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  • Exploring Universal Basic Income

    A Guide to Navigating Concepts, Evidence, and Practices

    Edited by Ugo Gentilini, Margaret Grosh, Jamele Rigolini, Ruslan Yemtsov ...
    Universal basic income (UBI) is emerging as one of the most hotly debated issues in development and social protection policy. But what are the features of UBI? What is it meant to achieve? How do we know, and what don't we know, about its performance? What does it take to implement it in practice? Drawing from global evidence, literature, and survey data, this volume provides a framework to ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Left Behind

    Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Renos Vakis, Jamele Rigolini, Leonardo Lucchetti ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughout their lives. These are the region´s chronically poor, who have remained so despite unprecedented inroads against poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean since the turn of the century. Left Behind: Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Latin American Entrepreneurs

    Many Firms but Little Innovation

    by Daniel Lederman, Julian Messina, Samuel Pienknagura, Jamele Rigolini ...
    Series series World Bank Latin American and Caribbean Studies
    Entrepreneurship is a fundamental driver of growth, development, and job creation. While Latin America and the Caribbean has a wealth of entrepreneurs, firms in the region, compared to those in other regions, are small in size and less likely to grow or innovate. Productivity growth has remained lackluster for decades, including during the recent commodity boom. Enhancing the creation of good jobs ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Left Behind

    Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Renos Vakis, Jamele Rigolini, Leonardo Lucchetti ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughout their lives. These are the region´s chronically poor, who have remained so despite unprecedented inroads against poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean since the turn of the century. Left Behind: Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Exploring Universal Basic Income

    A Guide to Navigating Concepts, Evidence, and Practices

    Edited by Ugo Gentilini, Margaret Grosh, Jamele Rigolini, Ruslan Yemtsov ...
    Universal basic income (UBI) is emerging as one of the most hotly debated issues in development and social protection policy. But what are the features of UBI? What is it meant to achieve? How do we know, and what don’t we know, about its performance? What does it take to implement it in practice? Drawing from global evidence, literature, and survey data, this volume provides a framework to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class

    by Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Julian Messina, Jamele Rigolini, Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva, Maria Ana Lugo, Renos Vakis, Luis Felipe Ló, Renos pez-Calva, Vakis ...
    Series series Latin America and Caribbean Studies
    After decades of stagnation, the size of Latin America's middle class recently expanded to the point where, for the first time ever, the number of people in poverty is equal to the size of the middle class. This volume investigates the nature, determinants and possible consequences of this remarkable process of social transformation. We propose an original definition of the middle class, tailor ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Latin American Entrepreneurs

    Many Firms but Little Innovation

    by Daniel Lederman, Julian Messina, Samuel Pienknagura, Jamele Rigolini ...
    Series series Latin America and Caribbean Studies
    Entrepreneurship -- manifested in the entry of new firms or products into new markets, or substantial improvements in technological capacity or process innovation by incumbent firms -- is widely considered to be an important ingredient for long term economic development. This report argues that entrepreneurship is also a source of employment generation, export growth, and resilience during ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • World Development Report 2014

    Risk and Opportunity - Managing Risk for Development

    by World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    The last 25 years have witnessed unprecedented changes around the world—many of them for the better. In all continents, numerous countries have embarked on a path of international integration, economic reform, technological modernization, and democratic participation. As result, economies that had been stagnant for decades are growing, people who had suffered deprivation for generations are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Innovation Economics

    by Robert D. Atkinson, Stephen J. Ezell ...
    This important book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way, and while other nations are making support for technology and innovation a central tenet of their economic strategies and policies, America lacks a robust innovation policy. What does this portend? Robert Atkinson and Stephen Ezell, widely respected economic thinkers, report on ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • What We Owe Each Other

    A New Social Contract for a Better Society

    by Minouche Shafik ...
    From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • globalization

    n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job

    by Judd Kahn, Bruce C. Greenwald ...
    In Globalization, authors Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn cut through the myths surrounding globalization and look more closely at its real impact, presenting a more accurate picture of the present status of globalization and its future consequences. Page by page, they uncover the real facts about globalization and answer the most important questions it raises, including: Will globalization increase ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • The Welfare State Revisited

    Edited by José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    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

    $71.99 USD