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Dissent on development
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P. T. Bauer |
The studies in this book cover a wide range of major issues in development economics. In the first part general problems of concept, method, analysis, historical experience, and policy are examined. … |
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The trouble with Africa
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Robert Calderisi |
Argues that many of Africa's problems are related to such internal factors as market mismanagement, anti-business sentiments, and fatalistic African family values, in an account that proposes radical… |
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The trouble with aid
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Jonathan Glennie |
Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems simple. Jonathan Glennie argues that government aid to Africa actually has many very harmful effects. He claims that aid has often m… |
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The UAE and foreign policy
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Khalid S. Almezaini |
"This book provides a detailed analysis of the foreign policy and foreign aid strategies of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Exploring the cultural factors that have impacted on the foreign policy beh… |
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Poverty reduction that works
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Neil Fernando |
"This book looks at twenty of the most innovative case studies of poverty reduction and Millennium Development Goal localization from fifteen countries. Many of the cases started as small scale inter… |
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The macroeconomics of scaling up aid
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Andrew Berg |
This study analyzes key issues associated with large increases in aid, including absorptive capacity, Dutch disease, and inflation. The authors develop a framework that emphasizes the different roles… |
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The Great Escape
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Angus Deaton |
A Nobel Prize–winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuries
The world is a better place t… |
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The End of Poverty
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Jeffrey Sachs |
A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizensAmong the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty dist… |
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