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  • Making Africa Work

    A Handbook

    by Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo, Jeffrey Herbst, Dickie Davis ...
    Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big inter-related challenges over the next generation. It will double its population to two billion by 2045. By then more than half of Africans will be living in cities. And this group of mostly young people will be connected with each other and the world through mobile devices. Properly harnessed and planned for, this is a tremendously positive force for change. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • The Divide

    Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets

    by Jason Hickel ...
    Global inequality doesn’t just exist; it has been created.More than four billion people—some 60 percent of humanity—live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate and geography and culture. It tells us that all we have to do is give a bit of aid here and there to help poor countries ... Read more

    $19.89 USD

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  • Why Africa is Poor

    And what Africans can do about it

    by Greg Mills ...
    Economic growth does not demand a secret formula. Good development examples now abound in East Asia and further afield in others parts of Asia, and in Central America. But why then has Africa failed to realise its potential in half a century of independence? Why Africa is Poor demonstrates that Africa is poor not because the world has denied the continent the market and financial means to compete: ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Corruption of Capitalism

    Why rentiers thrive and work does not pay

    by Guy Standing ...
    Politicians, financiers and bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, yet they have built the most unfree market system ever created. In this Gilded Age, income is funnelled to the owners of property – financial, physical and intellectual – at the expense of society. Wages stagnate as labour markets are transformed by outsourcing, automation and the on-demand economy, generating ... Read more

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  • The Fastest Billion

    The Story Behind Africa's Economic Revolution

    by Charles Robertson ...
    From the vantage point of many in the West, Africa remains a continent of woe – a place stalked by ethnic conflict, corrupt dictatorships, religious strife, war and famine. But today, at last, the flawed mythology that treats Africa as a homogenous disaster area is being challenged by investors, economists, fund managers and academics. Age is not often associated with speed; but Africa, the cradle ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Time Traveller's Guide to Our Next Ten Years

    by Frans Cronje ...
    Picture South Africa ten years from now: Are the angry poor rising up and seizing land and businesses? Or has economic reform created jobs and growth? Is an increasingly desperate government clamping down on freedoms? Or do the middle classes still braai in suburban bliss? South Africa is at a tipping point, and small shifts in political and economic conditions can bring about dramatic changes. ... Read more

    $14.69 USD

  • Is China Buying the World?

    by Peter Nolan ...
    China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies in the FT 500 list of the world's largest companies. ‘China's Rise' preoccupies the global media, which regularly carry articles suggesting that it is using its financial resources to ‘buy the world'.Is there any truth to this idea? Or is ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • The Race To The Bottom

    Why A Worldwide Worker Surplus And Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standards

    by Alan Tonelson ...
    With the end of the 1990s economic boom, The Race to the Bottom deftly explores how the United States has entered a no-win global competition in which the countries with the lowest wages, weakest workplace safety laws, and toughest repression of unions win investment from the U.S. and Europe. Tonelson analyzes how the entry of such population giants as China, India, and Mexico into the global ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Geography for the IB Diploma Study and Revision Guide HL Core Extension

    HL Core Extension

    by Simon Oakes ...
    Exam Board: IBLevel: IBSubject: GeographyFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2019**Stretch your students to achieve their best grade with these year round course companions; provides comprehensive content on all topics, and practice questions to support and strengthen learning.-** Develop understanding and knowledge with clear and concise coverage of... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Great European Rip-off

    How the Corrupt, Wasteful EU is Taking Control of Our Lives

    by Dr David Craig, Matthew Elliott ...
    In this EU referendum year, it's time for people across Europe to look at what really goes on in Brussels in our name.It has been estimated that the EU costs us around £1,000 billion a year - an incredible £2000 for every man, woman and child in Europe. So what do we get for our money? Politicians and administrators selflessly working to bring us efficient government? Well-targeted regulations ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Africa First!

    Igniting a Growth Revolution

    by Jakkie Cilliers ...
    What stops Africa, with its abundant natural resources, from capitalising on its boundless potential? Well-known Africa analyst Jakkie Cilliers uses 11 scenarios to unpack, in concrete terms, how the continent can ignite a growth revolution that will take millions out of poverty and into employment.Africa urgently needs much more rapid economic growth. Cilliers identifi es and models fundamental ... Read more

    $9.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clean Brexit

    Why Leaving the EU Still Makes Sense - Building a Post-Brexit Economy for All

    by Liam Halligan, Gerard Lyons ...
    UPDATED FOREWORD BY GISELA STUART AND UPDATED AFTERWORD BY JACOB REES-MOGGOn 23 June 2016, in the biggest ever vote in British history, 17.4 million people chose to leave the EU. So what does the future now hold after this momentous decision? What will life be like in Britain after we end our European marriage? Will Brexit precipitate the doom and gloom that many predict?Drawing on years of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus