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  • Reducing Global Poverty

    This is the first volume in an ambitious new series-"Patterns of Potential Human Progress"-inspired by the UN Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) and other initiatives to improve the global condition. The first and most fundamental of these goals-reducing poverty worldwide-is the focus of this book. Using the large-scale computer program called International Futures (IFs) developed over three ... Read more

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  • Islamic Finance as a Complex System

    New Insights

    There has been a rapid increase in the interest in the study of Islamic finance, resulting in a dramatic rise in financing since the beginning of the century. By the end of 2017 global industry assets had reached $2.4 trillion and were forecasted to reach $3.2 trillion by 2020, despite historic challenges to Islam itself at the same time. This collection of chapters provides key theoretical, ... Read more

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  • 21st Century African Development Strategies

    Facing the Challenges With Innovative Approaches

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book offers a broad and multidisciplinary guide to the economic, social and development challenges facing modern Africa. It seeks out innovative solutions to Africa’s development issues that look beyond the current policy landscapes and conventional methodologies. By tracking the diverse historical, economic and social trajectories of Africa, based on academic as well as deep personal ... Read more

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    Gerard Roland's new text, Development Economics, is the first undergraduate text to recognize the role of institutions in understanding development and growth. Through a series of chapters devoted to specific sets of institutions, Roland examines the effects of institutions on growth, property rights, market development, and the delivery of public goods and services and focuses. With the most ... Read more

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  • Currency Power

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    Why the dollar will remain the world's most powerful currencyMonetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political, going to the heart of the global balance of power. But what exactly is the relationship between currency and power, and what does it portend for the ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Development Economics

    Edited by M.R. Rosenzweig, Dani Rodrick ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

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  • The Welfare State Revisited

    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the ... Read more

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  • Development Economics Through The Decades: A Critical Look At Thirty Years Of The World Development Report

    by Yusuf. Shahid ...
    Since 1978, the World Bank's annual World Development Report (WDR) has provided in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on a specific and important aspect of international development from agriculture, the role of the state, economic growth, and labor to infrastructure, health, the environment, and poverty. In the process, it has become a highly influential publication that is consulted by ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
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  • Globalization And Growth: Implications For A Post-Crisis World

    *What were the causes of the financial and economic crises of 2008-2009?*What intellectual and policy mistakes prevented academics and policymakers from anticipating the crisis?*What is the future of financial regulation both domestic and international?*What role did global macroeconomic imbalances play in the run-up to the crisis?*What is the future of the export-led growth model and what are the ... Read more

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