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  • The Developer's Dilemma

    Structural Transformation, Inequality Dynamics, and Inclusive Growth

    Edited by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Kunal Sen, Andy Sumner, Arief Yusuf ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Developing countries seek economic development which is broad-based or inclusive in the sense that it raises the income of all, especially the poor. Yet this is at odds with Simon ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Great Gatsby and the Global South

    Intergenerational Mobility, Income Inequality, and Development

    by Diding Sakri, Andy Sumner, Arief Anshory Yusuf ...
    Series series Elements in Development Economics
    In the Global South economic mobility across generations or intergenerational economic mobility is in and of itself an important topic for research with consequences for policy. It concerns the 'stickiness' or otherwise of inequality because mobility is concerned with the extent to which children's economic outcomes are dependent on their parents' economic outcomes. Scholars have estimated levels ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Deindustrialization, Distribution, and Development

    Structural Change in the Global South

    by Andy Sumner ...
    The term rust belt has rarely been associated with developing countries. In fact, it is commonly used to discuss deindustrialization in advanced nations, particularly the US. However, this book argues that such a belt is now threatening the middle-income developing world, spreading across Brazil and other countries in Latin America, running down across South Africa, and then upwards to Malaysia, ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Economics and Development Studies

    by Michael Tribe, Frederick Nixson, Andy Sumner ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Development studies textbooks and courses have sometimes tended to avoid significant economic content. However, without an understanding of the economic aspects of international development many of the more complex issues cannot be fully comprehended. Economics and Development Studies makes the economic dimension of discourse around controversial issues in international development accessible to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights

    Past, Present and Future

    Edited by Malcolm Langford, Andy Sumner, Alicia Ely Yamin ...
    The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have generated tremendous discussion in global policy and academic circles. On the one hand, they have been hailed as the most important initiative ever in international development. On the other hand, they have been described as a great betrayal of human rights and universal values that has contributed to a depoliticization of development. With ... Read more

    $54.19 USD

  • The End of Poverty

    Inequality and Growth in Global Perspective

    by Peter Edward, Andy Sumner ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In this book Edward and Sumner argue that to better understand the impact of global growth on poverty it is necessary to consider what happens across a wide range of poverty lines. Starting with the same datasets used to produce official estimates of global poverty, they create a model of global consumption that spans the entire world’s population. They go on to demonstrate how their model can be ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Aid, Growth and Poverty

    by Jonathan Glennie, Andy Sumner ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The authors discuss the impact of foreign aid and tackle the question of why assessing the impact of aid is so difficult. The authors focus on peer-reviewed, cross-country studies published over the last decade and draw together some global-level assessments, considering the context and conditions under which aid might be said to ‘work’. Glennie and Sumner argue that the evidence in four areas ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Development and Distribution

    Structural Change in South East Asia

    by Andy Sumner ...
    Since the Second World War, surprisingly few developing countries have experienced a truly sustained episode of economic and social convergence towards the structural characteristics of the advanced nations. East Asia has exceeded most regions in its achievement of convergence, and much has been written on comparative industrialization and development in North East Asia. Less discussed is South ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation

    by Lukas Schlogl, Andy Sumner ...
    Series series Rethinking International Development series
    This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ‘robot reserve army’ has profound effects on labor markets and economic development, but, rather than causing mass unemployment, new technologies are more likely to lead to stagnant wages and premature deindustrialization ... Read more

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  • Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals

    A Critical Look Forward

    Edited by Alberto Cimadamore, Gabriele Koehler, Thomas Pogge ...
    Series series International Studies in Poverty Research
    As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda. By examining current development efforts, goals and ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Global Economic Institutions

    by Willem Molle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    This book critically examines global economic institutions. It presents an accessible fluid history of globalization and explains how global public goods should be defined and how global economic institutions work. It also looks at the effect that major organizations - including the WTO, IMF and UNEP - have on areas such as finance, the environment ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Economics of Enough

    How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

    by Diane Coyle ...
    The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD