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  • Real Estate in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean

    by Claudia Murray, Camilla Ween, Yadira Torres-Romero, Yazmin Ramirez ...
    Series series Routledge International Real Estate Markets Series
    This book examines real estate markets and urban development in Central America, Mexico and The Caribbean (CAMEC). It considers both residential and commercial real estate with a focus on industrial and hospitality sectors, infrastructure and logistics.The CAMEC region is besieged by complexity. Prone to natural disasters, and with the Mexico/US border constituting the largest human migration ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • The Dragon in the Room

    China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization

    by Kevin Gallagher, Roberto Porzecanski ...
    In the eyes of many, China's unprecedented economic rise has brought nothing but good news to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Indeed, China's growing appetite for primary products, and the ability of Latin America to supply that demand, has played a role in restoring growth in Latin America, both in the run-up to the global financial crisis and in its aftermath.The dragon in the ... Read more

    $22.79 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 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

  • Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South

    Seeking Sustainable Solutions

    Edited by Jan Bredenoord, Paul Van Lindert, Peer Smets ...
    The global increase in the number of slums calls for policies which improve the conditions of the urban poor, sustainably. This volume provides an extensive overview of current housing policies in Asia, Africa and Latin America and presents the facts and trends of recent housing policies. The chapters provide ideas and tools for pro-poor interventions with respect to the provision of land for ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Peru: Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group 2003-2009

    by World Bank ...
    This Peru Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group 2003-2009 is part of IEG?s country program evaluation series. To date IEG?s in-depth country evaluations have comprised IEG-WB Country Assistance Evaluations (CAEs) and IEG-IFC Country Impact Reviews (CIRs). Both the CAEs and CIRs have involved comprehensive evaluations of the respective institutions? activities in a country. In a pilot ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Economic Policy and Human Rights

    Holding Governments to Account

    by Sarah Gammage, Nursel Aydiner-Avsar, Lourdes Colinas, Alberto Serdan-Rosales, Gabriel Lara, James Heintz, Carlos Salas, Daniela Ramirez Camacho, Roberto Constantino, Kristina Parker ...
    Economic Policy and Human Rights presents a powerful critique of three decades of neoliberal economic policies, assessed from the perspective of human rights norms. In doing so, it brings together two areas of thought and action that have hitherto been separate: progressive economics concerned with promoting economic justice and human development; and human rights analysis and advocacy.Focussing ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The State of Labour

    The Global Financial Crisis and its Impact

    Edited by Sharit K. Bhowmik ...
    This book analyzes the adverse effects of globalization and liberalization — acutely manifest in the increased financialization of capital and the concomitant global financial crisis of 2008–09 — on the labour force, especially in the developing countries. Drawing upon case studies from several countries including India, Columbia, Malawi, Brazil and Thailand, it highlights the worsening plight of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development

    From neoliberalism to resource nationalism

    Edited by Paul A. Haslam, Pablo Heidrich ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Governments increased taxes and royalties on the resource sector, the nationalization of foreign firms returned to the mainstream economic policy agenda, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Structural Adjustment

    The SAPRI Report: The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis, Poverty and Inequality

    by Bloomsbury Publishing ...
    Structural adjustment programmes are the largest single cause of increased poverty, inequality and hunger in developing countries. This book is the most comprehensive, real-life assessment to date of the impacts of the liberalisation, deregulation, privatisation and austerity that constitute structural adjustment. It is the result of a unique five year collaboration among citizens' groups, ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Licensed larceny

    Infrastructure, financial extraction and the global South

    by Nicholas Hildyard ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    The growing wealth gap is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the rich. The provision of public services is one area which is increasingly being reconfigured to extract wealth upward to the one per cent, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • New Order and Progress

    Development and Democracy in Brazil

    by Ben Ross Schneider ...
    Ben Ross Schneider's volume, New Order and Progress takes a thorough look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspective of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. Collectively, the chapters offer sobering insight into why Brazil has not been the rising economic star of the BRIC that many predicted it would be, but also documents the gains that Brazil has made ... Read more

    $27.59 USD