledge they need to set up on their own. Using the authors' experiences of setting up Gapwork.com, this book covers all…	OL15180856W
The new Brazil	Riordan Roett	"Recounts Brazil's evolution from remote Portuguese colony, through economic crises that led to more prudent monetary policies, and to its new status as a regional leader, a respected ambassador for …	OL15617094W
Privatization of public services	Christoph Hermann	"Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the successes of public se…	OL16283385W
Impact investing	Jed Emerson,Antony Bugg-Levine	"A ground-breaking book on the transformative power of impact investingThis is the first book to chart the catalytic path of this new industry, explaining how it is and can be a positive disruptive f…	OL16414809W
The everything start your own business book	Judith B. Harrington	Here is everything you need to start your own business-- and everything you need to keep it running in the black as well. The book and CD are loaded with business-plan examples, useful lists, sample …	OL16540911W
New sources of development finance	A. B. Atkinson	"This book sets out a framework for the economic analysis of different funding sources. It examines a series of new and controversial proposals, including global taxes such as a carbon tax, a global …	OL16642350W
State structure and economic development in Southeast Asia structuring development	Antoinette Raquiza	"This book considers late developing market economies, exploring the differences in performance in these economies, which are particularly vulnerable to political turmoil, crony capitalism and extern…	OL16643864W
Happiness and hardship	Carol Graham,Stefano Pettinato	"In Happiness and Hardship, Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato argue that the political sustainability of market-oriented growth is determined as much by relative income levels and trends as by absol…	OL1883401W
The road to stability and prosperity in South Eastern Europe	World Bank	ix, 156 p. : 28 cm	OL18840134W
Development as process	David Mosse,Alan Rew,John Farrington	1 online resource (xii, 202 pages)	OL19222729W
Latin America transformed	Cristóbal Kay,Robert N. Gwynne	Now in a second edition, this book explains Latin America's economic, political, social and cultural transformations, its association with globalization and search for modernity, and how these transf…	OL19882122W
The nature of economic growth	A. P. Thirlwall	This text charts development economics as it evolved from Adam Smith to "new" or endogenous growth theory. Thirlwall is critical of the latter, and its predecessor neo-classical growth theory, and tr…	OL19890113W
Starting your own business	Jim Green	Focuses on how to develop an exciting enterprise from the original germ of an idea. This book covers topics such as: Finding a good idea; Getting started; Creating a winning business plan; Funding yo…	OL19903742W
Economic policy & equity	Sanjeev Gupta,Vito Tanzi,Ke-young Chu	This book brings together the views not only of policymakers and academics but also of religious leaders and labor leaders from around the world- including the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Amart…	OL20607305W
World development	Barry Baker	Annotation	OL20877129W
Global monitoring report 2013	World Bank	The Global Monitoring Report 2013: Rural-Urban Dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals examines rural-urban disparities in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how urb…	OL24660724W
Start your dream business	Sarah Wade	Do you harbour dreams of being your own boss and doing something that you are truly passionate about? Do you have a great idea on the back-burner, but fear giving up the security of a regular salary?…	OL27974574W
Teodoro Moscoso and Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap	A. W. Maldonado	"Long overdue and of superb quality, this book examines the contribution of Moscoso (the architect of Operation Bootstrap) to the politics and economics of Puerto Rico. Describes the man, the times, …	OL3353506W
Early Modern Capitalism	Maarten Prak	viii, 236 p. : 24 cm	OL8095917W
Outsourcing Sovereignty	Paul R. Verkuil	This book describes the largely overlooked process of using private government contractors to perform essential or inherent functions in the military and civilian sectors of government. It shows how …	OL9396795W