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  • Fragility and Conflict

    On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty

    de Paul Corral, Alexander Irwin, Nandini Krishnan, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Tara Vishwanath ...
    Fragility and conflict pose a critical threat to the global goal of ending extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2015, successful development strategies reduced the proportion of the world's people living in extreme poverty from 36 to 10 percent. But in many fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS), poverty is stagnating or getting worse. The number of people living in proximity to conflict has ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Uneven Odds, Unequal Outcomes

    Inequality of Opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa

    de Nandini Krishnan, Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Ambar Narayan, Sailesh Tiwari, Tara Vishwanath ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Poverty
    Perceptions of eroding living standards and low life satisfaction are widespread in the Middle East and North Africa region today, along with pessimism about prospects for economic mobility. Conventional measures of economic well-being offer little in the way of explanation – in most countries in the region, extreme poverty is low and declining and economic inequality is lower than in other parts ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Fragility and Conflict

    On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty

    de Paul Corral, Alexander Irwin, Nandini Krishnan, Mahler ...
    Fragility and conflict pose a critical threat to the global goal of ending extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2015, successful development strategies reduced the proportion of the world’s people living in extreme poverty from 36 to 10 percent. But in many fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS), poverty is stagnating or getting worse. The number of people living in proximity to conflict has ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • Africa

    Why Economists Get It Wrong

    de Morten Jerven ...
    Series series African Arguments
    'A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.'Foreign AffairsNot so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the potential for economic growth across many of its countries.What, then, is the truth behind Africa's growth, or lack of it? In this provocative book, ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Equality For Women: Where Do We Stand?

    de Buvinic Mayra; Morrison Andrew R.; Sjoblom Mirja; Ofosu-Amaah A. Waafas ...
    Upon signing the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the international community committed itself to eight development goals with timebound targets and measurable indicators. The third of these eight goals was to "promote gender equality and empower women". The third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) in the Millennium Declaration has spurred national and international efforts to improve women's ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Handbook of Development Economics

    Edición de M.R. Rosenzweig, Dani Rodrick ...
    Series Libro 5 - Handbooks in Economics
    What guidance does academic research really provide to economic policy development? The critical and analytical surveys in this volume investigate links between policies and outcomes by surveying work from broad macroeconomic policies to interventions in microfinance. Asserting that there are no universal correspondences between policies and outcomes, contributors demonstrate instead that only an ... Leer más

    $148.99 USD

  • International Migration, Economic Development & Policy

    de Schiff Maurice; Ozden Caglar ...
    International migration has become a central element of international relations and global integration due to its rapidly increasing economic, social, and cultural impact in both source and destination countries. This book provides new evidence on the impact of migration and remittances on several development indicators, including innovative thinking about the nexus between migration and birth ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Banking on Beijing

    The Aims and Impacts of China's Overseas Development Program

    de Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks, Austin Strange, Michael J. Tierney ...
    China is now the lender of first resort for much of the developing world, but Beijing has fueled speculation among policymakers, scholars, and journalists by shrouding its grant-giving and lending activities in secrecy. Introducing a systematic and transparent method of tracking Chinese development projects around the world, this book explains Beijing's motives and analyzes the intended and ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Data Collection in Fragile States

    Innovations from Africa and Beyond

    Edición de Johannes Hoogeveen, Utz Pape ...
    ‘This open access book addresses an urgent issue on which little organized information exists. It reflects experience in Africa but is highly relevant to other fragile states as well.’—Constantine Michalopoulos, John Hopkins University, USA and former Director of Economic Policy and Co-ordination at the World BankFragile countries face a triple data challenge. Up-to-date information is needed to ... Leer más

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  • A Thousand Cuts

    Social Protection in the Age of Austerity

    de Alexandros Kentikelenis, Thomas Stubbs ...
    The dominant policy response to economic crises over the past four decades has been the introduction of austerity--a mix of budget cuts and reforms to downsize the role of the state. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been the world's lender of last resort and leading advocate of austerity, and has been consistently chastised by policymakers and civil society for the consequences of its ... Leer más

    $25.69 USD

  • Clarity of Responsibility, Accountability, and Corruption

    de Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, Margit Tavits ...
    Corruption is a significant problem for democracies throughout the world. Even the most democratic countries constantly face the threat of corruption and the consequences of it at the polls. Why are some governments more corrupt than others, even after considering cultural, social, and political characteristics? In Clarity of Responsibility, Accountability, and Corruption, the authors argue that ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Poverty in a Rising Africa

    de Kathleen Beegle, Luc Christiaensen, Andrew Dabalen, Gaddis ...
    Perceptions of Africa have changed dramatically. Viewed as a continent of wars, famines and entrenched poverty in the late 1990s, there is now a focus on “Africa rising†? and an “African 21st century.†? Two decades of unprecedented economic growth in Africa should have brought substantial improvements in well-being. Whether or not they did, remains unclear given the poor quality of the data, the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD