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  • Globalizing Patient Capital

    The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

    by Stephen B. Kaplan ...
    China's overseas financing is a distinct form of patient capital that marshals the country's vast domestic resources to create commercial opportunities internationally. Its long-term risk tolerance and lack of policy conditionality has allowed developing economies to sidestep the fiscal austerity tendencies of Western markets and multilaterals. Employing statistical tests and extensive field ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America

    by Stephen B. Kaplan ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    In an age of financial globalization, are markets and democracy compatible? For developing countries, the dramatic internationalization of financial markets over the last two decades deepens tensions between politics and markets. Notwithstanding the rise of left-leaning governments in regions like Latin America, macroeconomic policies often have a neoliberal appearance. When is austerity imposed ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

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  • Failed

    What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy

    by Mark Weisbrot, Mark Weisbrot ...
    Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Why did the vast majority of low- and middle-income countries suffer a prolonged economic slowdown in the last two decades of the 20th century? What was the role of the International Monetary Fund in these economic failures? Why was Latin ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Job Creation In Latin America And The Caribbean: Recent Trends And Policy Challenges

    by Pages Carmen; Pierre Gaelle; Scarpetta Stefano ...
    This book analyzes recent labor market trends in Latin American countries and the factors that underlie the failure to create more and more productive and rewarding jobs, a failure with substantial political and social costs. The authors analyze how growth and job creation in the region's economies compare with other emerging countries, the impact of job creation and destruction on productivity ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Washington Consensus Reconsidered

    Towards a New Global Governance

    Edited by Narcís Serra, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue
    This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyar and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus. Covering a wide range of issues from macro-stabilization to trade and the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Financial Crises, 1929 to the Present, Second Edition

    by Sara Hsu ...
    This fascinating volume offers a comprehensive synthesis of the events, causes and outcomes of the major financial crises from 1929 to the present day. Beginning with an overview of the global financial system, Sara Hsu presents both theoretical and empirical evidence to explain the roots of financial crises and financial instability in general. She then provides a thorough breakdown of a number ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The China Triangle

    Latin America's China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus

    by Kevin P. Gallagher ...
    Since 1980, China has evolved from a poor and mostly rural society into one of the largest economies in the world. As it grew into a major industrial power, it demanded enormous amounts of steel for new factories and cities, copper for electronic wires, petroleum for cars and manufacturing plants, and soybeans and cattle to feed its workers. By the 1990s, many Latin American countries were riding ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The State Of State Reform In Latin America

    by Lora Eduardo ...
    Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or "second generation" reforms. The State of State Reform in Latin America reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The IMF and Global Financial Crises

    Phoenix Rising?

    by Joseph P. Joyce ...
    The IMF's response to the global crisis of 2008–9 marked a significant change from its past policies. The Fund provided relatively large amounts of credit quickly with limited conditions and accepted the use of capital controls. This book traces the evolution of the IMF's actions to promote international financial stability from the Bretton Woods era through the most recent crisis. The analysis ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Unexpected Outcomes

    How Emerging Economies Survived the Global Financial Crisis

    Edited by Leslie Elliott Armijo, Saori N. Katada, Carol Wise ...
    This volume documents and explains the remarkable resilience of emerging market nations in East Asia and Latin America when faced with the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. Their quick bounceback from the crisis marked a radical departure from the past, such as when the 1982 debt shocks produced a decade-long recession in Latin America or when the Asian financial crisis dramatically slowed ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Globalization, Wages, And The Quality Of Jobs: Five Country Studies

    by Robertson Raymond; Brown Drusilla; Pierre Gaelle; Sanchez-Puerta Maria Laura ...
    Since the early 1990s, most developing economies have become more integrated with the world's economy. Trade and foreign investment barriers have been progressively lifted and international trade agreements signed. These reforms have led to important changes in the structures of these economies. The labor markets have adjusted to these major changes, and workers were required to adapt to them in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • From Summits to Solutions

    Innovations in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

    Edited by Hiroshi Kato, Raj M. Desai, Homi Kharas ...
    A positive agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen "Sustainable Development Goals," to be achieved by 2030. Each of the goals-in such areas as education and health care -is laudable in and of itself, and governments and organizations are working hard on them. But so far there is ... Read more

    $42.89 USD