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  • The Future of Work in Africa

    Harnessing the Potential of Digital Technologies for All

    Edited by Jieun Choi, Mark A. Dutz, Zainab Usman ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    This companion report to the World Development Report (WDR) 2019: The Changing Nature of Work addresses the key themes of creating productive jobs and addressing the needs of those left behind. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Jobs of Tomorrow

    Technology, Productivity, and Prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Mark A. Dutz, Rita K. Almeida, Truman G. Packard ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Science, Technology, and Innovation
    While adoption of new technologies is understood to enhance long-term growth and average per-capita incomes, its impact on lower-skilled workers is more complex and merits clarification. Concerns abound that advanced technologies developed in high-income countries would inexorably lead to job losses of lower-skilled, less well-off workers and exacerbate inequality. Conversely, there are ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Future of Work in Africa

    Harnessing the Potential of Digital Technologies for All

    Edited by Jieun Choi, Mark A. Dutz, Zainab Usman ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    The Future of Work in Africa focuses on the key themes of creating productive jobs and addressing the needs of those left behind. It highlights how global trends, especially the adoption of digital technologies, may change the nature of work in Sub-Saharan Africa by creating new opportunities and challenges. It argues that, contrary to global fears of worker displacement by new technologies, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    Enduring Strategies for Turbulent Times

    by Pankaj Ghemawat ...
    What Globalization Now Means for Your BusinessExecutives can no longer base their strategies on the assumption that globalization will continue to advance steadily. But how should they respond to the growing pressures against globalization? And what can businesses do to control their destinies in these times of uncertainty?In The New Global Road Map, Pankaj Ghemawat separates fact from fiction by ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Efficiency, Finance, and Varieties of Industrial Policy

    Guiding Resources, Learning, and Technology for Sustained Growth

    Edited by Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    Industrial policy, once relegated to resource allocation, technological improvements, and the modernization of industries, should be treated as a serious component of sustainability and developmental economics. A rich set of complimentary institutions, shared behavioral norms, and public policies have sustained economic growth from Britain's industrial revolution onwards. This volume revisits the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Confronting Dystopia

    The New Technological Revolution and the Future of Work

    Edited by Eva Paus ...
    In Confronting Dystopia**, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income**. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and robotics for both the Global North and the Global South, they move beyond diagnostics to seek solutions that offer better lives for all. Their ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Industrial Policy Revolution I

    The Role of Government Beyond Ideology

    by Justin Lin Yifu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume is the result of the 2012 International Economic Association's series of roundtables on the theme of Industrial Policy. The first, 'New Thinking on Industrial Policy,' was hosted by the World Bank in Washington, D.C, and the second, 'New Thinking on Industrial Policy: Implications for Africa,' was held in Pretoria, South Africa. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Power of Creative Destruction

    Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

    by Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin, Simon Bunel ...
    Translated by Jodie Cohen-Tanugi ...
    Hayek Book Prize FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearFrom one of the world’s leading economists and his coauthors, a cutting-edge analysis of what drives economic growth and a blueprint for prosperity under capitalism.Crisis seems to follow crisis. Inequality is rising, growth is stagnant, the environment is suffering, and the COVID-19 pandemic has ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Global Marketing

    Practical Insights and International Analysis

    by Carlyle Farrell ...
    This new textbook introduces students to the essential concepts, theories and perspectives of Global Marketing and these are supported by real-world case studies from North America, Europe and the emerging markets of China, India and Latin America. These emerging markets are given balanced coverage alongside developed markets and the text also includes a dedicated chapter on emerging markets ... Read more

    $119.69 USD

  • Creating a Learning Society

    A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bruce C. Greenwald ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    "A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D."—Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American DemocracySince its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Innovation Policy: A Guide For Developing Countries

    by World Bank ...
    Innovation in all its forms, particularly technological innovation, has become a crucial driver of growth, enhancing competitiveness and increasing social well-being in all economies of the world. In a broad and diversified sense, innovation comprises not only the creation of new technology, but even more important, it includes the diffusion and use of products, processes, and practices that are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Made in Africa

    Learning to Compete in Industry

    by Carol Newman, John Page, John Rand ...
    The role of industry in low income countries is important. Industry is good for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. All of these factors depend on the size and the rate of growth of industry. Africa doesn’t have enough industry to reach the Sustainable Development Goals for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. Africa’s share of global manufacturing has fallen from about three ... Read more

    $31.99 USD