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Directions in Development eBook Series

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  • Open and Nimble

    Finding Stable Growth in Small Economies

    by Daniel Lederman, Justin T. Lesniak ...
    Series series Directions in Development
    Does economic size matter for economic development outcomes? If so are current policies adequately addressing the role of size in the development process? Using working age population as a proxy for country size, Open and Nimble, systematically analyzes what makes small economies unique. Small economies are not necessarily prone to underdevelopment and in fact can achieve very high income levels. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Singapore: a Case Study in Rapid Development

    by Kenneth Mr. Bercuson ...
    Series Book 119 - Occasional Papers
    Since attaining independence in 1965 Singapore has experienced exceptionally rapid growth, low inflation, and a healthy balance of payments. This paper reviews Singapore's economic development from a long-term perspective and examines some of the factors that have contributed to the sustained rapid growth ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • What's Next?: Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the World Economy

    by David Hale, Lyric Hughes Hale ...

    $24.59 USD

  • Currency Unions

    by Alberto Alesina, Robert J. Barro ...
    Currency Unions reviews the traditional case for flexible exchange rates and "countercyclical"—that is, expansionary during recessions and contractionary in booms—monetary policy, and shows how flexible exchange rate regimes can better insulate the economy from such real disturbances as terms-of-trade shocks. The book also looks at the pitfalls of flexible exchange rates—and why fixed rates, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dance of the Trillions

    Developing Countries and Global Finance

    by David Lubin ...
    Series series Insights: Critical Thinking on International Affairs
    In Dance of the Trillions, David Lubin tells the story of what makes money flow from high-income countries to lower-income ones; what makes it flow out again; and how developing countries have sought protection against the volatility of international capital flows. The book traces an arc from the 1970s, when developing countries first gained access to international financial markets, to the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Regional Economic Outlook, Sub-Saharan Africa, October 2010

    by International Monetary Fund. African Dept. ...
    Series series Regional Economic Outlook
    The October 2010 Regional Economic Outlook features: (i) an overview of economic developments and prospects in sub-Saharan Africa; (ii) an analytical assessment of how monetary policy changes are transmitted through the region's economies; and (iii) a study of why growth rates in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) have lagged behind other parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The overview ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Currency Conflict and Trade Policy

    A New Strategy for the United States

    by C. Fred Bergsten, Joseph Gagnon ...
    Conflicts over currency valuations are a recurrent feature of the modern global economy. To strengthen their international competitiveness, many countries resort to buying foreign currencies to make their exports cheaper and their imports more expensive. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, for example, China's currency manipulation practices were so flagrant that they produced a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Sustaining Economic Growth in Asia

    Edited by Jérémie Cohen-Setton, Thomas Helbling, Adam Posen, Changyong Rhee ...
    Economic growth, inflation, and interest rates have declined in Asia, just as they have in the United States and Europe. Sustaining Economic Growth in Asia explores the relevance to several Asian economies of the diagnosis known as “secular stagnation.” Leading experts on the region discuss the fiscal and monetary policy challenges of reviving growth without generating domestic financial ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • World Economic Situation and Prospects 2024

    by Department of Economic and Social Affairs ...
    Series series World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP)
    The 2024 edition of the United Nations’ World Economic Situation and Prospects report comes amid stark global economic inequalities and high geopolitical tensions. While rich economies have largely bounced back from the COVID-19 pandemic, developing economies have lost ground. Many are drowning in debt, with more than a third at risk of crisis. Investment in climate action and sustainable ... Read more

    $40.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Public Debt Sustainability

    International Perspectives

    by Xavier Debrun, Pablo Guidotti, Lars Jonung, Carlos Newland, Emilio Ocampo, Jan-Egbert Sturm, Steve H. Hanke, Fredrik Ng Andersson, Charles Paul Blahous0, James C. Capretta1, Vera Z. Eichenauer2, Lars P. Feld3, Norbert J. Michel4, Wolf Heinrich Reuter5, Thomas R. Saving6, Kurt Couchman7, John Merrifield8, Barry Poulson0 ...
    As countries recover from the coronavirus pandemic, they are confronted with an even more challenging debt crisis. Xavier Debrun argues in the foreword that in deciding where we go from here that there is no longer a consensus regarding the optimum design and enforcement of fiscal rules. Rather we must address a series of questions and challenges to the conventional wisdom. This book provides an ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Africa's Lions

    Growth Traps and Opportunities for Six African Economies

    Edited by Haroon Bhorat, Finn Tarp ...
    Examining the economic forces that will shape Africa's future.Africa’s Lions examines the economic growth experiences of six fast growing and/or economically dominant African countries. Expert African researchers offer unique perspectives into the challenges and issues in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and South Africa.Despite a growing body of research on African economies, very ... Read more

    $31.59 USD

  • Growth and Policy in Developing Countries

    A Structuralist Approach

    by Codrina Rada, Lance Taylor, José Antonio Ocampo ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that affect an economy's strength and stability, the authors identify the problems that have long frustrated ... Read more

    $35.99 USD