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Rethinking Development eBook Series

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  • Southern-Led Development Finance

    Solutions from the Global South

    Edited by Diana Barrowclough, Kevin P. Gallagher, Richard Kozul-Wright ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Southern-Led Development Finance examines some of the innovative new south-south financial arrangements and institutions that have emerged in recent years, as countries from the Global South seek to transform their economies and to shield themselves from global economic turbulence.Even before the Covid-19 crisis, it was clear to many that the global economy needed a reset and a massive increase in ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • America for Sale

    Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty

    by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. ...
    A RESOUNDING CALL TO DEFEND AMERICA'S SOVEREIGNTY AND SAVE OUR NATION FROM GLOBAL ECONOMIC TAKEOVER -- FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE OBAMA NATION AND THE LATE GREAT USABetween President George W. Bush's "new world order" and the unprecedented governmental growth and massive redistribution of wealth under President Barack Obama, the United States risks losing the greatest ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Mozambique Rising: Building a New Tomorrow

    by Doris C. Ms. Ross, Victor Duarte Lledo, Alex Mr. Segura-Ubiergo, Yuan Mr. Xiao, Iyabo Masha, Alun H. Mr. Thomas, Keiichiro Mr. Inui ...
    This publication highlights Mozambiques remarkably strong growth over the two decades since the end of the civil war in 1992, as well as the major challenges that remain for the country to rise out of poverty and further its economic development. Chapters explore such topics as the role of megaprojects and their relationship to jobs and growth; infrastructure and public investment; Mozambique's ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Planning, Connecting, and Financing Cities — Now

    Priorities for City Leaders

    by The World Bank ...
    This report provides Mayors and other policymakers with a policy framework and diagnostic tools to anticipate and implement strategies that can avoid their cities from locking into irreversible physical and social structures. At the core of the policy framework are the three main dimensions of urban development. • Planning— where the focus is on making land transactions easier, and making land use ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Regulating Infrastructure

    Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion

    by José A. Gómez-Ibáñez ...
    This wide-ranging study of urban infrastructure " offers a series of fascinating arguments" in favor of market-oriented approaches to regulation ( Times Higher Education Supplement).In the 1980s and '90s, many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities—such as gas, telephones, and highways—with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Political Economy of Pipelines

    A Century of Comparative Institutional Development

    by Jeff D. Makholm ...
    With global demand for energy poised to increase by more than half in the next three decades, the supply of safe, reliable, and reasonably priced gas and oil will continue to be of fundamental importance to modern economies. Central to this supply are the pipelines that transport this energy. And while the fundamental economics of the major pipeline networks are the same, the differences in their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $14.99 USD

  • Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis

    Edited by José Antonio Alonso, José Antonio Ocampo ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt. While productive in and of themselves, these solutions were effective because they were coordinated internationally and were matched with sweeping global financial reforms. ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Fiscal Monitor, April 2018

    Capitalizing on Good Times

    by International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept. ...
    The April 2018 edition of Fiscal Monitor is focused on two broad themes: the burden of high global debt and the opportunities and challenges of digital government. Chapter 1 explores how strong and broad-based growth provides an opportunity to rebuild fiscal buffers now, improve government balances, and anchor public debt. One concern is the surge in global debt, which reached the record peak of ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Remittance Markets in Africa

    by Mohapatra,Sanket; Ratha,Dilip ...
    Remittances sent by African migrants have become an important source of external finance for countries in the Sub-Saharan African region. In many African countries these flows are larger than foreign direct investment and portfolio debt and equity flows. In some cases they are similar in size to official aid from multilateral and bilateral donors. Remittance markets in Africa however remain less ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Race to the Next Income Frontier

    How Senegal and Other Low-Income Countries Can Reach the Finish Line

    by Ali M. Mansoor, Salifou Issoufou, Daouda Sembene ...
    Economic transformation and diversification require solutions that take account of the political economy of reform. This book explores the process of economic transformation, using Senegal as an example. Sound macroeconomic and fiscal policies are prerequisites for achieving this kind of transformation, but these policies need to include the appropriate industrial policies and good economic ... Read more

    $14.99 USD