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  • The Great Curse

    Land Concentration in History and in Development

    by Albert Berry ...
    Land concentration has been a central feature of the history of nearly all empires, regions, and countries, and has underpinned the creation of the state and of inegalitarian and elitist societies. It is the key feature of the "monopolization model", whereby a small group attains access to the great bulk of available land, labor, and capital to achieve a high level of income and wealth. The degree ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Economic Policy And Income Distribution In Colombia

    by R. Albert Berry ...
    This book assesses the distributional impact of a number of economic policies on the distribution of income by examining several examples from Colombia. It provides a better base for quantitative comparisons of the effects of different policies. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Colombia's Political Economy at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century

    From Uribe to Santos and Beyond

    by Bruce M. Bagley, Jonathan D. Rosen, José Antonio Ocampo, Albert Berry, Sandra Borda, Marten W. Brienen, Fernando Cepeda Ulloa, Marc Chernick, Malcolm Deas0, Santiago Gómez1, Lisa Haugaard2, Mateo Morales Callejas3, Juan Pablo Milanese4, Luz del Soccorro Ramirez5, Angelika Rettberg6, Adam Isacson7, Arlene B. Tickner8, Coletta A. Youngers9 ...
    Series series Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
    This volume examines Colombia’s political economy at the outset of the twenty-first century. A group of leading experts explores various issues, such as drug trafficking, organized crime, economic performance, the internal armed conflict, and human rights. The experts highlight the various challenges that Colombia faces today. This volume is a major contribution to the field and provides a current ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Losing Ground in the Employment Challenge

    The Case of Paraguay

    by Albert Berry ...
    Most developing countries face significant and sometimes dramatic challenges in generating stable jobs that provide reasonable incomes and decent working conditions. For developing countries that have undergone lengthy periods of economic stagnation, these challenges are especially acute, and popular dissatisfaction correspondingly marked.Paraguay is a case in point. It is unlikely that any ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Fulfilling the Export Potential of Small and Medium Firms

    by Jeffrey B. Nugent, Albert Berry, Brian Levy ...
    Fulfilling the Export Potential of Small and Medium Firms addresses the question, `How can economic policy contribute to a strong export performance by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries?' In today's increasingly integrated world economy, such a performance can make a significant difference to the growth, employment creation and income distribution of many developing ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Labor Market Policies in Canada and Latin America: Challenges of the New Millennium

    Edited by R. Albert Berry ...
    Canada and the countries of Latin America are in the midst of major changes and choices in the area of labor markets and related social policy. These decisions are likely to have profound consequences for the quality of life of workers throughout the hemisphere.Labor Market Policies in Canada and Latin America: Challenges of the New Millennium reviews the evidence of Canada and Latin America on ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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  • Globalization And Development: A Latin American And Caribbean Perspective

    by Ocampo Jose Antonio; Martin Juan ...
    Customers in the US and Canada please order from Stanford University Press at (800) 621-2736 or visit their website at www.sup.org. In this book, ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) draws upon the Latin American and Caribbean region's experience in order to formulate a historical and multidimensional assessment of the globalization process from the perspectives of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Political Economy

    Edited by Javier Santiso, Jeff Dayton-Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Latin America's recent development performance calls for a multidisciplinary analytical tool kit. This handbook accordingly adopts a political-economy perspective to understand Latin American economies. This perspective is not new to the region; indeed, this volume consciously follows the approach pioneered by political economist Albert O. Hirschman a half century ago. But the nature of the ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Solving the Riddle of Globalization and Development

    Edited by Manuel Agosin, David Bloom, George Chapelier, Jagdish Saigal ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    In the past two decades many developing countries have embraced the challenge of globalization by rushing to dismantle trade barriers and to promote increasingly liberal market-oriented policies. However, a broader response to globalization is both necessary and possible if countries are to develop as quickly and as fully as possible.Exploring this complex interrelationship between globalization, ... Read more

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  • From Windfall to Curse?

    Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present

    by Jonathan Di John ...
    Since the discovery of abundant oil resources in the 1920s, Venezuela has had an economically privileged position among the nations of Latin America, which has led to its being treated by economic and political analysts as an exceptional case. In her well-known study of Venezuela’s political economy, The Paradox of Plenty (1997), Stanford political scientist Terry Karl argued that this oil wealth ... Read more

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  • The End of Poverty

    Economic Possibilities for Our Time

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    **"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The EconomistThe landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists**Hailed by ***Time***as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work ... Read more

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  • Saving for Development

    How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Save More and Better

    by Inter-American Development Bank ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Why should people - and economies - save? This book on the savings problem in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that, while saving to survive the bad times is important, saving to thrive in the good times is what really counts. People must save to invest in health and education, live productive and fulfilling lives, and make the most of their retirement years. Firms must save to grow their ... Read more

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