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The new Brazil
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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 … |
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Chipping away at public debt
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Paolo Mauro |
"This book, edited and researched by experts at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), looks at fiscal adjustment plans in advanced economies, comparing the planned or projected reductions in debts a… |
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Digital assassination
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Richard Torrenzano |
"Two leading reputation experts reveal how the internet is being used to destroy brands, reputations and even lives, and how to fight back. From false Wikipedia entries, to fake YouTube videos, to F… |
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Privatization of public services
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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… |
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New sources of development finance
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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 … |
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State structure and economic development in Southeast Asia structuring development
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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… |
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Happiness and hardship
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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… |
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The road to stability and prosperity in South Eastern Europe
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World Bank |
ix, 156 p. : 28 cm |
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Development as process
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David Mosse,Alan Rew,John Farrington |
1 online resource (xii, 202 pages) |
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Results that matter
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Paul D. Epstein,Paul Epstein,Paul M. Coates,Lyle D. Wray,David Swain |
xxvii, 242 p. : 25 cm |
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Latin America transformed
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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… |
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The nature of economic growth
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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… |
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Dealing with China
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Henry M. Paulson |
"Henry M. Paulson, Jr., former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and CEO of Goldman Sachs, delivers a behind-the-scenes account of China's rise as an economic superpower. When Hu Jintao, China's then vi… |
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Economic policy & equity
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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… |
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World development
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Barry Baker |
Annotation |
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Global monitoring report 2013
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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… |
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Teodoro Moscoso and Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap
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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, … |
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globalization
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Judd Kahn,Bruce C. N. Greenwald |
In Globalization, authors Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn cut through the myths surrounding globalization and look more closely at its real impact, presenting a more accurate picture of the present sta… |
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Early Modern Capitalism
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Maarten Prak |
viii, 236 p. : 24 cm |
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Outsourcing Sovereignty
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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 … |
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